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This morning we celebrate International Women's Day by formally launching a report on Women in Humanitarian Leadership. The report, written for us by our colleagues at the Humanitarian Advisory Group, paints a stark picture of the status of women leaders in the humanitarian system. You can read the report by visiting: http://bit.ly/2mUEpx0 Wednesday, 8 March 2017 Despite the large number of women who work in aid and development, women in humanitarian organisations are just as under-represented in positions of leadership as other industries. A report released today by the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership, a collaborative initiative between Deakin University and Save the Children, highlights the many gaps that exist in understanding the challenges that humanitarian organisations face in achieving gender equality, as well as the substantial research gaps that exist in this area. The report was prepared in collaboration with the Humanitarian Advisory Group. Kate Sutton, co-author of the report, said that as we celebrate International Women’s Day the results of the report are a timely reminder that there is still much work to be done to address gender equality in leadership of the humanitarian workforce. “It is remarkable that despite the high number of women who work in Aid and Development compared to other industries that we still find that they do not occupy a proportional number of senior leadership positions,” Ms Sutton said. “It would appear that even though the workforce in the non-profit sector can be up to 75% female, in places such as the United States only 43% of CEOs are female. In Australia the story is similar, and within the UN women comprise only 27% of the most senior roles.” The Centre for Humanitarian Leadership is committed to helping organisations and women addressing the challenges we face in achieving gender equality. Sophie Perreard, Course Director of the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership’s flagship Humanitarian Leadership Program, said women in the humanitarian system face the same barriers as women in other sectors. “At the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership we are working hard to help individuals and organisations address these challenges,” Ms Perreard said. “This is not about achieving gender equality for the sake of equality, but acknowledging that women leaders are core to more effective organisations and more impactful humanitarian responses. We want to see more women leaders in senior positions and this is why we endeavour to support those amazing women to grow in those roles.” The Centre for Humanitarian Leadership will now be using the report to commission further research, as well as develop specific plans and activities with our partners to ensure that more women can occupy senior leadership positions in the humanitarian system.

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Submissions for papers at the First Asia Pacific Leadership Conference close tomorrow. Send us your abstract at http://www.humanitarian.events/

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Remember, submissions are still open for papers for the 1st Asia Pacific Humanitarian Leadership Conference! We are looking for papers on Diversity and Leadership, Localisation, Populations on the Move, and Humanitarian Ethics and Principles. If you have a great idea and want it heard by an audience of professional humanitarians, this is your chance! Submissions close on 3 March 2017. Visit http://www.humanitarian.events/ for more information.

Congratulations to our HLP8 students who are now on their way home from an intense learning experience in Melbourne. We look forward to seeing as many of them as possible in Indonesia as they continue their course. An enormous thank you for the dedication and hard work of our faculty team, in particular Sophie Perreard, Leonie Lonton, Deb Barry and all of the support team, coaches, simulation team and guest speakers.

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Do you have a great idea on how we can improve the humanitarian system and are interested in presenting a paper on Diversity and Leadership at our inaugural Asia Pacific Humanitarian Leadership Conference? Visit www.humanitarian.events to find out more!

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And we are underway! A very warm welcome to the 8th cohort of humanitarian leaders and we hope you enjoy your time with us and have the opportunity at the end of the residential to enjoy some of the delights of Melbourne!

We are very excited this morning as our Faculty team have arrived in Melbourne for two days of preparation ahead of our 8th Cohort of Humanitarian Leaders arriving for their first residential!

Registrations are now open for our inaugural Asia Pacific Humanitarian Leadership Conference! Call for Papers is still open - we want to hear great and challenging ideas from Practitioners, communities and academics. Visit www.humanitarian.events

Today is the last day our office is open for 2016 - we will be back on the 9th January 2017. We would like to wish all of our supporters, partners, students, alumni and humanitarians around the world a safe and happy holiday season, and a very Happy New Year!

Open minds open possibilities

Struggling to think of something to give this Christmas? How about the gift of leadership for crisis affected communities, humanitarian agencies and disaster management organisations? Each leader we train helps you to multiply your reach to potentially millions of crisis affected people each year. http://www.deakin.edu.au/open-minds-open-possibilities

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