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The Role of Learning in Building ResilienceChris Cattaway
Who is this guy?
Telecommunications :Engineer & Project Manager
Envisioning & Catalysing Transformational ChangeProgramme ManagementLeadership and Team workshopsInterim ManagementICT4D
FacilitationTrainingface2face &virtual classroom
Private Sector & Development Sector:Consultant and Trainer
NZ, APAC & Internationally
CBHA (StartNetwork) - DfIDHPA - AusAIDHumanitarian Leadership Academy
Oxfam
“We are caught in a race between thegrowing size of the humanitarian challenge,and our ability to cope; between humanityand catastrophe…this is not a race that weare winning”
Lord Ashdown,British Government’sHumanitarianEmergency ResponseReview 2011
Who Comprises the HumanitarianSector?
UN
iNGOs
Red Cross / Crescent
Local NGOs/CSOs
International Governments
National Governments
Local Governments
Faith-based groups
Businesses
People Affected by Disaster
Military
Academia
Media
Social Media
Schools
Customers
Suppliers
Relatives
Institutional Donors
Emergency Services Civil Society Groups
The World has changed…
Do you have experienceof humanitarian sectorlearning?
Typically – Humanitarian Sector Learning
• Multiple sources• Lack of clear career pathways• Explosion of learning and development offers• Short-term funding• Fragmented approaches to capacity strengthening• Inaccessible humanitarian knowledge• Poor links• Poor access• Little systematic evidence or learning of what
works and what doesn’t• Variable Quality of Content and Delivery
What Do Stakeholders Want?
• Something Different• Build to Adapt to the Future / Agile• Not competing for Power or Status• Don’t be afraid to use technology• Not Fragmented – more like a “movement”• Build by and for tomorrow’s generation’s paradigms
(e.g. Games)• Flat Governance – stakeholders decide what’s valuable• Facilitate stakeholders to “discover the problems” and create
their own solutions rather than prescriptive(contextualisation)
• Link Users with Providers / “signposting” - not onlyproviding “training” – includes quality assurance guidance
Where are most Humanitarian Organisations?
A Blended Approach to Learning
Quality Assurance
Content Delivery
The Humanitarian Leadership Academyin the next five years the Academy will…
• 10 Centres reaching communities in >40 countries.Philippines, Kenya Middle East …..
• