This briefing note summarises the key considerations and resources for including the people most affected by intersecting inequalities in coordinated humanitarian, development and peacebuilding programming in protracted conflicts. It explains what the humanitarian-development-peace nexus is, why inclusion matters within it, and how the approach is operationalised in specific contexts.

Its central finding is that achieving the Sustainable Development Goals requires including the most vulnerable people affected by intersecting inequalities in coordinated assistance, and that this works in two ways: understanding that inclusion is a critical cross-cutting element of the nexus approach, and recognising that in individual contexts improved coordination can support meaningful inclusion of the most marginalised people through local pathways to sustainable change. It is written as a common resource for humanitarian, development and peacebuilding advisers and programme managers, and is designed to prompt cross-cadre discussion rather than to present an institutional position.