SAFA TRAINING DETAILS

Who Are ILS?

ILS is a well-established and highly respected provider of safety and security solutions to the not for profit sector – acting as preferred provider to some of the biggest, and some of the smallest, NGOs in the world.

All of ILS’ instructor team have extensive humanitarian and development backgrounds; they understand the humanitarian imperative and the critical role in security of personal and organisational Acceptance

What is SAFA?

Security Awareness and First Aid Training, or SAFA, is a giant leap forward in terms of hostile environment awareness training.

Over three days and two night SAFA courses offer participants an immersive, cost effective, risk appropriate and in depth learning experience which prepares them for the realities of living and working in hazardous, emergency or 'deep field' locations.

Course delegates are taught in three strands, which interlink throughout the course;

• Human Security - as well as understanding the operating space within which they will operate, delegates are taught about the human factors that affect their safety and security. Our team help the delegates to understanding the 'drivers' to violence, their own attitudes and appetites to it and will come away able to exert influence within the context of interpersonal violence.

• Hard Security - delegates will learn how to reduce their personal and team vulnerabilities to a range of threats, from Abduction to Blast Threats, from Vehicle Checkpoints to Weapon Threats, the team focus on current tactics and techniques employed by armed groups to ensure the learning is up to date and appropriate. Delegates will spend time with a former hostage who spent 15 months in captivity.

• First Aid in the Field- this portion of the course is taught in terms of delivering first aid in remote locations. Delegates are taught by international search and rescue medics who will teach the fundamentals of Basic Life Support; primary and secondary survey, managing traumatic injury and sustaining life when definitive care is not immediately available. The First Aid element of the course is a core component of the training and is mainstreamed throughout, not taught in isolation.

Specific Modules covered in our monthly courses are:

Operating Space Update

Personal Situational Awareness

Security and Contingency Planning

Communicating in an emergency

Vehicle Checkpoint Negotiation

Field Health and Wellness

Weapons Effects

Crowd Safety

First Aid

Inter-Personal Aggression

Kidnap Avoidance and Survival

Blast Threats

Journey Plans and Vehicle Safety

Road Traffic Accidents

Field Resilience

Sexual Violence

Post Traumatic Stress

Incident Reporting

Is SAFA for me?

If you are travelling to a very remote area, a humanitarian emergency or medium to high security risk settings, then yes, this is the course for you.

SAFA training will give you the skills to avoid some of the key threats you will face, and the tools to cope if things do go wrong.

Whether the threat be kidnapping, militancy or simply road traffic accidents, SAFA training has it covered, in a pragmatic and approachable way.

How can I book?

For more information or to book a place please email Rachel Felton on info@locationsafety.com or call +44 (0) 1273 833070.

SAFA Courses run once to twice a month in UK and regularly in USA, Kenya & Senegal. We also offer an alternative, field level SAFA for national staff.

To view our full course calendar please visit http://www.locationsafety.com/training

Background

Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Learning (MERL) is an integral part of every intervention. When systematically done, MERL makes it easy to articulate a project’s theory of change and to determine if envisaged results are being achieved. It also enables programme staff to draw lessons from what is working and recommend appropriate measures for what is not working. Though MERL is beneficial, many organizations and project staffs shy away from it because many see it as technical in nature, others find it time consuming and yet others fear negative appraisals. In spite of this, it is important for project staff to be equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills that would in turn allow them to effectively engage in MERL for the growth of their projects and their organizations.

Course objectives

1. Introduce participants to MERL from a peacebuilding perspective2. Enhance participants understanding of the various contextual tools of analysis applied in MERL in the peacebuilding practice

2. Build participants understanding of a project’s Theory of Change 4. Enhance participants’ skills in developing an evaluation and a learning agenda for their Peacebuilding projects

The Course Content

1.Introduction to monitoring and evaluation for conflict prevention and peacebuilding: In this session, participants will be introduced to MERL from the peacebuilding practice including an understanding of the different criteria that is used to assess the effectiveness of a peacebuilding project.

2.Contextual analysis tools: This session will introduce participants to the different contextual analysis tools used in MERL.

3.Developing effective monitoring tools for conflict prevention and peacebuilding: In this section, participants will be taken through the process of developing an MERL plan for their specific projects. The session will focus on creating a common understanding of what an MERL plan is, what it is used for, who is involved in its designing, the most appropriate time for its designing and who it is used on

4. Developing a Theory of Change: the session will focus on understanding what a Theory of change is, how it is developed, its relationship to the project cycle and who really should be involved in its designing. This session will enable participants broaden their knowledge of the project cycle and the logical linkages from one stage to the other. The session will examine how proposed project activities lead to the desired social change. At the end of the session, participants should be able to identify and expound on the various theories of change that inform their projects.

5. Evaluation and developing a learning agenda: The session will take participants through the concept of evaluation and its importance and applicability in projects, the different types of evaluation and audiences will also be discussed including how to develop an evaluation schedule for a project. At the end of the session, participants should be able to develop an evaluation schedule for their projects and to identify some learning agenda questions for their projects.

Filled in applications should be sent to COPA by email. Applications can be downloaded from the 'upcoming events' section on the COPA website<www.copafrica.org>. They can also be requested by writing to copa@copafrica.org. All received applications will be acknowledged and if successful a corresponding letter of admission and other necessary documentations will be sent to the applicant. Please send your completed application to copa@copafrica.org.

