The ability to negotiate is one of the most shared and used soft skills among Humanitarian workers. From Head of Mission to truck driver, almost all personnel involved in humanitarian operations does negotiate, every day, on various topics ranging from access to protection. Interestingly though, despite the sensitivity of negotiation and its potential positive or negative impact on humanitarian organizations and interventions, the recognition of the need to prepare and train current and future relief workers in this regard is fairly recent. The first humanitarian negotiation manual was issued in 2004, and it is only in the last decade that systematic training on humanitarian negotiation was developed and provided to humanitarian staff and teams. This course introduces you to the planning and implementation of humanitarian negotiations, including context analysis and engagement with interlocutors. The adult-education and experiential methodology approach of the course, based on real case scenarios and role play, enables you to get first-hand experience of soft skills and inter-personal competences required for negotiation in humanitarian action.

The course is planned as an online training from June 8 to 10. It is eligible for the Certificate of Advanced Studies at the academy for humanitarian action in the area of "Foundations of Humanitarian Action". The course fee covers the costs for participation as well as catering during the course.

This course is an introduction to QGIS; it is a crash course for regular, “non-technical” people who are interested in using maps in their professional life but don’t know where to start: Exploring data is already a key competence for a wide range of positions ranging from politics to energy, journalism to humanitarian work. There is a wealth of geo-spatial data available (think how often Google maps is used) and this trend will only increase, yet very few people know how to engage with these information. Mapping data to make complex ideas and schemes understandable in a matter of seconds is the next step to increase the impact and reach of complex ideas. This course is the basic training needed to understand the fundamental concepts of mapping and become autonomous and confident in using maps in a professional setting.

The course is planned as an online event from June 13 to 15 and 17 and includes regular breaks.

Protection mainstreaming is the process of incorporating protection principles in all humanitarian programming. Its aim is to prioritize safety, dignity, meaningful access, accountability, participation and empowerment in the design, implementation and assessment of humanitarian response. Protection needs and capacities to cope with situations are specific to vulnerable groups and context. Various protection standards exist to inform how these needs and capacities can be addressed and supported. Nevertheless, humanitarian NGOs still face challenges to equally integrate existing protection standards in their humanitarian programmes. This two-day training aligns with the Global Protection Cluster’s understanding of protection mainstreaming and aims to engage you in discussions and learning around the definitions and principles of protection and protection mainstreaming. It will cover different practical components of mainstreaming protection in humanitarian programming. It will not cover protection of humanitarian staff or protection of civilians in terms of security-related topics.

The training is planned as a face-to-face event in Berlin on 21 and 22 June 2022. The sessions include regular breaks. Further details will follow shortly via our newsletter.