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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".

Oct 9, 2026

33:18
If 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?
33:33
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.
33:45
That all crises are the same.
33:47
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.
33:56
You change the numbers, the years, and you just literally do the same as what you did last year.
34:01
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.
34:14
And so there is, there is a, um, flash appeal process every time you have a quick onset, uh, crisis.

32 MINS LATER

66:51
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.

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