SAFA TRAINING DETAILS

Who Are ILS?

ILS is a well-established and highly respected provider of safety and security solutions to the not for profit sector – acting as preferred provider to some of the biggest, and some of the smallest, NGOs in the world.

All of ILS’ instructor team have extensive humanitarian and development backgrounds; they understand the humanitarian imperative and the critical role in security of personal and organisational Acceptance

What is SAFA?

Security Awareness and First Aid Training, or SAFA, is a giant leap forward in terms of hostile environment awareness training.

Over three days and two night SAFA courses offer participants an immersive, cost effective, risk appropriate and in depth learning experience which prepares them for the realities of living and working in hazardous, emergency or 'deep field' locations.

Course delegates are taught in three strands, which interlink throughout the course;

• Human Security - as well as understanding the operating space within which they will operate, delegates are taught about the human factors that affect their safety and security. Our team help the delegates to understanding the 'drivers' to violence, their own attitudes and appetites to it and will come away able to exert influence within the context of interpersonal violence.

• Hard Security - delegates will learn how to reduce their personal and team vulnerabilities to a range of threats, from Abduction to Blast Threats, from Vehicle Checkpoints to Weapon Threats, the team focus on current tactics and techniques employed by armed groups to ensure the learning is up to date and appropriate. Delegates will spend time with a former hostage who spent 15 months in captivity.

• First Aid in the Field- this portion of the course is taught in terms of delivering first aid in remote locations. Delegates are taught by international search and rescue medics who will teach the fundamentals of Basic Life Support; primary and secondary survey, managing traumatic injury and sustaining life when definitive care is not immediately available. The First Aid element of the course is a core component of the training and is mainstreamed throughout, not taught in isolation.

Specific Modules covered in our monthly courses are:

Operating Space Update

Personal Situational Awareness

Security and Contingency Planning

Communicating in an emergency

Vehicle Checkpoint Negotiation

Field Health and Wellness

Weapons Effects

Crowd Safety

First Aid

Inter-Personal Aggression

Kidnap Avoidance and Survival

Blast Threats

Journey Plans and Vehicle Safety

Road Traffic Accidents

Field Resilience

Sexual Violence

Post Traumatic Stress

Incident Reporting

Is SAFA for me?

If you are travelling to a very remote area, a humanitarian emergency or medium to high security risk settings, then yes, this is the course for you.

SAFA training will give you the skills to avoid some of the key threats you will face, and the tools to cope if things do go wrong.

Whether the threat be kidnapping, militancy or simply road traffic accidents, SAFA training has it covered, in a pragmatic and approachable way.

How can I book?

For more information or to book a place please email Rachel Felton on rachel.felton@locationsafety.com / info@locationsafety.com or call +44 (0) 1273 833070.

SAFA Courses run once to twice a month in UK and regularly in USA, Kenya & Senegal. We also offer an alternative, field level SAFA for national staff.

To view our full course calendar please visit http://www.locationsafety.com/training

SAFA TRAINING DETAILS

Who Are ILS?

ILS is a well-established and highly respected provider of safety and security solutions to the not for profit sector – acting as preferred provider to some of the biggest, and some of the smallest, NGOs in the world.

All of ILS’ instructor team have extensive humanitarian and development backgrounds; they understand the humanitarian imperative and the critical role in security of personal and organisational Acceptance

What is SAFA?

Security Awareness and First Aid Training, or SAFA, is a giant leap forward in terms of hostile environment awareness training.

Over three days and two night SAFA courses offer participants an immersive, cost effective, risk appropriate and in depth learning experience which prepares them for the realities of living and working in hazardous, emergency or 'deep field' locations.

Course delegates are taught in three strands, which interlink throughout the course;

• Human Security - as well as understanding the operating space within which they will operate, delegates are taught about the human factors that affect their safety and security. Our team help the delegates to understanding the 'drivers' to violence, their own attitudes and appetites to it and will come away able to exert influence within the context of interpersonal violence.

• Hard Security - delegates will learn how to reduce their personal and team vulnerabilities to a range of threats, from Abduction to Blast Threats, from Vehicle Checkpoints to Weapon Threats, the team focus on current tactics and techniques employed by armed groups to ensure the learning is up to date and appropriate. Delegates will spend time with a former hostage who spent 15 months in captivity.

• First Aid in the Field- this portion of the course is taught in terms of delivering first aid in remote locations. Delegates are taught by international search and rescue medics who will teach the fundamentals of Basic Life Support; primary and secondary survey, managing traumatic injury and sustaining life when definitive care is not immediately available. The First Aid element of the course is a core component of the training and is mainstreamed throughout, not taught in isolation.

Specific Modules covered in our monthly courses are:

Operating Space Update

Personal Situational Awareness

Security and Contingency Planning

Communicating in an emergency

Vehicle Checkpoint Negotiation

Field Health and Wellness

Weapons Effects

Crowd Safety

First Aid

Inter-Personal Aggression

Kidnap Avoidance and Survival

Blast Threats

Journey Plans and Vehicle Safety

Road Traffic Accidents

Field Resilience

Sexual Violence

Post Traumatic Stress

Incident Reporting

Is SAFA for me?

If you are travelling to a very remote area, a humanitarian emergency or medium to high security risk settings, then yes, this is the course for you.

SAFA training will give you the skills to avoid some of the key threats you will face, and the tools to cope if things do go wrong.

