The article explores challenges and innovations in implementing the triple nexus of humanitarian, development, and peace sectors, indicating a need for integrated strategies.
Abstract This article investigates how UNICEF operationalizes the Triple Nexus (humanitarian-development-peace) across institutional levels and geographies. Using institutional ethnography, interviews, and document analysis, the study develops an analytical framework to map feedback loops, enabling conditions, and organizational bottlenecks. Findings reveal fragmented planning, financing rigidities, and a weak peacebuilding mandate but also highlight innovations such as integrated outbreak analytics and localized health systems. The study contributes to TN literature by conceptualizing implementation as a dynamic, feedback-driven process rather than a linear model, offering new insights into institutional adaptation, coherence, and systems-level integration in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
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