Who are the Humanitarian Professionals?

• What is certification? Why bother?

• Core Competences. What are they?

• Improving the fit with universities

• Why is the creation of an IHPA the priority starting point?

• Summary of the recommendations included in the report

Demographics

All Workers = 595,000. Relief Workers = 210,800. 6% pa growth

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Oxfam GB Employees

= 4.41% of workforce

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595,000 aid workers

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Where are they from?

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Definitions

• CertificateOfficial document recording a particular fact,

event or level of achievement – different in US from UK.

•CertificationA declaration of an individual’s professional

competence, based on passing a voluntary assessment created by the professional group in which the person works.

•AccreditationA process of external quality review used by

those bodies that approve the orgs that provide certification

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Certification Routes

•Curriculum-based Completion of subject-based professional education

•Competency-based Demonstrate mastery of a common body of

knowledge through examinations, education and experience

•Portfolio-based (Accreditation of Prior Learning) Extensive documentation. Show competencies are

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Certificates

Training groups,

accredited trainers

Training groups,

accredited trainers

Accredited by

whom?

Certified by

whom

Recognised Certificate Recognised Certificate

TrainingTraining

Core curriculum developed by whom?

Curriculum

Competency

Portfolio

Curriculum

Competency

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Certified Training

• Level 1 Basic need to know (Entry)

• Level 2 Project management (1-2 years)

• Level 3 Country Manager (5 years)

• Masters level degree

Existing initiatives

• Humanitarian Competencies Project (HCP), WVI

• IFRC Field School Training module

• CARE

• BIOFORCE

• SCF

• HLA/CILT/LLA/Fritz

• HPCR/PHAP

• InterAction/INSSA

• LINGOS/PM4NGOs

• RedR

• UNDPA volunteer teacher helps children with their studies at a child-friendly space in the Kiliveddy Transit Centre for IDP families in Mutter Division, Trincomolee District, Sri Lanka. Credit: Brennon Jones/IRIN

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History

Core Competencies: Skills and Behaviours

Managing Yourself

Managing Yourself

Working with Others

Working with Others

Achieving Results

Achieving Results

Using Resources

Using Resources

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Core Competencies: Skills and Behaviours

Managing Yourself

• Resilience

Managing Yourself

• Resilience

Core Competencies: Skills and Behaviours

Working with Others

• Cultural Sensitivity

Working with Others

• Cultural Sensitivity

Core Competencies: Skills and Behaviours

Achieving Results

• Assessing Needs

Achieving Results

• Assessing Needs

Core Competencies: Skills and Behaviours

Using Resources

• Managing technology

Using Resources

• Managing technology

Core Competencies: Knowledge

• Livelihoods, gender, protection and other cross-cutting issues.

• The structure of the humanitarian sector

• International humanitarian law

• Quality assurance mechanisms

• Safety and security issues

• Humanitarian mandates and principles

University Masters degrees

• Liverpool/Bioforce

• Oxford Brookes

• The University of Leicester

• University of East Anglia

• University of Hertfordshire

UK

• University of Salford

• London University

• University of Glamorgan

• Vilnius University

• Noha Universities across

Europe

• Australian National

University

• University of New South

Wales

• Deakin University

• Royal Roads University

• Tufts University

Age of degree programmes

Average annual enrolment

First choice course

Managing people and organisations

Theories of Risk & Crisis

Contemporary World Development

Integrated Emergency Management and Resilience

Principles of Disaster Mitigation and Reconstruction (30 credits)

Social Impact Studies in the Project Cycle (12 Units)

The Economic Development Record

Personal Preparedness for Disasters

Foundations of Human Security and Peace-building

Disaster and Emergency Management in Theory

Complex Emergencies

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Humanitarian standard for masters degrees

IHLPublic Health

ProjectManagement

Human Rights

An Academic Study Association

• Forum for core competencies

• Push the research

• Internationalize the field

• http://www.ihsa.info

Rescue workers treat an injured survivor in Leogane, Haiti, Jan 2010 Credit: Phuong Tran/IRIN

Which type of associations below do you think are the most important to establish?

A Humanitarian Professionals’ Association

• Of, for and by the people

• Sets standards

• Certifies members

• Can expel members

• Is independent

A child is weighed at a local dispensary in western Kenya. Credit: Allan Gichigi/IRIN

Employer Recognition

• Sponsoring employers

Encourage certification

Require certification?

Ensures transferability of skills between organisations

What might the system look like?

Professional Association

National Spin off

Accredited training groups

Certified training

Trainer accreditation

Criteria for membershi

pEmployers

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3

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7

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Proposal Summary

1. Professional Association

2. Certified Training

3. Certification Routes

4. Core Competencies

5. Accredited Trainers

6. Academic Association

7. Core Curriculum

8. Employer Recognition