Whether the threat be kidnapping, militancy or simply road traffic accidents, SAFA training has it covered, in a pragmatic and approachable way.

How can I book?

For more information or to book a place please email Rachel Felton on rachel.felton@locationsafety.com / info@locationsafety.com or call +44 (0) 1273 833070.

SAFA Courses run once to twice a month in UK and regularly in USA, Kenya & Senegal. We also offer an alternative, field level SAFA for national staff.

To view our full course calendar please visit http://www.locationsafety.com/training

How can I book?

For more information or to book a place please email Rachel Felton on rachel.felton@locationsafety.com / info@locationsafety.com or call +44 (0) 1273 833070.

SAFA Courses run once to twice a month in UK and regularly in USA, Kenya & Senegal. We also offer an alternative, field level SAFA for national staff.

To view our full course calendar please visit http://www.locationsafety.com/training

Online Post GraduateDiploma inMonitoring and Evaluation (M/E)

Deadline for Registration: 31st August 2018

Mode of Learning: Online Learning

Start Date: 1^st September 2018 ;End Date: 31st August 2019 ( Twelve Months)

Course Duration: One Year (2 hours per day)

Strategia is an International management training organization that provides capacity building services in health. safety and security and in humanitarian actions.

Course Background

Monitoring and Evaluation is part and parcel of humanitarian and development work . M/E processes begin with project design through planning , project implementation and impact assessment. M/E systems help track plans and provide verifiable indicators for activities planned and implemented. It is a very important activity in decision making processes that affects the success or failure of a project.

The course takes the learners through Monitoring and Evaluation results chain from project planning, outputs, outcomes through impact.The course will help participants to understand the key elements of M/E such as information gathering , data collection and knowledge management which are key attributes in decision making for effective programme interventions.

Course Target

The course targets development professionals such as Monitoring and Evaluation Managers and M/E officers, researchers, planners, project managers and project officers keen on results based development. .

Why choose this course?
Monitoring and Evaluation has become a very important sector in development work.The course will be delivered by M/E practitioners with extensive field and technical on experience in project planning , project implementation and in M/E results based approaches. Monitoring and Evaluation has become one of the most marketable careers in humanitarian and development work.

ExpectedOutcomes

• Correlate Project Management to Monitoring and Evaluation
• Understand monitoring and evaluation and its functions and why M/E is important in development programming
• Describe the functions and main components of an M&E plan
• Understand conceptual and results frameworks as well as logic models
• Describe how logical frameworks are used for M&E planning
• Understand the criteria for the selection of indicators and describe how they are linked to frameworks
• Identify types of data sources, data analysis and data management
• Describe how M/E findings can be used for project decision-making and planning

Course Content Modules

• Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation
• Deciding on what and how to monitor during project design
• Deciding the key outputs and outcomes (results) expected of the programme
• Determining results using logic models
• Planning a project using the logical framework approach
• Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Matrix
• Indicators, Outputs, Outcomes and Impacts
• Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks
• Monitoring Plan
• Monitoring and Evaluation Tools and Methods
• Data collection , Data Analysis and Data Management
• Stakeholder Analysis
• M & E Reporting
• Communicating M&E findings to initiate learning, project improvement and project ownership
• Developing a practical Monitoring and Evaluation System for your project

Learning Plan

• Access to course materials on E-Learning Platform
• Online interaction with Course Moderator
• Monthly assignments
• Mid Term Examination
• Project Research Project
• End of Course Examination
• Certification

Course fee: Amount €1500

To register for this course, kindly contact:

The Training Manager

Strategia Netherlands

info@strategianetherlands.nl

www.strategianetherlands.nl

To register for this course, kindly contact:

The Training Manager

Strategia Netherlands

info@strategianetherlands.nl

www.strategianetherlands.nl

SAFA TRAINING DETAILS

Who Are ILS?

ILS is a well-established and highly respected provider of safety and security solutions to the not for profit sector – acting as preferred provider to some of the biggest, and some of the smallest, NGOs in the world.

All of ILS’ instructor team have extensive humanitarian and development backgrounds; they understand the humanitarian imperative and the critical role in security of personal and organisational Acceptance

What is SAFA?

Security Awareness and First Aid Training, or SAFA, is a giant leap forward in terms of hostile environment awareness training.

Over three days and two night SAFA courses offer participants an immersive, cost effective, risk appropriate and in depth learning experience which prepares them for the realities of living and working in hazardous, emergency or 'deep field' locations.

Course delegates are taught in three strands, which interlink throughout the course;

• Human Security - as well as understanding the operating space within which they will operate, delegates are taught about the human factors that affect their safety and security. Our team help the delegates to understanding the 'drivers' to violence, their own attitudes and appetites to it and will come away able to exert influence within the context of interpersonal violence.

• Hard Security - delegates will learn how to reduce their personal and team vulnerabilities to a range of threats, from Abduction to Blast Threats, from Vehicle Checkpoints to Weapon Threats, the team focus on current tactics and techniques employed by armed groups to ensure the learning is up to date and appropriate. Delegates will spend time with a former hostage who spent 15 months in captivity.

• First Aid in the Field- this portion of the course is taught in terms of delivering first aid in remote locations. Delegates are taught by international search and rescue medics who will teach the fundamentals of Basic Life Support; primary and secondary survey, managing traumatic injury and sustaining life when definitive care is not immediately available. The First Aid element of the course is a core component of the training and is mainstreamed throughout, not taught in isolation.

