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Where humanitarian, development, and peace actors learn together.
The Nexus Academy is a global platform, initiated by the DAC-UN Dialogue and powered by the UNDP Crisis Academy, that seeks to build consensus and promote a shared understanding of the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus. Our approach centers around learning, community, and action.
Operating at the intersection of humanitarian, development, and peace-building, the Nexus Academy emphasizes integrated approaches to complex crises. It equips professionals to address challenges in fragile settings, fostering coordination, collaboration, and coherence across sectors.
Learning
We deliver learning experiences that translate HDP Nexus principles into practice. Our methodology is grounded in adult learning principles, case-based discussion, simulations, peer exchange, and facilitated dialogue across mandates.
We create safe spaces to unpack institutional tensions, trade-offs, and real implementation challenges.
What it is?
Our flagship two-week learning journeys bring together humanitarian, development, and peace actors from across institutions and regions. Through six interactive modules, participants engage with experts and through facilitated simulations and peer exchange — tackling real operational dilemmas while fostering collaboration across institutional boundaries.
Designed to move beyond theory, the Nexus Academy’s Multi-Stakeholder Cohorts strengthen practical coordination, shared analysis, and collective outcomes in crisis and fragile settings.
Who is it for?
Professionals and decision-makers working at global, regional, and field levels in crisis and fragile contexts.
What it is?
Designed for senior leaders and specialized practitioners, these cohorts explore the strategic and thematic dimensions of the Nexus — from climate and displacement to financing, governance, and institutional reform. They create space for candid dialogue on policy coherence, operational trade-offs, and system-level change.
For example, in December 2025, our multi-stakeholder cohort focused on advancing gender equality and gender-responsive Nexus programming, strengthening integrated approaches that leave no one behind.
Who is it for?
Senior decision-makers, directors, and technical experts shaping policy and institutional strategy.
What it is?
Context-specific engagements developed with country offices, regional platforms, and institutional partners. These trainings address operational bottlenecks, align stakeholders around collective outcomes, and strengthen coordination mechanisms in fragile and crisis-affected settings.
Who is it for?
UN Country Teams, government counterparts, regional coordination bodies, donor representatives, and multi-stakeholder platforms seeking context-adapted Nexus implementation.
What it is?
Nexus Essentials is a short, self-paced online course (2–3 hours) that introduces the core principles and practical foundations of integrated humanitarian, development, and peace action. The course offers an accessible and engaging entry point into how actors can work more coherently in crisis and conflict settings.
Complete the course at your own pace and earn a digital badge recognizing your foundational knowledge of the HDP Nexus.
Who is it for?
Anyone interested in understanding and applying the HDP Nexus approach.
Community
The Nexus Academy is more than a training programme — it is a living practitioner network. With over 800 alumni across regions and institutions, we foster sustained exchange beyond the classroom.
By forging relationships across humanitarian, development, and peace actors, we strengthen the ecosystem needed for integrated action.
What it is?
Graduates of our Multi-Stakeholder Cohorts automatically become part of the Nexus Academy Alumni Network — a growing global community of 800+ practitioners advancing integrated HDP approaches across institutions and regions.
The Network sustains collaboration beyond the classroom through peer exchange and thematic dialogues such as our ‘Open House’ sessions. LinkedIn now serves as the living home of the community: a dynamic space to share insights, spotlight field practice, and stay connected.
Who is it for?
Alumni of the Nexus Academy Multi-Stakeholder Cohorts.
What it is?
UNDP Crisis Academy Open Houses are public webinars designed to deepen engagement on thematic priorities of the Nexus Academy and the Prevention, Recovery, and Crisis Finance Campuses.
These dynamic, theme-based sessions create space for reflection, exchange, and peer learning — spotlighting country and regional insights, sectoral practice, and emerging operational lessons. They draw on the expertise of our global communities, and reinforce the practical application of learning.
Who is it for?
Open to the public. Targeted to practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and partners across governments, UN entities, NGOs, academia and private sector interested in integrated solutions to crisis and fragility.
What it is?
A curated global repository of practical resources supporting operationalisation of the HDP Nexus. Featuring academic reports, case studies, institutional frameworks, and operational guidance, the Nexus Knowledge Hub (currently in Beta version) strengthens evidence-based learning and provides the Nexus Academy course participants with a one-stop-shop of actionable knowledge and tools.
Who is it for?
Participants and alumni from Nexus Academy Multi-Stakeholder Cohorts.
Action
The Nexus Academy supports partners in building the capabilities needed to advance the HDP Nexus approach in practice. We work at both contextual and institutional levels to strengthen coordination, collaboration and coherence that enable more systemic responses in crisis and fragile settings.
From field-based learning engagements to strategic institutional collaborations, our focus is on equipping actors with the tools, frameworks, and confidence to advance integrated approaches within their own mandates and systems.
What it is?
We support multi-stakeholder partners to turn learning into practice in specific country and regional contexts. These engagements focus on settings where conditions for strengthening coordination, collaboration and coherence are favorable.
Working alongside local and national counterparts, UN Country Teams, and regional platforms, tailored traninings can help translating global commitments into operational reality.
Who is it for?
Governments, UN Country Teams, regional platforms, and multi-stakeholder coordination bodies seeking to strengthen Nexus approaches in fragile and crisis-affected contexts.
What it is?
We work with key institutional actors to embed Nexus principles within their systems, strategies, and operational models. These strategic collaborations support institutional coherence, policy or programmatic alignment, and system-level reform.
Through tailored workshops and joint knowledge development, we support partners in translating Nexus commitments into institutional practice. Recent examples include high-level engagements such as the HDP Nexus training in Riyadh, convening senior stakeholders to advance integrated approaches for sustainable impact.
Who it is for?
Bilateral and multilateral development partners, UN entities, regional organizations, and institutional leadership seeking to integrate Nexus principles into strategy, financing, and programming frameworks.
Partnerships & Governance
The Nexus Academy was established as a flagship initiative of the DAC–UN Dialogue and is grounded in the 2019 OECD-DAC Recommendation on the HDP Nexus.
The DAC Recommendation united diverse stakeholders under shared principles, fostering greater coherence, complementarity, and coordination across the humanitarian, development, and peace sectors worldwide.
The Nexus Academy operates under the UNDP Crisis Academy and benefits from cross-campus methodologies, learning innovation, and institutional support. It is guided by a multi-stakeholder Steering Committee and enabled through the generous support of BMZ, AECID, and the Republic of Korea.
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