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This document aims at explaining how the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) collective outcomes were formulated at the basis of the HDP Nexus approach in Cameroon.
The HDP Nexus is defined as the interlinkages between humanitarian, development and peace actions.
The Nexus approach refers to the aim of strengthening collaboration, coherence and complementarity.
The approach seeks to capitalise on the comparative advantages of each pillar – to the extent of their relevance in the specific context – in order to reduce overall vulnerability and the number of unmet needs, strengthen risk management capacities and address root causes of conflict .
Summary and timeline of the HDP Nexus approach in Cameroon:
• The outcomes of the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit and the associated Agenda for Humanity initiatives have sought to improve collaboration across the HumanitarianDevelopment Nexus within a "New Way of Working", while the twin resolutions on Sustaining Peace adopted by the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly in 2016 broadened the effort to include Peace in the triple Nexus.
• Cameroon was the first country to volunteer at the World Humanitarian Summit to roll out the Nexus approach and became one of the seven priority countries of the UN Joint Steering Committee to Advance Humanitarian-Development Collaboration established by the Secretary-General in 2017 .
• A group composed of Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) and United Nations Country Team (UNCT) members started working on the HDP Nexus (previously called the New Way of Working) in 2017. Their work led to the decision of the HCT to create a National Nexus Task Force in May 2019 mandated with the development of the HDP Nexus approach in Cameroon and its operationalisation at the community level.
• The HDP Nexus approach was endorsed by the HCT and the UNCT in October 2019.
• The Humanitarian Coordinator and UN Resident Coordinator leads the HDP Nexus in Cameroun.
• The National HDP Nexus Task Force is chaired by the Humanitarian Development Peace Coordinator with the support of the OCHA HDP Regional Advisor and includes as of 2022 more than a hundred representatives from the Government, UN Agencies, the World Bank, members states and donors, international and national NGOs and the private sector.
• Two regional HDP Nexus Task Forces were created in 2020: one in the Far-North and one for the Eastern Front which encompasses the North, the Adamaoua and the East.
• The vision of the HDP Nexus in Cameroon is based on a bottom-up approach. It seeks to create synergies between Humanitarian, Development and Peacebuilding interventions in municipalities where conditions require and allow for the three types of interventions. These municipalities are called Convergence Areas.