Integrated Crisis Response Isn’t New: 135 Years of Global Practice from The Salvos
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Coolangatta Room
| Monday, July 27, 2026 |
| 1:55 PM - 2:25 PM |
| Coolangatta Room |
Overview
Daryl Crowden, The Salvation Army
Details
Three Key Learnings
1. Listeners will know what Triple Nexus is, where it came from and why it matters
2. Know of The Salvos’ as the “original nexus actor”, a leading actor in community transformation and their extensive global humanitarian and development impact
3. Know how faith based organisations, including The Salvos are, by their DNA, uniquely created to deliver integrated programs that are holistically transformative – and why they have an obligation to be and do better.
Speaker
Mr Daryl Crowden
General Manager: Emergency, Aid and Development
The Salvation Army
Integrated Crisis Response Isn’t New: 135 Years of Global Practice from The Salvos
Abstract
The humanitarian–development–peace (HDP) nexus is often presented as a recent response to protracted crises and fragility. This presentation challenges that narrative by examining 135 years of integrated crisis response practice through the global experience of The Salvation Army (The Salvos), beginning with William Booth’s book In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890).
Booth’s model combined immediate relief with rehabilitation and social reintegration, forming a holistic approach that closely aligns with today’s triple nexus framework. His emphasis on dignity, agency, and systemic reform anticipated contemporary priorities such as resilience, localisation, and conflict‑sensitive programming.
The Salvos’ enduring global presence has enabled this integrated “rescue–rehabilitate–reintegrate” pathway to be applied across diverse humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding contexts.
This session draws on current global practice from The Salvos work in fragile and conflict affected contexts, presenting links from Daryl’s experience and The Salvos’ historical insights to today’s operational realities. We will explore why nexus is best understood as a mindset rather than a project, how long term presence, community trust, and integrated design enable humanitarian assistance, development outcomes, and peacebuilding impacts to be delivered together and how these strengthen outcomes in fragile settings.
Booth’s model combined immediate relief with rehabilitation and social reintegration, forming a holistic approach that closely aligns with today’s triple nexus framework. His emphasis on dignity, agency, and systemic reform anticipated contemporary priorities such as resilience, localisation, and conflict‑sensitive programming.
The Salvos’ enduring global presence has enabled this integrated “rescue–rehabilitate–reintegrate” pathway to be applied across diverse humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding contexts.
This session draws on current global practice from The Salvos work in fragile and conflict affected contexts, presenting links from Daryl’s experience and The Salvos’ historical insights to today’s operational realities. We will explore why nexus is best understood as a mindset rather than a project, how long term presence, community trust, and integrated design enable humanitarian assistance, development outcomes, and peacebuilding impacts to be delivered together and how these strengthen outcomes in fragile settings.
Biography
Before joining The Salvos as National General Manager for Emergency, Aid and Development, Daryl worked for international NGOs managing programs and teams in some of the world’s most fragile contexts. With over 20 years’ experience managing integrated humanitarian programming and most recently leading refugee health programs in Uganda and Tanzania during an Ebola outbreak, COVID-19 and a period of imploding humanitarian funding.
Daryl has qualifications in Theology, Cultural Anthropology, International Community Development and Humanitarian Response Management. His formal and theoretical qualifications – the ideals of integrated programming - have been tested in the realities of fragility and volatility.