Specific Modules covered in our monthly courses are:

Operating Space Update

Personal Situational Awareness

Security and Contingency Planning

Communicating in an emergency

Vehicle Checkpoint Negotiation

Field Health and Wellness

Weapons Effects

Crowd Safety

First Aid

Inter-Personal Aggression

Kidnap Avoidance and Survival

Blast Threats

Journey Plans and Vehicle Safety

Road Traffic Accidents

Field Resilience

Sexual Violence

Post Traumatic Stress

Incident Reporting

Is SAFA for me?

If you are travelling to a very remote area, a humanitarian emergency or medium to high security risk settings, then yes, this is the course for you.

SAFA training will give you the skills to avoid some of the key threats you will face, and the tools to cope if things do go wrong.

Whether the threat be kidnapping, militancy or simply road traffic accidents, SAFA training has it covered, in a pragmatic and approachable way.

How can I book?

For more information or to book a place please email Rachel Felton on rachel.felton@locationsafety.com or info@locationsafety.com, or call +44 (0) 1273 833070.

SAFA Courses run once to twice a month in UK and regularly in USA, Kenya & Senegal. We also offer an alternative, field level SAFA for national staff.

To view our full course calendar please visit http://www.locationsafety.com/training

A commitment to performance measurement has become essential requirement and mandate of donor-funded projects, nongovernmental organizations, foundations, public and government agencies in response to increased demands to results-based management, value-for-money, do-more-for-less, effective and tangible delivery of project’s outcomes. In order to stand-out of the competition, organizations need not only to build results-oriented culture but to strive towards greater outcome-level changes targeting the improved welfare for beneficiaries.

Demonstrating results achieved is an accountability requirement not only to the funding agencies or to the implementing partners but also to project’s beneficiaries, national and governmental stakeholders as well. It all starts by properly designing development projects through clearly and logically outlaying potential multiple-layers of developmental outcomes. Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation plan is an essential management and progress-reporting document. M&E plans captures developmental indicators which are later used to effectively apply for additional funding and / or to successfully communicate and market projects achievements.

The training will cover the basics of performance measurement and looks at frameworks to explain how a program is understood to contribute to its intended or observed outcomes. It will also cover the definition of performance indicators, data collection tools and data sources. The course will provide ways into the analysis and reporting of performance information and how to use it in progress reporting and engaging stakeholders. The course will end up with an open discussion of the challenges and common problems that are faced by Monitoring and Evaluation Officers.

Learning Outcomes

• Equipping participants with the practical skills and the confidence needed to deliver the functions of Monitoring and Evaluation Officer more successfully
• Increased understanding of the inter-linkages and dependencies between planning, monitoring and evaluation functions
• Enhanced capacity to design development projects using results-based and logic-modeling concepts
• Improved capacity on how to develop a Project Monitoring & Evaluation Plan and use it as a project management tool
• Understand the various types of data collection tools and their proper usage

COURSE AGENDA

DAY 1:PROJECT DESIGN AND RESULTS FRAMEWORK

• Key M&E concepts, definitions and theories
• Purpose and uses of M&E
• Challenges of M&E
• Results Chain and Logic Modeling
• Cause, effect and results sphere of control

DAY 2:FROM PROJECT DESIGN TO ACTION

• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Types and Measurement
• Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (M&E Plan)
• Data collection tools: Qualitative and Quantitative
• Reporting M&E results

Additional Information

• This training course of instruction and practice is delivered over 2-days (12 hours).
• Presentations, training course materials and handouts are in English.
• Trainers are bilingual English / Arabic.

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Every day, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières aid workers from around the world provide assistance to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe—treating those most in need regardless of political, religious, or economic interest. Whether an emergency involves armed conflicts or epidemics, malnutrition or natural disasters, Doctors Without Borders is committed to bringing quality medical care to people caught in crisis.

On Wednesday, September 19th, medical and non-medical professionals are invited to join us for an evening presentation to learn more about how you can join Doctors Without Borders’ pool of dedicated aid workers.

An aid worker and Field Human Resources Officer will discuss requirements and the application process, and you'll meet experienced Doctors Without Borders aid workers from the area and hear their firsthand stories of "life in the field."

The presentation will last 90 minutes, including Q&A.

Doctors Without Borders recruits:

Medical Personnel:

• physicians
• nurses
• midwives

Operating Room Personnel:

• surgeons
• OBGYNs
• anesthesiologists
• nurse anesthetists
• operating room nurses

Para-Medical Personnel:

• epidemiologists
• mental health specialists
• pharmacists
• laboratory technicians
• health promoters

Non-Medical Personnel:

• technical logisticians
• water sanitation specialists
• supply logisticians
• financial administrators
• human resources administrators

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/doctors-without-borders-recruitment-info-session-milwaukee-wi-registration-48213487840

Space is limited. Please register at the website above to save your seat.

Course Description

This certificate course offered by the Human Rights Center of the University for Peace looks at the linkages between the environment, development, and human rights and examines how these linkages may assist efforts to protect both the environment and human rights. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the educational, legal and social aspects of this relationship. The course will address climate change, environmental degradation, mitigation and adaptation, migration, human rights based approaches to the environment, loss and damage, and the environment and human rights in the light of the post-2015 development agenda. Under the umbrella of international law and environmental sciences, the course will pay special attention to hybrid legal approaches on the environment and human rights, including as a potential strengthening and dispersing method to address the nexus of environment, human rights and mobility.

