ResilienceLinks Webinar | Achieving Coherence: The HDP Nexus
Learn about the humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus from USAID and global partner representatives.
Unprecedented and compounded crises, shocks and stresses are impacting the populations USAID and its partners serve. Working together across different types of assistance is more important than ever before for addressing immediate needs and the root causes of our greatest development challenges. Humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) coherence offers a critical step forward in moving beyond silos, prioritizing a common agenda and enhancing coordination across types of assistance in a way that puts local communities and people front and center.
USAID's Resilience Leadership Council recently released a new product titled "Programming Considerations for Humanitarian-Development-Peace Coherence: A Note for USAID’s Implementing Partners". This document highlights USAID’s core principles on HDP coherence and shares both what USAID has learned in its pursuit of HDP coherence as well as promising practices and ideas identified by its partners. It focuses on day-to-day programming approaches, decisions and routines that it hopes can directly inspire partner approaches.
Watch the webinar recording here.
Speaker Information
- Jessie Anderson | Senior Conflict Advisor | USAID
- Jessie leads the Center for Resilience's work on conflict integration and humanitarian-development-peace coherence. She has fifteen years of aid experience. Previously at USAID, Jessie was a Democracy Fellow in conflict, fragility and peacebuilding. Prior to joining USAID, she founded a startup supporting post-conflict aid efforts, consulted for aid organizations, researched peace operations as a fellow at the Stimson center and coordinated events on the future of humanitarian aid at The George Washington University.
- Alexious Butler | Deputy Acting Assistant Administrator | USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security
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Alexious serves as an Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security. She is a career USAID foreign service officer. Prior to this role, Ms. Butler served as one of USAID’s Development Diplomats in Residence at Morehouse College from June 2020 through September 2021. In 2019, she completed a four-year assignment in the Haiti Mission, where she served initially as the Democracy, Rights and Governance (DRG) Office Chief and then served as Deputy Mission Director (DMD). Her DMD portfolio included the Offices of Foreign Disaster Assistance, Economic Growth and Agriculture, Food for Peace, and DRG. Prior to her Haiti assignments, Ms. Butler served as a DRG Officer in South Sudan, Bangladesh, Iraq and Afghanistan as well as in Washington DC in the Bureau for Africa’s Conflict, Peacebuilding and Governance section. Before joining USAID in 2006, Ms. Butler was the Resident Representative for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Uganda, where she managed women's political participation, “Parties in Parliament” and electoral observation programs as well as voter education and outreach in northern Uganda. She also worked with NDI in Kenya and Tanzania on political party development.
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- David Alpher | Conflict and Violence Prevention Integrator | USAID
- David is currently the Conflict and Violence Prevention Integrator for USAID, working to integrate a deeper understanding of conflict and conflict prevention across the spectrum of USAID's programming. He was most recently a Humanitarian Assistance Advisor to the Military for USAID's Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance, and a Democracy Fellow with USAID's Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation, focused on Countering Violent Extremism. From 2013 until joining USAID in 2018, he was the first permanent representative in Washington, DC and head of the US office for the British peacebuilding NGO Saferworld, leading advocacy efforts to shape US foreign policy on areas such as community security, terrorism and violent extremism, aid and conflict interactions, and security sector reform. In previous work within the NGO sector, as a district manager and Chief of Party, he led youth engagement and IDP reintegration programs in Iraq, also managing the civil-military engagement within Iraq's complex reconstruction and stabilization environment. He has facilitated back-channel dialogues in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, led conflict analysis missions in Burkina Faso, Nepal and Ethiopia, among others, and backstopped a range of peacebuilding and development programs.
- Amy Tohill-Stull | Deputy Assistant to the Administrator | USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance
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Amy Tohill-Stull serves as Deputy Assistant to the Administrator of USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, the U.S. Government lead for international disaster response. Ms. Tohill-Stull is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, with more than 25 years of development experience in countries characterized by conflict, transition, and humanitarian crisis. Prior to her current role, Ms. Tohill-Stull served as Deputy Assistant Administrator within USAID’s Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance. Previously, she was Mission Director of USAID/Nepal and Deputy Mission Director of USAID/Nepal. During her tenure in Nepal, she oversaw U.S. foreign assistance in the wake of the 2015 earthquakes, and in support of elections and the country’s ongoing political transition to a federal style of government. In Kabul, Afghanistan, she oversaw strategic planning, budgeting, project design, donor coordination, performance management, and cross-cutting programs related to gender, multi-donor trust funds, government capacity building, and monitoring and evaluation. She also served in a similar capacity in Amman, Jordan, Harare, Zimbabwe, and Almaty, Kazakhstan. From 1997-2002, Ms. Tohill-Stull worked for USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, serving on multiple Disaster Assistance Response Teams fielded to coordinate U.S. Government assistance for both natural and man-made disasters and overseeing disaster mitigation efforts in the Asia and Latin America regions. Prior to her career with USAID, she worked for development partner, the World Resources Institute, on a range of development issues.
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Aaron Roesch | Foreign Engagement Policy Lead | USAID Office of Policy
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Aaron Roesch focuses on a range of policy issues, including fragility, resilience, the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, and responding to COVID-19. He has also undertaken detail assignments to the Department of State’s Bureaus of Near Eastern Affairs and International Organization Affairs and the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. He joined USAID in 2012 as a Presidential Management Fellow. Previously, he worked for the International Rescue Committee in Uganda, Kenya and the United Kingdom.
