IHP Showcases 30 Years of Impact at HNPW 2025
The International Humanitarian Partnership marked a significant milestone at this year’s Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW) by celebrating its 30th anniversary. The event provided an ideal platform for IHP to highlight three decades of operational support to humanitarian actors around the globe, underlining the enduring relevance of its mission: “Helping the Helpers.”
With a dedicated session and a powerful video retrospective, IHP brought together current and former leaders, UN partners, and operational experts to reflect on the network’s evolution, innovations, and future ambitions. Among the speakers were representatives from UN OCHA/UNDAC, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and IHP itself.
The session emphasized IHP’s unique capacity to rapidly deploy scalable logistical solutions—such as offices, accommodation, and base camps—in support of UN missions during crises. It also highlighted successful past deployments, such as the 2024 mission to Farchana, Chad, where IHP established a container-based operational hub for UN staff in response to OCHA’s request, with IOM serving as the hub manager.
A recurring theme was IHP’s commitment to practical collaboration and technical exchange. “Our strength lies in the trust we’ve built—not just between nations, but between professionals who speak the same operational language,” noted one speaker. The base camp working group, in particular, was credited for years of quietly advancing standards and interoperability, ensuring that humanitarian responders in the field have dignified, functional working and living conditions.
Throughout the HNPW week, IHP also engaged with key partners in the logistics, emergency response, and civil protection communities, including through participating in side events focused on innovation, interoperability, and sustainability in humanitarian infrastructure.
Looking forward, IHP used the anniversary as an opportunity to reaffirm its role in enabling effective humanitarian response through timely, tailored support. With climate emergencies, displacement, and complex crises on the rise, the need for ready-to-deploy support modules and trusted inter-agency cooperation has never been greater.
The anniversary reception, hosted by Luxembourg as IHP’s current chair, brought together partners, friends, and field veterans to honor the past and prepare for the future. As one attendee summed it up: “For 30 years, IHP has quietly made missions possible. Here’s to the next 30.”