The course is based on a dynamic pedagogy including reading materials, video clips, case studies, and interactive webinars with the instructor.

This course can either be taken stand-alone or as part of the Professional Development Online Diploma on Sustainable Development and Human Rights.

Course outline

Week 1: Introduction to Environment, Development, and Human Rights Linkages
Week 2: Legal Approaches: Concepts, Mechanisms and Implementation
Week 3: Water and food security in the context of climate change
Week 4: Human Rights Based Approaches to Climate Change adaptation and mitigation
Week 5: New emerging legal nexus: Environment, human rights and mobility
Week 6: Addressing Human Rights and the Environment in the Post-2015 SDG Agenda
Who Should Apply

The course is intended for staff members of civil society organisations and (inter)governmental organisations involved in the fields of environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, policy making on environmental issues, development work, human rights, education, health etc. Candidates should have a good written command of English and have high competence and comfort with computer and Internet use.

About the Instructor

Dr. Cosmin Corendea serves as Associate Academic Officer for Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability and Adaptation Section at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), managing the Climate Change, Environment and Migration Alliance (CCEMA) which is a multi-stakeholder global partnership aiming to bring together actors representing a range of perspectives including migration, development, environment and human rights. He also coordinates the MRF Chair Project on Social Vulnerability initiating policy relevant research and organizes capacity-building in relation to climate change and resilience. He acts as focal point for legal issues (institutional vulnerabilities and adaptation, human rights, forced migration, etc.) associated with the adverse effects of climate change and comparative frameworks of social vulnerabilities and resilience, and as liaison officer to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the University for Peace (UPEACE) and the World Bank. Dr. Corendea holds the Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) distinction in International Legal Studies from Golden Gate University School of Law and he received his LL.M. in Intercultural Human Rights (hons.) from Saint Thomas University Law School.

To apply, please send an email to admissions@hrc.upeace.org along with your CV and a short Statement of Purpose (not more than 500 words) indicating the motivation for taking the course. Applicants will be contacted within three working days of the application. The course is limited to 25 participants.

Admissions are Open on a Rolling Basis!

Description of the Diploma

The Human Rights Centre of the United Nations mandated University for Peace is accepting applications for its Professional Development Diploma in Sustainable Development and Human Rights, courses for which can be taken entirely online. As the name suggests, this programme focuses on the human rights dimensions of sustainable development, with a major thrust on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals through human rights based approaches (HRBA). This Diploma, aimed at professionals seeking training for career development, can be obtained upon successful completion of five of the six online courses offered in the programme. Enrollments are open on a rolling basis and participants can join the programme at the beginning of any of the following six courses:

1. Development and Human Rights: 21 March – 01 May, 2018

2. Business, Human Rights, and Development: 16 May – 26 June, 2018

3. Child Rights and Development: 18 July – 28 August, 2018

4. Environment, Development, and Human Rights: 12 September – 23 October, 2018

5. Gender, Development, and Human Rights: 7 November – 18 December, 2018

6. Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Development: 16 January – 26 February, 2019

Each of these courses is also offered as a stand-alone certificate course, but participants can now obtain a professional development diploma by taking five of the aforementioned six courses which fall within the overarching theme of sustainable development and human rights. The diploma is designed in a way that participants develop incremental expertise in the different limbs of sustainable development and its linkages with human rights.

Who Should Apply

The course is intended for staff members of (inter)governmental and civil society organizations working in the interface between development and human rights work, including in the fields of rights protection, development aid, social responsibility, trade and investment, environment protection, indigeneity, gender, child rights etc. The course is also intended for staff members of (international) development agencies, academics and others interested in the aforesaid areas. (Post)Graduate students with specific research interests in these areas are also encouraged to apply. Candidates should have a good written command of English and have high competence and comfort with computer and Internet use.

To apply, please send an email to admissions@hrc.upeace.org along with your CV and a short Statement of Purpose (not more than 500 words) indicating the motivation for taking the diploma. Applicants will be contacted within three working days of the application.

About course

This training workshop is designed for monitoring and evaluation officers, for evaluators and freelance consultants, and for programme managers and users of evaluations of humanitarian action working for NGOs, donor organizations and other development and humanitarian organizations. Previous evaluation experience is not necessary, but some knowledge and experience of humanitarian action are required. The workshop will provide participants with practical knowledge and skills to manage, commission, and implement evaluations of humanitarian action.

Objectivesof the course

• The purpose of EHA - what is the reason for evaluating humanitarian action? What can evaluation achieve?
• Initiating and planning EHA - what steps should you take when commissioning and planning an evaluation, to ensure it is utilization-focused?
• Evaluation questions – how do you select your evaluation questions, and relate them to the standard evaluation criteria?
• Frameworks for evaluation - what frameworks can you use to assess performance against broader policies and standards?
• Evaluation methods - what are the typical evaluation methods in EHA? How can you use both qualitative methods and quantitative methods? Specifically, how can you consult the affected population?
• When access is constrained - how do you evaluate when you have limited or no direct access to affected people and geographic areas?
• Impact evaluation and real-time evaluation – how to plan and implement these particular types of evaluation, often in challenging contexts?
• Management - how can you manage the evaluation process to produce a robust evaluation? What challenges are you likely to encounter?
• From data to reports - how do you turn the findings from your fieldwork into a useful evaluation report?
• Use and dissemination of EHA - how can you promote change and improved performance based on your evaluation?
• Ethics - what ethical dilemmas are you likely to face and how can you deal with them?

