Certificate courses
The right to adequate food is recognized in international legal instruments including declarations, which are nonbinding and conventions, which are treaties that carry the force of the law.
This unique course brings together people from diverse walks of life and parts of the globe to explore how we can care for refugees, migrants and asylum seekers more effectively. Through lively zoom discussions we will unpack refugee and migrant experiences as multi-dimensional and complex, and explore psychosocial perspectives and different types of intervention and activism.
For too long, global warming has been viewed as tomorrow’s problem. The overwhelming evidence now suggests that climate change exacerbates existing development challenges, further exposing the vulnerability of the poor, and pushing those living on the margins closer to the edge. For those people most at risk, climate change is a crisis today. The rights, interests, and needs of those affected must take centre stage as an issue of global social justice. Climate change is the defining issue of our era. Hardly a day passes without a newspaper, a broadcast or a politician making at least one reference to the threats it poses and the urgency of taking action, immediately to limit the effects and, in the longer term, to adapt to the changes that are sure to come.
Certificate in Gender & Humanitarian Action
There has been a change in the recent past and human rights in an armed conflict zone is a national and global issue that has been integrated into politics, military practice and international jurisprudence. For too long the topic of human rights in armed conflict was confined to theorists’ study rooms and was dealt with in academic discussions with little impact on policy choices in matters of warfare or on the reality of a battlefield. The trend needs to be connected with legal theory and be embedded in broader considerations of laws which govern conflict and violence of various forms.
All humanitarian work must be funded because the workers have to be remunerated and the services that they are given have to be billed. Students in this course will be equipped with skills on the negotiation theories, the practical applications of the theories and how the theories have worked in historical or current applications.
Natural and man-made disasters have a far longer history and have been the reason behind the loss of many lives, massive destruction of property and infrastructure, displacement of people and therefore increase in the number of refugees countrywide. The needs of these affected populations are centered on public health concerns such as food, shelter, sanitation, prevention of disease and treatment of disease and injuries. Yet meeting these basic needs under emergency situations poses unique problems particularly in the developing countries. And the greater challenge lies in helping restore essential services in post-disaster and conflict situations. According to the Kenya National Centre for Disaster Management (KNCDM) report of 2012, natural disasters alone have caused losses worth billions of shillings in Kenya over the last six years alone because such disasters are both unpredictable and difficult to control. Developed counties have not been left behind with countries like Japan being among those that experienced very destructive earthquake during the decade that ended in the year 2010 and during which decade the World Bank estimated the cost of the damages at 2 trillion shillings. The world has effectively woken up to the realities of these massive social and economic effects of disasters but acknowledges that little can be done to control natural disasters. However many natural disasters are preventable and their effects easier to control.
International Development Studies (IDS) seeks to understand and address problems facing developing countries. It is an inherently interdisciplinary field that examines issues through a range of lenses like political science, economics, science, anthropology, sociology, environment, and many others
Leadership is defined as the potential to influence and drive the group efforts towards the accomplishment of goals. This influence may originate from formal sources, such as that provided by acquisition of managerial position in an organization. The organizations which are over managed and under-led do not perform upto the benchmark. Leadership accompanied by management sets a new direction and makes efficient use of resources to achieve it. Both leadership and management are essential for individual as well as organizational success.