International organisations moving beyond their mandate

Climate change is increasing the frequency of natural disasters and undermining development efforts. How are international development and humanitarian organisations adapting to climate change?

In this talk, Nina Hall will look at the responses of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Development Programme and the International Organisation for Migration. She will identify changes in their organisational rhetoric, policy, structure, operations and overall mandate to address climate change. Hall will argue that international bureaucrats can play an important role in mandate expansion, influencing whether and how to expand and lobbying states to endorse this expansion.

Biography
Nina Hall is a Lecturer in Global Governance at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. She has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford. She has researched and published on climate change and humanitarianism, global refugee and migration governance, climate adaptation financing, and leadership in international organisations. Her work has been published in Global Environmental Politics and Global Governance and in newspapers including the Guardian.

Book Discussants

• Mr Sam Daws - Director, Project on UN Governance and Reform, Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford
• Mr Achim Steiner – Director of the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. Former Executive Director of the United Nations Environmental Programme.
• Professor Alexander Betts – Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
• Moderation: Associate Professor Tom Hale, Blavatnik School of Government