Course Outcomes

The specific learning outcomes are the following:
• Greater clarity of the purpose and objectives of EHA, and of the principal challenges of doing EHA.
• Better understanding of how to select your evaluation questions, and of the most relevant frameworks against which humanitarian assistance should be evaluated.
• A practical approach to planning, designing, implementing and following through on evaluations of humanitarian assistance, including how to evaluate when access to the affected population is constrained.

Intended audience

This training workshop is designed for monitoring and evaluation officers, for evaluators and freelance consultants, and for programme managers and users of evaluations of humanitarian action working for NGOs, donor organizations and other development and humanitarian organisations.

Trainer:

Margie Buchanan-Smith
Margie is an experienced evaluator of humanitarian action, with UN agencies, NGOs and governments. She has led numerous evaluations, often in conflict environments; has managed and commissioned evaluations; and is regularly requested to act as a peer reviewer for humanitarian evaluations. Margie has 30 years’ experience of humanitarian action. She is a Senior Research Associate with the Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute in London, and is a Visiting Fellow with the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University. She is an accomplished trainer and also a qualified and experienced coach. She has been co-facilitating EHA trainings for eleven years.

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Every day, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières aid workers from around the world provide assistance to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe—treating those most in need regardless of political, religious, or economic interest. Whether an emergency involves armed conflicts or epidemics, malnutrition or natural disasters, Doctors Without Borders is committed to bringing quality medical care to people caught in crisis.

On Thursday, September 20th, medical and non-medical professionals are invited to join us for an evening presentation to learn more about how you can join Doctors Without Borders’ pool of dedicated aid workers.

An aid worker and Field Human Resources Officer will discuss requirements and the application process, and you'll meet experienced Doctors Without Borders aid workers from the area and hear their firsthand stories of "life in the field."

The presentation will last 90 minutes, including Q&A.

Doctors Without Borders recruits:

Medical Personnel:

• physicians
• nurses
• midwives

Operating Room Personnel:

• surgeons
• OBGYNs
• anesthesiologists
• nurse anesthetists
• operating room nurses

Para-Medical Personnel:

• epidemiologists
• mental health specialists
• pharmacists
• laboratory technicians
• health promoters

Non-Medical Personnel:

• technical logisticians
• water sanitation specialists
• supply logisticians
• financial administrators
• human resources administrators

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/doctors-without-borders-recruitment-info-session-madison-wi-registration-48078000594

Space is limited. Please register at the website above to save your seat.

We are pleased to announce our Autumn-Winter training schedule.

IPDTC- the International Peace and Development Training Centre- programmes have been run all over the world for the last 20 years – for practitioners on the ground, staff of UN missions and agencies, governments and senior conflict and political leadership. Our programmes are designed to be skills and knowledge intensive, highly practical, and drawing from on-the-ground experience in peacebuilding and addressing conflicts from around the world. We have several Autumn-Winter programmes this year in both London and Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Applications are being accepted for:

Local Governance & Sub-National Peacebuilding, Social Cohesion and Violence Prevention

Date and Location: 22^nd-25^th October, London

Making Mediation & Peace Processes Work: Peacemaking in Deeply Divided Societies and Challenging Contexts

Date and Location: 19^th- 21^st November, London

Designing and Implementing Effective Monitoring and Evaluation for Development, Peacebuilding & Humanitarian Operations

Date and Location: 22^nd -24^th November, London

Designing for Impact: Improving the Quality, Impact and Effectiveness of Peacebuilding and Development Programming-

Date and Location: 3^rd -7^th December, Cluj-Napoca

Please email training@patrir.ro and visit https://patrir.ro/en/trainingcentre/upcoming-programs/ for more information.

To register for a training, please send us an e-mail at: training@patrir.ro

Even though you have a non-profit intention, you need to sell your idea!

Background:

For organizations to provide relief and development services, a proper and accurate fundraising strategy is the key for sustainable survival. This strategy can encompass participation in large donor’s solicitation programs and activities that can generate resources for non-profit activities.

We come up with this course to address the “research-based” needs of development workers and managers for fundraising that is inclusive and result-oriented. This comprehensive five-day training workshop will ensure the participants bring a positive change in their organization’s fundraising strategies.

General Notes:

• As an open course, this program is offered in specific destinations. However, as an in-house training it can be offered at any part of the globe.
• Accord Worldwide can offer this training in other languages than English, please contact us for your needs.

Benefits:

This training will help you to learn:

• Mission and vision of a non-profit organization
• Who should be involved in fundraising
• Who can support and how
• Focus on impact of your work and let people know
• Functional strategies for fundraising
• Online fundraising
• Fundraising activities and sustainable revenue for non-profits
• Linking your donors with beneficiaries

Who should attend?

This course is not useful, but necessary for any level of management, team leaders, NGO directors, CEOs, business owners, and project manager. It also helps Consultants, and freelancers.

• Fee:

Training fee varies for each location and can be found on course page on accordemy.com. The fee includes the course certificate, training materials, lunch and refreshments, one social program at the end of the training, and tuition fee.

Not included in the fee are: Visa Costs, Airfare cost, Accommodation, Travel Insurance, Dinner and any personal expense of the participant.

