This page hosts public resources on the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Triple Nexus, including online courses, reference documents and publications.

The HDP nexus refers to the coordinated work between HDP sectors to more effectively meet peoples’ needs, mitigate risks and vulnerabilities, and move toward sustainable peace.

It recognizes the vital importance of meeting critical and immediate humanitarian needs while also ensuring efforts that protect development gains and invest in local capacities to promote sustainability and sustaining peace.  HDP efforts require the protection of basic human rights including education, health, work, housing and food, and address exclusion and intergenerational poverty that can further worsen the crises.

A nexus approach calls for a dynamic New Way of Working (NWOW) that overcomes the HDP divide, reinforces national and local systems, and anticipates crises by working toward

1. Collective outcomes;
2. Over multi-year timeframes;
3. Leveraging comparative advantage.

Since agreeing to the triple nexus and its NWOW at the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, the UN as well as national governments, donors, international and local non-governmental organizations, crisis-affected States, regional institutions, and others have begun to make progress on its uptake and implementation.