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Mustafa Aslamy | Strategic Partnerships Senior Associate | International Rescue Committee
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Mustafa Aslamy is the Sr. Advisor for strategic partnerships with International Rescue Committee (IRC). He oversees the IRC’s strategic engagement with the U.S. Government (including USAID), the World Bank and DC based INGO community at large. Mustafa has more than ten years of experience in international development and humanitarian assistance both in the US and abroad – managing and advocating for the U.S. foreign assistance. Prior to IRC, he served as Sr. Donor Relations Officer with Action Against Hunger (ACF) network, where he oversaw the organization’s strategic engagement with the U.S. institutional donors and advised ACF on US Government policies. From 2008 to 2013, he served in key positions in the field implementing USAID funded programs mainly with Tetra Tech and Bluemont. As a former IDP and refugee, Mustafa brings a personal commitment and experience to the IRC’s work working across the humanitarian – development and peace nexus.
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- Nina Weisenhorn | Senior Advisor, Education in Crisis and Conflict | USAID Office of Education
- Nina Weisenhorn is an international education specialist with fifteen years of experience leading policy, implementation and evaluation of education programs in conflict-affected contexts. She currently serves as a Senior Advisor in Education in Crisis & Conflict for USAID’s Center for Education. Nina leads the Center’s work on humanitarian-development coherence, resilience and conflict-sensitivity. Prior to USAID, Nina worked for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in various capacities, including as an Emergency Response Team Senior Education Coordinator, an Education Technical Advisor and an Education Coordinator. During her tenure at IRC, she led the expansion and technical advancement of IRC’s education programs in DR Congo through their design, implementation and evaluation.
- Dina Esposito, Interim Vice President for Policy and Advocacy, Research and Technical Leadership | Mercy Corps
- Dina Esposito currently oversees Mercy Corps’ Policy and Advocacy and Research teams as well as its Technical Support Unit, which houses global subject matter experts who provide strategy and program support to country teams in some 40 countries around the world. Before joining Mercy Corps she was the Director of USAID’s Office of Food for Peace, (now part of the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance), where she oversaw the Agency’s then $2.8 billion relief and development food assistance portfolio. She also served as the Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian response overseeing Sudan, South Sudan, the 2015 El Nino drought response and the food assistance portfolio. Prior to this, Ms. Esposito worked overseas for a nongovernmental organization in Ethiopia and Kenya where she focused on conflict and peacebuilding programs. She began her career as a Presidential Management Fellow in the U.S. Department of State, Bureau for Population, Refugees and Migration and eventually joined USAID where she filled a variety of policy and program roles related to humanitarian response, conflict and post conflict reconstruction and development, with a focus on Africa.
- Dustin Caniglia | Resilience Coordinator | USAID/Somalia
- Dustin Caniglia is the Resilience Coordinator for the USAID/Somalia Mission. He has a background in cattle ranching in Arizona and resilience programming in East Africa and South Asia. Living in Nairobi and working on Somalia for the past nine years, Dustin has been forced to confront many shortfalls of his own role as a decision maker. In doing this, he has emerged as a thought leader in adaptive management and early warning systems, and an advocate for localization.
- Liz Hume | Executive Director | Alliance for Peacebuilding
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Liz Hume is the Executive Director at the Alliance for Peacebuilding. She is a conflict expert and has more than 20 years of experience in senior leadership positions in bilateral, multilateral institutions and NGOs. From 1997-2001, Liz was seconded by the US Department of State to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Kosovo as the Chief Legal Counsel and Head of the Election Commission Secretariats. In these positions, she was responsible for developing the legal framework and policies in support of the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and UN Resolution 1244. After 9/11, Liz worked for the International Rescue Committee in Pakistan and Afghanistan where she established and managed the Protection Department for Afghan refugees and returning IDPs. Starting in 2004, she served in leadership positions and helped establish the Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation at USAID developing programs and policies to improve the USG’s ability to address the causes of violent deadly conflict. In 2007, Liz was the Chief of Party for Pact where she managed a USAID funded conflict resolution and governance program in Ethiopia. She also served as a Technical Director at FHI 360 where she managed a USAID funded peacebuilding and governance program in Senegal with a focus on the Casamance one of Africa’s longest-running civil wars. Liz is also an experienced mediator, and she is a frequent guest lecturer on countering violent extremism, international conflict analysis and peacebuilding in conflict-affected and fragile states.
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- Nefra Faltas | Senior Child Health Advisor | USAID
- Nefra Faltas is a Senior Child Health Advisor with the USAID Bureau for Global Health's Office of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition (GH/MCHN), and she co-founded and serves as Co-Chair of the Bureau for Global Health's Resilience Technical Working Group. She also supports technical oversight of USAID/GH/MCHN investments in risk and resilience analysis, monitoring, and evaluation through MOMENTUM Integrated Health Resilience, MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity, and UNICEF, in collaboration with USAID's Bureaus for Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience and Food Security. She has more than 15 years of clinical service delivery, preclinical genomics-based research, and global health programming and policy experience in MCHN, community health, infectious diseases, supply chain, family planning and reproductive health, gender, nutrition, WASH, malaria, and HIV/AIDS programming in the public and private sectors, and in more than 30 countries, with work ranging from supporting Ebola preparedness, response, and recovery in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to strengthening routine immunization in northern Nigeria. Nefra's work has focused in fragile, conflict-affected, and post-conflict settings, particularly in west and central Africa.