Visit the course page on our website: Fundraising for Non Profit Organizations
send an email to: admissions@accordemy.com or request a call back from our website: http://accordemy.com

Every day, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières aid workers from around the world provide assistance to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe—treating those most in need regardless of political, religious, or economic interest.

The “Footsteps of a Fieldworker” tour is designed for medical and non-medical professionals interested in working with MSF in the field. Come learn how MSF field staff provide aid to refugees around the world. Find out who we need, register for this tour and bring your recruitment questions.

Forced From Home is a free, interactive, outdoor educational exhibition presented by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to raise public awareness about the experience of the world’s more than 68.5 million refugees and internally displaced people. Throughout the guided tour, visitors hear from MSF aid workers who provide humanitarian relief on the front lines of the refugee crisis. The immersive experience includes virtual reality and 360° videos that take participants to Iraq, Lebanon, Mexico, Tanzania and South Sudan.

Space is limited. Please register to save your seat.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/footsteps-of-a-fieldworker-tour-minneapolis-mn-registration-48046351932

Space is limited. Please register at the website above to save your seat.

The first international course on Disaster and Emergency Health Preparedness and Response will be held by Tehran University Medical of Sciences at 25th-29th August, 2018. This course focuses on the following topics:

• Basic of Emergency Preparedness and Response Mechanisms
• EOC
• ICS
• Major Incident Management
• Emergency Preparedness Exercises
• Hazards
• Field and Tactical Medical Response

For further information, please contact to this email address: ostadtaghizadeh@gmail.com

Online Diploma in WaterHygiene andSanitation(WASH)

Deadline for Registration: 31st August 2018

Mode of Learning: Online Learning

Start Date: 1st September 2018 ;End Date: 28th February 2019

Course Duration: Six Months (2 hours per day)

Course Background

According to UNICEF, every ninety seconds, a child dies due to water borne diseases .At the same time, one in every ten people cannot access safe water while three in every ten people in the world lack access to a toilet.

Globally over 2.8 billion people lack quality water and sanitation facilities while over 780 million people drink water that is considered unsafe. Unsafe water and sanitation services, coupled with poor hygiene practices, kill and incapacitate millions of children leading to deprivation and minimised opportunities for many more.

This course introduces learners to the core principles of designing, planning, implementing and evaluating projects to improve access to water supply and sanitation facilities and improve hygiene behaviours among communities especially in the developing countries.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the six months course, the learner will be able to:

· Understand WASH issues and relate them with public health and development challenges in developing countries.

· Understand the dynamics and technical issues of water supply, waste management ,drainage and relate them to effective community hygiene promotion interventions.

· Develop competence for budgeting and allocation of resources for WASH programming.

· Acquire skills to design, monitor and evaluate WASH programmes

Target Group

The course targets community mobilizers ,hygiene promoters, WASH managers, project officers, project assistants,public and community health officers, WASH consultants, as well development and humanitarian staff interested in WASH programming.

Course Content

Module1. Introduction to Water,Hygiene and Sanitation

Definitions of water, sanitation and hygiene programmes and types of WASH Programs and interventions.

Module 2. Hygiene Promotion

Community involvement in WASH Programming, needs assessment,community participation and engagement, community water supply systems, human waste disposal methods, waste management, gender issues in WASH programming.

Module3. Disease Preventionand Management

Defining communicable diseases, types of communicable diseases, disease transmission and prevention, disease control and management, disease outbreak, investigation processes and management.

Module4. Hygiene Education and Health Awareness

Health education and hygiene promotion definitions. The role of hygiene promoters, communication methods and strategies, information and communication materials development, behaviour change communication approaches.

Module5. Environmental Health Hazards

Definitions, biological hazards, chemical hazards, material and natural hazards, identification of hazards and analysis, hazards prevention, control and management.

Module 6. Community Participation in WASH

Defining Community Participation and Involvement, Planning for community involvement and participation, Stakeholder Analysis and resource mobilization for WASH Programmes.

Module7. WASH in Public Institutions

WASH in schools, refugee camps, prisons, markets, urban areas ,slums, rural areas, business set ups etc. Case studies and lessons learnt in WASH in public institutions.

Module 8. Monitoring and Evaluation of WASH Projects

M/E Definitions, Designing and planning projects, Indicators, outputs, outcomes, impact (results), M & E plan, types of M & E, steps in monitoring and evaluation, logical framework models, developing M & E tools, data collection plan, data analysis, data management and communicating M/E outcomes.

Module 9. Technical Issues in Wash Programming

Water collection points, Water treatment, construction of septic tanks and Toilets, Drilling Boreholes, Modern methods of Waste Management.

Learning Plan

· Access to course materials on E-Learning Platform

· Online interaction with Course Moderators

· Monthly assignments

· 20 Page Project Paper

· End of Course Examination

· Certification

Cost: Amount€10**00 per Person**

The Training Manager

Strategia Netherlands

info@strategianetherlands.nl

www.strategianetherlands.nl

Fee information:Fee information:The course costs €1000 per Person. This fee caters for course registration, e-learning moderation, course materials, examination and certificate.

