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TRAINING OF TRAINERS (HPM TRAINING) - November 26th to 30th 2012, Lyons, France Objective : To provide participants with the appropriate methods and tools to develop, facilitate, monitor and evaluate capacity-building activities.

Nepal loses an average of two lives a day due to natural disasters. These disasters include floods, landslides, drought, hail, avalanches, glacial lake floods and earthquakes. According to the EM-DAT 2009 database, earthquakes and floods are the biggest hazard in terms of mortality, affected populations and economic losses – and this in a country recovering from conflict, with a rapidly increasing, and increasingly urban, population, poverty and poor economic growth. While flooding poses an annual problem, a mega-earthquake – which could occur at any time – will kill more than 100,000 people just in the Kathmandu Valley, seriously injure another…

Facing the complexity of contemporary crises, humanitarian workers have to develop a variety of skills and competences to cope with situations of armed conflict, epidemics, “natural” catastrophes and social exclusion. To respond to these needs, the Geneva Center for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH) offers several accredited courses, drawing on Geneva’s network of international institutions and nongovernmental organisations.

  Dear Madam, dear Sir,Channel Research is accepting participants for our upcoming training in:Improved Performance in Addressing Conflict: Training in Evaluation Applied To Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding initiatives23-25 May, 2012 intermediate level, BelgiumThis course is intended for people who have already engaged in evaluations, or who have carried out work in peace-building and conflict prevention. Specific experience in conflict resolution evaluation is not required. The aim is to enable professionals who will commission or carry out an evaluation to better understand the fundamental concepts used in this field and to allocate resources in an optimal way, whether this relates to…

The Sungi Development Foundation has worked in the areas affected by the South Asian earthquake since it was set up in 1989. Its key areas of focus are poverty alleviation, good governance, gender equity and policy advocacy on behalf of deprived and marginalised communities. However, Sungi has also become increasingly involved in humanitarian assistance, and has gradually been developing its preparedness and response capacity. This article describes Sungi’s humanitarian response in the wake of the earthquake in October 2005. Sungi’s humanitarian response capacity Sungi is one of Pakistan’s few NGOs engaged in developing its humanitarian response capacity, and integrating disaster…

When a disaster happens, a plethora of well-meaning individuals and organisations of all shapes and sizes rush to the stricken area. Resources are mobilised and staff deployed to the disaster zone. What we then find is that the provision and delivery of services and goods are often far from adequate for the needs encountered locally. Goodwill is not good enough. To ensure appropriateness, accountability, harmonisation and sustainability, policies, procedures and practices need to be streamlined, and ownership by the recipients of aid ensured. For this to happen, dialogue between the different stakeholders needs to be facilitated, information properly managed and…

The 8 October earthquake had a devastating impact on the media in affected areas. Dozens of journalists were killed or went missing, and newspaper offices, broadcasting facilities and press clubs were destroyed. The capacity of the local media was significantly reduced, and local and national outlets struggled to respond adequately to the tragedy with news and information about the nature and scale of the earthquake and the progress of the relief effort. The media response Pakistanis first learnt of the disaster from private television channels and FM radio stations. It took a couple of hours before the state-owned electronic media…

During the war years from 1998 to 2000, one of the main tasks of the UN human rights programme in Sierra Leone was to accurately and comprehensively report on the human rights situation so that the Security Council and other policy and advocacy actors could address the patterns of abuse which underlay the conflict. In order to undertake this monitoring task, the UN programme engaged closely with national and international humanitarian partners. On numerous occasions aid workers were the primary source of human rights-related information; over time, a trusting and effective partnership developed between aid workers and monitors . Five…

DFID's policy on humanitarian and conflict issues was drawn up over 5 years ago. More recent developments such as the Good Humanitarian Donorship Initiative and the UN Humanitarian Reform Agenda mean that it is now timely for DFID, as a significant humanitarian donor, to update its policy. This is intended to help guide DFID staff to implement its Good Humanitarian Donorship commitments on the ground. We are consulting other UK government departments, other donors, and our implementing partners in the international humanitarian community. Comments on the policy document should be sent by e-mail to DFID via humanitarianpolicyconsultation@dfid.gov.uk by 28th February…

The emergency response to the 2004 tsunami in India demonstrates once more that, while disasters are class- and caste-neutral, those on the margins feel their impact much more severely. Marginalised people live in precarious conditions that increase their vulnerability to disasters. When viewed in this light, accountability to affected communities needs to go well beyond the provision of relief and rehabilitation, so that they regain their pre-disaster level. Accountability needs to empower them – socially and economically – to build their resilience and protection from future disasters. Accountability should not just be about the final outcome, but also the degree…