Certificate of Achievement
Mary Templeman Hogg - O'Rourke
has completed the following course:
Humanitarian Action, Response and Relief
This course explored the theoretical and practical perspectives of humanitarian response. Examining the wider humanitarian context and the disaster management cycle, students developed the knowledge and specialist skills required for working in humanitarian crises.
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
Martin Nthakomwa
Lecturer in International Disaster Relief and Community Reconstruction
Coventry University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify the historical background and contextual issues that inform humanitarian approaches
- Explore the theoretical underpinning that shapes many humanitarian relief operations
- Explore the key principles and values that underpin responses to emergencies and humanitarian action
- Evaluate the impact of a range of humanitarian relief responses on the experiences of disaster-affected populations.
Syllabus
- The Humanitarian origin in the Red Cross movement
- The Geneva Convention, Hague Conventions and the UDHR
- Ethics of humanitarian work
- Key concepts/terminologies for humanitarian operations – NGOs, agencies
- Humanitarian space
- Protection
- The landscape of the main actors in humanitarian response
- Anticipation and disaster assessments; types of assessments, purpose of assessments and assessing capacities, rapid assessments and considerations
- Cluster systems
Issued on 3rd May 2020
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