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Events

While CGD and CGDE in-person events are postponed at this time following guidance from public health officials on dealing with the spread of the coronavirus, we will continue to host some events and meetings online and will place updated announcements on this page as they are organized and confirmed. Thank you for your continued interest in CGD’s work.

Note: CGD is committed to gender diversity. Read our gender diversity commitments for public events here.

Upcoming

There are currently no upcoming events.

Past

October 13, 2020
Coordination is essential to effective humanitarian action. But the humanitarian cluster coordination system has struggled with persistent weaknesses...
March 31, 2020
Successful suppression of COVID-19 in the United States will require urgent and decisive action by state, local, and community leaders across the...
March 19, 2020
Aid agencies are scrambling to adapt as the COVID-19 pandemic is felt throughout the world. Join TNH Senior Editor Ben Parker as he speaks to leading...
February 13, 2020
The outbreak of the novel Coronavirus, known as 2019-nCoV, is growing by the day, and increasingly posing risks beyond China—with the developing...
September 23, 2019
Humanitarian relief must involve, and be accountable to, the crisis-affected people it serves. Versions of this principle can be found in most...
October 29, 2018
More than two years after we saw the end of a deadly Ebola epidemic that claimed the lives of over 11,000 people and devastated populations in West...
May 31, 2018
As countries struggle with political pressures to close borders and question the value of traditional aid to humanitarian emergencies, divisive...
May 9, 2018
In recent years, cash transfer programming (CTP) has emerged as one of the most significant innovations in international humanitarian assistance...

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