Women, displaced by Jowhar floods and walking with what possessions they can carry, arrive in a steady trickle at an IDP camp in Somalia.
"Crises are increasingly protracted, with populations displaced for 17 years, on average, and humanitarian needs at levels not seen since the end of the Second World War. ... For those whose livelihoods and lives are at risk on the ground, the distinction between humanitarian assistance, development support and building peace is meaningless. Those challenges affect people's lives in a unified and simultaneous manner - our response will never be adequate if fragmented."
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The Joint Steering Committee to Advance Humanitarian and Development Collaboration (JSC) is a critical mechanism to promote greater coherence of humanitarian and development action in crises and transitions to long-term sustainable development and in reducing vulnerabilities to build resilience.
The New Way of Working (NWOW) calls on humanitarian and development actors to work collaboratively together, based on their comparative advantages, towards ‘collective outcomes’ that reduce need, risk and vulnerability over multiple years.