Background (archive)
From the mid-1990s a small group of European civil-protection and development agencies built a standing partnership so they could plug into UN disaster operations with the same camp, ICT and support modules. The public site for that network lived at ihp.nu until 2025.
The partnership was not a private supplier. It was a government arrangement: rotating chair, a secretariat link through UN OCHA, and members that included (at various times) agencies from the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Germany (THW) and Luxembourg. The Netherlands joined and later left.
This page is a rewritten historical note for people who still hold old bookmarks and inbound links. It is not an official statement of the network. Current material belongs on ihpartnership.org.
If you need field satcom, generators or camp kit as a buyer, use Independent Humanitarian Procurement on this domain — that is a separate company.