HOW TO REGISTER:

Kindly send an expression of interest to:

The Training Manager

Strategia Netherlands

info@strategianetherlands.nl

www.strategianetherlands.nl

To register for this course, kindly contact:

The Training Manager

Strategia Netherlands

info@strategianetherlands.nl

www.strategianetherlands.nl

OnlineDiploma inMonitoring and Evaluation (M/E)

Deadline for Registration: 31st August 2018

Mode of Learning: Online Learning

Start Date: 1st August 2018 ;End Date: 28th February 2019

Course Duration: Six Months (2 hours per day)

Strategia is an International management training organization that provides capacity building services in health, safety and security and in humanitarian actions.

Course Background

Monitoring and Evaluation is part and parcel of humanitarian and development work . M/E processes begin with project design through planning , project implementation and impact assessment. M/E systems help track plans and provide verifiable indicators for activities planned and implemented. It is a very important activity in decision making processes that affects the success or failure of a project.

The course takes the learners through Monitoring and Evaluation results chain from project planning, outputs, outcomes through impact.The course will help participants to understand the key elements of M/E such as information gathering , data collection and knowledge management which are key attributes in decision making for effective programme interventions.

Course Target

The course targets development professionals such as Monitoring and Evaluation Managers and M/E officers, researchers, planners, project managers and project officers keen on results based development. .

Why Choose this Course?
Monitoring and Evaluation has become a very important sector in development work.The course will be delivered by M/E practitioners with extensive field and technical on experience in project planning , project implementation and in M/E results based approaches. Monitoring and Evaluation has become one of the most marketable careers in humanitarian and development work.

ExpectedOutcomes

· Correlate Project Management to Monitoring and Evaluation

· Understand monitoring and evaluation and its functions and why M/E is important in development programming

· Describe the functions and main components of an M&E plan

· Understand conceptual and results frameworks as well as logic models

· Describe how logical frameworks are used for M&E planning

· Understand the criteria for the selection of indicators and describe how they are linked to frameworks

· Identify types of data sources, data analysis and data management

· Describe how M/E findings can be used for project decision-making and planning

Course Content

• Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation
• Deciding on what and how to monitor during project design
• Deciding the key outputs and outcomes (results) expected of the programme
• Determining results using logic models
• Planning a project using the logical framework approach
• Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Matrix
• Indicators, Outputs, Outcomes and Impacts
• Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks
• Monitoring Plan
• Monitoring and Evaluation Tools and Methods
• Data collection , Data Analysis and Data Management
• Stakeholder Analysis
• M & E Reporting
• · Communicating M&E findings to initiate learning, project improvement and project ownership
• · Developing a practical Monitoring and Evaluation System for your project

Learning Protocol

• Access to course materials on E-Learning Platform
• Online interaction with Course Moderators
• Monthly Assignments
• Project Paper
• Examination
• Certification

Course fee: Amount €1**000**

To register for this course, kindly contact:

The Training Manager

Strategia Netherlands

info@strategianetherlands.nl

www.strategianetherlands.nl

To register for this course, kindly contact:

The Training Manager

Strategia Netherlands

info@strategianetherlands.nl

www.strategianetherlands.nl

4 Scholarships Available – MSc in Civil Engineering for Mitigation of Risk from Natural Hazards: Applications Open

There are 4 scholarships available for the 2018/2019 academic year, specifically addressed to students who will enrol with the MSc programme CivRisk::

• 2 Full scholarships of 6’000 Euro/year (corresponding to a contribution for the costs for accommodation and fees, for the entire duration of the MSc programme, i.e. two years);
• 2 Partial scholarships of 3’000 Euro/year (corresponding to a partial contribution to the costs for fees or accommodation, for the entire duration of the MSc programme, i.e. two years).

The amounts above are gross (pre-tax) and may be subjected to income taxation depending on the personal financial situation/arrangements of the students.

The scholarships will be assigned by the Selection Committee, on a merit basis. Applications for the scholarships must be submitted by the 31st of August 2018. Details about the application procedure can be found here.

Students who will enrol with the MSc programme CivRisk and will not be awarded the above scholarships will have anyway the possibility to apply for the EDISU benefits. More information here.

http://civrisk.unipv.it/admission/how-to-apply/

Note:We offer special discounts on course fees for participants from humanitarian and relief background. Please get in touch with our course registration team for details.

Overview:

This training program aids in helping officers manage a vulnerable witness while empowering them with knowledge of legislature and tools that will assist this process. The training program outline is up to date and pertinent to marketplace requirements, thus catering well to all analytical prediction of training needs in the specified area. A customised proposal can also be arranged, to suit the training requirement of your team.

Who should attend?

Police officers, local government officers, humanitarian and relief workers working in hostile environments, and all types of investigators.

Course Objectives:

Delegates will gain knowledge and skills to:

• Have a working knowledge of the list of legal definitions of vulnerability or intimated witnesses
• Identify the special measures which can be made available to vulnerable or intimated witnesses
• Recognise quality of service, equality of opportunity and community, cultural and race relations issues with regard to the vulnerable and intimidated witnesses
• Recognising emotions and addressing vulnerability
• Key protection issues

General Notes

• All our courses can be facilitated as Customized In-House Training course.
• Course duration is flexible and the contents can be modified to fit any number of days.
• As for Open Enrolment Courses, we offer our clients the flexibility to chose the location, date, and time and our team of experts who are spread around the globe will assist in facilitating the course.
• The course fee includes facilitation, training materials, 2 coffee breaks, buffet lunch and a Certificate of successful completion of Training.
• FREE Consultation and Coaching provided during and after the course.

Please visit the course page on our website and use the register option to send an online registration request: Interviewing vulnerable and intimidated witnesses course page