Certificate courses
The course introduces a standardized and recognized approach to managing personal safety, communications and navigation in the humanitarian field, as well as an overview of individual and team risk management in complex environments. This course covers common dangers and hazards in various contexts, appropriate mitigation strategies, the development of security plans and procedures, and how to respond to incidents when they occur.
Course overview: This course aims at improving your knowledge around effectively managing and directing project grants. It entails the process that an organization harnesses in order to oversee its grants, hence staying organized, being able to meet deadlines and accurately reporting on the use of funds.
Getting funding for a project is not just a matter of luck, but a matter of learning a few skills and improving them each time one pens down to write a proposal. The approach that one takes to sell an idea will determine if the funds will be granted or not. The whole project should be very persuasive to woe the funder to your side. It is like a beautiful girl who has many suitors asking for her hand into friendship, the best suitor normally emerges the winner all factors kept constant.
Course Overview The complexity and an unprecedented number of humanitarian emergencies requiring a health response have resulted in an increased demand for competent humanitarian healthcare providers. This course aims at providing knowledge, strategies and tools to work as medical personnel in a humanitarian situation. It also provides public health strategies to decrease morbidity and mortality as well as tools for preventive and curative management of the main diseases and disorders in a broad range of areas needed for the front-line humanitarian health staff. It provides knowledge of the global health situation and factors that determine health status, how context and different types of disasters affects the health of populations. Healthcare providers have their own skill sets unique to their respective practice. However, these are not enough because working in a dynamic humanitarian environment requires an entirely different set of competencies. The globally required competencies are what is offered by this course.
public health administration is the constant monitoring of health issues of public and educating them accordingly in ways that they can understand. This course will equip the participants with relevant knowledge of the terminologies and major milestone in Public Health. The course is very important for those involved in Community Development and Health.
This course introduces students to international and regional systems and standards for the protection of asylum seekers from the perspectives of history, legal, theory, and practical. It also examines the escalating challenges for refugee protection resulting from a mixed migration, and rising xenophobia. It discusses the challenges presented by complex emergencies and mass influxes and responds to the international community to effective humanitarian aid delivery. The critical importance of approaching refugee populations as heterogeneous groups with differing needs and resources is explained and approaches to the identification of and response to special protection needs of vulnerable individuals within the community are discussed.
The humanitarian sector operates in dynamic and complex environments where the need to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity takes precedence. Understanding the evolution of humanitarian action is critical to appreciating its current structure. From its origins in the principles of neutrality and impartiality during the 19th century to its transformation in the 21st century, the sector has evolved to address not just immediate emergencies but also long-term recovery and resilience. Today, humanitarian actors must navigate intricate global challenges such as climate change, armed conflict, forced migration, and public health crises. Key stakeholders in this ecosystem, including governments, NGOs, international organizations, and local actors, often work together under frameworks guided by international law, such as the Geneva Conventions. However, humanitarian interventions must be context-specific, requiring practitioners to analyze political, cultural, and socioeconomic factors. This module underscores the importance of maintaining humanity and impartiality while balancing the complexities of rapidly changing environments. It prepares learners to identify and work effectively with various stakeholders while adhering to the ethical principles of humanitarian action.
This course will prepare you to design effective and ethical investigations. You’ll learn appropriate frameworks and tools for qualitative and quantitative studies in psychology, sociology, business, market research, and other fields.