INTRODUCTION Designed to provide answers to basic questions professionals and volunteers have when approaching refugee-related issues, this course is a introduction to the complex subject of refugees and IDPs. It covers a wide range of topics from building a refugee camp, common psychological and medical problems, different case studies, to the causes of displacement, or [...]
INTRODUCTION For many volunteers and professionals from NGOs and international organisations working to ease the situation of the millions of refugees in the world implies as well understanding the solutions proposed and carried out by countries, governments and international bodies, such as UNHCR, to repatriate or resettle the displaced populations. This course gives an overview [...]
INTRODUCTION The course seeks to analyze and explain how the international humanitarian system has to improve the coordination and cooperation between major humanitarian relief agents during complex humanitarian emergencies in these days and what has been done in the past to achieve it. We will describe how the way coordination among organizations is managed has [...]
INTRODUCTION Specially focused on professionals and volunteers working in the field of development, humanitarian aid and related topics that demand and need something more than the formal training, given by their organizations, in the practical subjects they are working with. The development of all soft-skills that could maximize the effectiveness of our work is becoming [...]
This course is designed to help the individual who is not (or at least not yet) a professional trainer. The focus is on the supervisor, manager or brand new trainer who has been asked to present or train a group of individuals; a task for which he or she has little prior experience. This on [...]
All of us experience conflict. Both working in the humanitarian field, in a refugee camp or in an office in London. We argue with our spouses, colleagues, our boss and our clients, even the people we may try to help. So long as people are individuals there will be the potential for conflict. That’s the [...]
