KUNO presents a new series of Covid Café’s on specific countries: Afghanistan, Colombia, and Zimbabwe. What are the specific challenges in these countries? What innovative solutions did humanitarians develop? How do local civil society organizations and international NGOs cope? Cordaid & KUNO invite you to the online Covid-Café #6 on Afghanistan on Thursday 29 October, […]

Though the corona-epidemic is anything but over, pioneers are already looking beyond. How do we rebuild economies worldwide that have been ravaged by the virus and subsequent lockdown measures? How do we prevent COVID-19 from becoming a driving force behind an unprecedented rise in global inequality? How do we protect quality of life worldwide? Part […]

Approximately 573 million people still lack adequate access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 calls for action to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all by 2030. The Startup Tuesday - "Impact Insights", edition is not necessarily focused on a startup, but rather on innovation in general. […]

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has now entered a ‘Decade of Action’ meant to accelerate progress towards sustainable development that would ‘leave no one behind’. Yet, at out the outset of this 10-year period, the 2030 Agenda is in jeopardy. With the majority of the World’s poor living in fragile and conflict affected contexts […]

The Sphere Handbook is the oldest initiative in the field of humanitarian standards and has recently been updated. The Sphere Standards have been field-tested over twenty years, updates ensure it remains fit for purpose in a changing world. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and KUNO, the Platform for Humanitarian Knowledge Exchange in The Netherlands, invite […]

Annual Meeting of the ROYAL NETHERLANDS SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW The worldwide use of the internet seems to have a natural fit with both public and private international law. However, while the Internet stands for ‘transboundary’, international law is primarily based on ‘territoriality’. Key concepts that come into play then are state sovereignty and the […]

KUNO presents a new series of Covid-Café’s on specific countries: Afghanistan, Colombia, Zimbabwe and Libya. What are the specific challenges in these countries? What innovative solutions did humanitarians develop? How do local civil society organizations and international NGOs cope? ZOA and KUNO invite you to the online Covid-Café #7 on Colombia on Thursday 12 November, […]

Learn the basics of geospatial data analytics from the GIS Specialists, Elke Sauter and Federico Franciamore, at Space4Good, a social enterprise based in The Netherlands. Having started their journey at the European Space Agency Business Incubation Center in The Netherlands, Space4Good grew the team with impact-driven data scientists, remote sensing & GIS experts, software developers […]

Partos will kick-off its new Community of Practice (CoP) on Shifting the Power through an online event. In this CoP we aim to find practical solutions for achieving more balanced power relations in international civil society partnerships for development. The CoP will be facilitated by The Spindle, the Partos innovation platform. This CoP will seek […]

Technology, innovation and humanitarian action. We are putting a spotlight on three entrepreneurs from the Humanity Hub community at this next edition of Startup Tuesday The Hague! Start-up Tuesday is a re-occuring event to inspire and connect with like-minded people in and around The Hague. This series of events is a collaboration among innovative hubs that aim […]

DCHI and Netherlands Red Cross will present you academic insights combined with a great virtual networking opportunity. To highlight and explore the added value of cooperation between humanitarian organisations and private actors and knowledge institutes, DCHI and Netherlands Red Cross invite you to join this virtual session. We aim to co-design solutions for wicked problems […]

ICCO & KUNO invite you to the online Covid-Café #6 on Zimbabwe on Thursday 26 November, 14:00 CET. Zimbabwe Zimbabwe is hampered by an acute food crisis and a government that uses the pandemic to further crackdown civil rights (with penalties up to 20 years prison for providing ‘false’ info). How does Corona affect a […]

On Thursday 26 November, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut will host its Sixth Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture. We are delighted to welcome Professor Andrew Murray who will join us online to deliver his lecture ‘Almost human: law and human agency in the time of artificial intelligence.’ Register now to attend this highly relevant and thought-provoking event. Artificial […]

During the weekend of 27, 28 and 29 November the third edition of the Hackathon for Goodwill take place. This edition will be the first online edition. The Hackathon for Good 2020 is hosted by the city of The Hague and organised by The Hague Tech, in close collaboration with the Hague’s innovation ecosystems consisting […]

December 2020 marks the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules). As we approach this milestone, we consider progress – and delay – in making the Rules a reality for all women in contact with the criminal […]

Youth for Peace (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and the Youth Peace Initiative (Netherlands) have joined forces to organise a very interesting panel discussion in which we will be exploring the digitalisation of peacebuilding - a hot topic in this era of zoom meetings and online conferences!What is online peacebuilding?What does the future of peacebuilding look like?How […]

A two-part online course offered by AI Lab One for executives and decisions makers. Understand what AI can already do for your industry and business! Artificial Intelligence has the potential to transform and optimize an organization’s internal operations and can create new and better services. 72% of surveyed senior executives agree that AI will be […]

This webinar will reflect on experiences from the Dutch project "Promoting integrity and good governance in the public sector in Ukraine". Ukraine has been undergoing major reforms in recent years, including tackling corruption. This project has contributed to promoting integrity and anti-corruption measures in Ukrainian public institutions. We will talk to Dutch integrity expert Henk […]

The year 2020 has brought new and existing challenges to the forefront of humanitarian aid, that calls for working together more than ever! Both DCHI and ImpactCity strongly believe in the power of collaborating across different sectors, and so have joined forces to award €10,000 to the best humanitarian challenge! During this Startup Tuesday edition, […]