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Damian Lilly
Independent humanitarian consultant based in Maputo, Mozambique and former UN protection chief, co-author of the HPG report "How to Reform the Humanitarian Programme Cycle".
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Oct 9, 2026
118. Useful fiction?
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33:18If we then move on to, to the planning side of things, how do we then move from PIN targeted population, prioritized calculation to actually doing something about it? What's, what's the mechanism there in the HPC?
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33:33Damian LillyGUEST
So I think we, in the paper, what we do, we go into, as you say, the, the planning part of it, and I think the starting point from what we've seen is it's very much a one-size-fits-all approach to planning.
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33:47Damian LillyGUEST
There's a set template that you put the numbers in, and actually generally what happens is you just look at the last version, you pretty much produce the same.
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33:56Damian LillyGUEST
You change the numbers, the years, and you just literally do the same as what you did last year.
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34:01Damian LillyGUEST
And, uh, with these one-year cycles, um, you never really, uh, establish a planning framework that is really tailored to the context and the different kinds of crises that we see.
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34:14Damian LillyGUEST
And so there is, there is a, um, flash appeal process every time you have a quick onset, uh, crisis.
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Mike PearsonGUEST
We know that, but here are the linkages we'll make for long-term development, for social protection systems, w-with, with government, with mutual aid, with whatever those other systems might be." So we understand the whole picture, we give visibility to it, and, and, and make those linkages.