Training Centre authored course
Humanitarian Operations and External Assistance (CPD4)
Classroom
This unit uses the mechanism of an extended humanitarian emergency narrative to develop a
systematic understanding of the concepts, theories and practical planning and response issues
relating to national and international external assistance operation. Participants will learn from
international best practice in integrating such elements within their own national disaster
management framework; including national and international systems and procedures,
operational design and the management of operations, assessing impact and understanding the
needs and perceptions of the vulnerable.
Includes:
- Assessment
Objectives
- Practical strategies to build ownership of, and commitment to, national offers of external
assistance. - Peer reviewed best-practices to review and develop new and existing systems.
- Best practice strategies to improve own contribution to international response and interoperability.
- Best practice stategies to design and implement assistance with clear exit strategies
Program Content
- MOUs & Protocols for External Assistance
- Developing Specified and Implied Tasks
- Target Audiences: Roles & Responsibilities
- Target Audiences: Needs & Attitudes
- International Standards for Assistance
- Impact Assessment & Leadership
- Communicating with Communities
- Developing Transition Strategies
- Logistics & Planning
- Developing a Corporate Strategy
- Foreign Policy and External AssistanceMonitoring & Evaluating
