Security and Humanitarian Action Training

This course aims to promote appropriate and effective humanitarian civil-military interactions in humanitarian emergencies through bolstered knowledge and understanding of Security and Humanitarian Action standards and principles and adherence to them. This includes the use of military and civil defence assets (MCDA) to better support the humanitarian community in delivering urgently needed goods and services to affected communities and people-in-need.

At the end of this training event, humanitarian, civilian and military emergency responders will perform their task(s) more confidently by:

a. Applying communication and persuasion techniques to overcome unintended consequences and obstacles in security-humanitarian coordination/interaction.

b. Identifying country-level entry points to the humanitarian system and optimising security support, e.g. achieving acceptable risk, contributing to humanitarian access, for the delivery of humanitarian programs.

c. Connecting and collaborating with civil society organizations through United Nations Organizations (ONU).

d. Utilizing UN-CMCoord concepts to advance collaboration between domestic humanitarian, development and peace & security institutions.

e. Reviewing existing formal and informal coordination platforms/centres from a multi-dimensional (civilian, military, police) perspective.