MERCY Malaysia International Humanitarian Conference (MMIHC) is a unique forum that brings together humanitarian actors and networks from different parts of the world, and nearly every stakeholder from various sectors. The previous conference was held in 2019, addressing the theme ‘Driving Coherent Humanitarian Action’ to promote cohesiveness in humanitarian action through closer collaboration and integrated approaches.
It attracted more than 400 participants, and had placed MERCY Malaysia as the national and regional leader in humanitarian-development works, and as one of those few global leader that seriously convenes leading humanitarian thinkers and practitioners from around the world to discuss best practices, lessons learnt and their implications for the people at the core of humanitarian work.
The 2024 edition is planned to address far more complex issues that require our attention, and they include the increasing fragility and conflict, climate crisis, health crisis, financial and economic crises due to compounding risks from disasters and development challenges, localisation agenda, humanitarian diplomacy, global pandemic, science and technology, financial resources dedicated to humanitarian and development aid, and many others.
MMIHC 2024 is designed to echo MERCY Malaysia’s Humanitarian Development Nexus (HDN) Agenda as its motive force in driving and delivering its 2030 Strategic Plan – Delivering Meaningful Humanitarian Action’. The conference will be hosted physically in Kuala Lumpur over three days. It also offers technical workshops, training sessions, lunch talks, ignite stage session, cafe talks, fireside chat/ floor views sessions, exhibition and networking sessions, and a conference dinner.
