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Responding to emergencies quickly and efficiently is a challenge that communities have always faced. Thanks to emerging technology, it’s becoming easier for responders to assess threats, share information, and plan emergency responses. Many of the latest innovations in emergency response are poised to revolutionize the way response teams analyse events and coordinate their activities, while others are dramatically changing the way everyday citizens handle emergencies.
The module will introduce the participants to the important sector of innovation technologies in emergencies. It will describe the importance of using technologies in disaster management, highlighting the role of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) networks and services in disaster management, and saving lives.
Therefore, the training will also focus on the main tools to be used, such as drones, satellite equipment and internet connection, GPS, GIS and mapping, very useful technologies for the emergency response and the recovery step, but also for the normalization phase.
Humanitarian staff always work in dangerous places and at times find themselves at risk. Every security situation is different, and each will require careful judgment on what to do and how to act.
The training will support to develop personal and professional skills in order to improve the safety level of personnel and beneficiaries in humanitarian operations.
The participants will familiarize with the main factors of vulnerability, risks and potential emergency situations (terrorist attack, kidnapping, sexual harassment, etc.) and related strategies to prevent and mitigate these risks (emergency procedures, prevention system, safety room, survival kit); at the end of the module they will be able to design a risk assessment plan.
As well as the training will face topics as wellbeing and challenging environments, knowledge and use of vital security tools for personal safety, public behaviour, image and personal safety. But it will also focus on the steps related to safety to be followed before and during the reaching of the mission, the minimum operational safety standards to be considered in the place where the humanitarian professional lives and works, including those related to his/her psycho-physical health.
Interventions containing quality and accountability focuses are essential in Disaster Management and humanitarian responses. Sphere Standards and other initiatives represent very useful tools to develop good humanitarian response projects.
The training has several learning objectives: to describe what quality and accountability mean; to provide examples of actions demonstrating accountability to different stakeholders; to access and use additional support from other quality and accountability initiatives; to explain Sphere’s core philosophy; to navigate the Sphere Handbook structure and components as an informed user; to advocate for using all of the Sphere Handbook in guiding humanitarian action; to use the Code of Conduct to guide humanitarian response; to explain how the 12 elements of the Humanitarian Charter affect humanitarian response programming; to use and advocate for the Humanitarian Charter as a guide to better programming and response; to state the four protection principles, providing clear examples of how these principles are put into practice.
Participants will have an overview on the following topics: Education in Emergency and Child Protection in Emergency Standards; the commitments of the Core Humanitarian Standard and the ways to meet the these commitments in humanitarian interventions; the difference between standards, key actions, key indicators and guidance notes; the main standards and indicators of the Sphere Technical Standards related to Shelter and Settlements, WASH, Health, Nutrition and Food Security. Finally they will know how to use the minimum standards in the realm of humanitarian action and thorough the program cycle management, also focusing on the connection between Sphere and MEAL.
At the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016, the UN and World Bank committed to a “new way of working” to transcend the obsolete divide between humanitarian and development sectors and related approaches: the “triple nexus”, which is described as the nexus between humanitarian, development, and -whenever relevant- peace. Despite the on-going debate, numerous events and discussions held at different levels, many in the sector are yet to embrace, internalize and operationalize the meaning of the triple nexus as well as its implications both on the sector and on the affected populations.
While it is relatively easier to think of a nexus in policy terms, as it perfectly frames the old humanitarian problem of combining different actions in difficult situations -life saving, development and an increase in peace- by encouraging synergies and aiming to ‘collective outcomes’, it is certainly more challenging to catch what it means to make a nexus on the ground: what does it mean for your organizations to work with multiple intentions and hit several different goals at once? This is not a new question: humanitarian practitioners have been struggling for years with joining-up things.
The course aims to provide NGO staff – including field, policy and HQ staff – with the references and the logic of the triple nexus.
Secondly, the course will help clarifying how international humanitarian law relates to the nexus, and how the sector may be legally and operationally at ease working across the nexus.
Thirdly, it will operationalize the discussion, offering to understand and unpack the challenges, the risks and opportunities for principled and effective humanitarian action, especially at the country and regional levels when working in the nexus, helping to better understand the efforts underway to navigate the nexus and the role of NGOs, and finally identify and showcase country case studies where NGOs are already working in such a nexus and sharing lessons learned, best practices with the wider NGO and humanitarian community.
In this training participants will understand what MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) is. They will experience tools and approaches to learn what it could be. They will gain expertise to improve and innovate practices in whatever role they will be -as “M&E” staff, managers, implementers, or support staff- and to express the whole potential of MEAL.
Meal is often seen as a stage of the Project Cycle and as a specialized activity, whose purpose is mainly to generate reports. The workshop will challenge these perceptions and it will prove that MEAL is the lifeblood of a programme, it is the set of processes and activities to gather evidence, knowledge, reflections to inform, adapt and improve humanitarian programming.
The purpose of MEAL is to ensure that all the relevant actors involved in humanitarian programmes -INGOs, but also the affected population, governmental stakeholders, supporters- can access the best evidence and information to take decisions and act. The questions in this step aim to know who needs to know what and who can provide which kind of useful information. So, the module will equip participants to recognize diverse information needs and options.
It also emphasizes the importance of participation in the MEAL process. If the information is powerful it must be collected, managed and used first and foremost to empower the affected population. They must have voice in the decision–making process and the learning must start from their experience. So participatory approaches are crucial, as well as the tension among open data and sensitivities has to be explored and the meaning of accountability has to be discussed.
Moreover, many diverse tools exist -often freely available- for evidence gathering, processing and sharing and the participants will experiment them understanding how they can be used within humanitarian programmes.
