2023 marks 25 years since Estonia made the change from being a recipient of humanitarian assistance to a donor. On this occasion, the Estonian Refugee Council is organising an international humanitarian assistance conference in Tallinn. It will focus on macro-trends: humanitarian assistance becoming more cash-based, the growing importance of data-based and digitalised approaches, and greater attention being directed to localisation of response. 

The event will include three panel discussions on the following topics:

• Is humanitarian cash here to stay?
• Make sense, not data: digitalisation in humanitarian assistance.
• Does localisation work? Notes from Ukraine.

The conference features experienced experts from international humanitarian organisations and institutions such as the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance (ALNAP), the European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the Embassy of Switzerland in Ukraine, Ukrainian NGO Center of United Action, the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and others.

The conference will also see plenty of discussion and debate on other topics as well as video content from Ukraine, and will be live-streamed online.

Registration is open until 31 October.