Humanitarian emergencies are decisive moments for gender equality. On one hand, girls and women affected by conflicts and natural disasters face new and increased risks to their health and rights, such as gender-based violence and disruptions in essential sexual and reproductive health services. Yet moments of crisis can also create new opportunities for girls’ and women’s leadership in families and communities, which, when supported and sustained, can drive longer-term gains in gender equality and power progress for all.
Feminist analysis and activism have been instrumental in achieving gains in women’s rights, particularly around addressing gender-based violence (GBV) globally. Over the past two decades, women’s movements have insisted that gender equality and GBV be addressed in humanitarian emergencies, including in armed conflict, refugee crises and natural disasters. Although the late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed advances in this agenda, many of these gains are now under threat. In many countries, we are witnessing the erosion of women’s human rights to live free from violence and exercise their full and equal rights in all domains. Feminist humanitarians are becoming increasingly alarmed by the shrinking space for their work and by the active undermining of work that centres on women and girls in both discourse and practice. As efforts to address GBV have been assumed by mainstream humanitarian organisations, women’s demands for change -and the transformational dimensions of this work- have become diluted.
There is a growing international consensus that feminist humanitarian action is needed and overdue.
Drawing from the current debate in the sector and from the experiences of the humanitarian community and local women-focused civil society organizations, the course will offer humanitarian practitioners with practices and viable solutions for creating a humanitarian system that eventually places girls and women at the centre.
After a disaster a lot of people, especially in rural areas, lost their jobs and livelihood options, living with limited access to public services. Disasters triggered by earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, typhoons or volcanic eruptions cause substantive damage to community infrastructures, including buildings, roads, bridges, trails but also market facilities, traditional crops, greenhouses, irrigation canals, micro-hydro plants and drinking water schemes. The damaged infrastructures became almost non-operational, prompting the risk of immediate migration for affected communities.
First of all, the training focuses on the modalities of the first agricultural assistance after a disaster by distributing seeds, animals and rural materials to ensure the survival of the affected populations, trying to favor as much as possible on-site purchases to give greater sustainability to the humanitarian intervention and also offer some economic recovery to local entrepreneurs and providers.
As a second step the course will face the topic of the rehabilitation and recovery of the infrastructures, highlighting that these measures are crucial because they can provide livelihood opportunities and basic services to the affected vulnerable communities. At the same time participants will acquire knowledge to restore in a sustainable way the livelihoods of vulnerable communities, enabling their long-term recovery.
Finally, the module will focus on local adaptation to climate change, that is anyway essential for vulnerable communities faced with increasing threats to livelihood and safety. The analysis of livelihood resilience utilizing a sustainable livelihoods approach shows that a soft adaptation strategy focusing on enhancing human and social capital needs to be undertaken to increase adaptive capacity and build resilience.
Physical, economic and social vulnerability are closely linked. Poor countries and poor people suffer significantly more than the others from disasters. The hardest hit are the most vulnerable sections of the population such as women, children, persons with disabilities, elderly, ethnic and religious minorities and groups made with specific disadvantages related to their physical, economic or social status. Unequal power relations are the driving force behind exclusion that lead to unequal access to resources, education, health care, employment, welfare schemes; lack of ability to build assets and reduce risks; and limited ability to access post disaster relief.
It is overwhelmingly acknowledged that women, persons with disabilities and socially excluded groups (e.g. based on caste, religion, ethnicity) are at higher risk with regards to natural hazards. Despite the rich literature available and countless operational attempts made to pilot and implement inclusive approaches in the sector, yet so far no “harmonised”, yet “locally appropriate” inclusive Disaster Risk Management approach exists nor is recognised by relevant region-wide DRM actors.
Drawing from a wide variety of experiences carried out on the different “facets” on inclusion across multiple operations and organizations worldwide (both specialized and mainstreamed ones), the course aims to capture the essentials of inclusion in an “operational way” that will serve professionals, both in order to improve the quality of their work to reduce disasters and disaster losses and also to advocate for inclusion in collaboration with others, aiming to the ultimate goal of contributing prepare a new generation of DRM practitioners who master and practice inclusion professionally.
When a disaster occurs, a good communication strategy is mandatory. Communications are crucial in delivering an effective and coordinated emergency response on the ground. They are also vital to keep and engage supporters, raise more money and advocate for positive change for beneficiaries affected by emergencies and those at risk. Communication should focus on beneficiaries’ needs in a responsible and ethical manner, giving them a voice before, during and after the crisis and address the barriers they face in achieving normalcy in their lives. Furthermore, when NGOs staff members can find common ground on issues of interest for the media, they become a much stronger voice for beneficiaries.
As first, the training will focus on data collection about the situation sincethe media need information, people and pictures to show what is happening in order to contribute to public communication and fundraising. If the humanitarian actors cannot provide with them, they will not get the appropriate visibility.
The course will also face the different audience in emergencies -media, local and global staff, individual supporters, corporate donors, institutional donors, governments, other NGOs, UN agencies, embassies, local partners, affected communities, community leaders, civil society and military forces in the affected area-.
Finally participants will acquire knowledge on emergency preparedness plans, media and advocacy trainings, equipment and supplies needed, list of key contacts, crisis management plan, press releases, appeals, pictures, videos, assessment on security risk of communications activities, social media, sit reps, key messages and tweet sheet/social, case studies, cost examples, factsheets + infographics, briefings, blogs and communications plans.
Participants will deepen the knowledge of the communication in emergencies principles and they will learn about the communication materials requested from the HQ and the communication in emergencies tools. So, the training aims to explain why, how, when and what to communicate during the emergencies and the lessons will be completed by practical exercises.
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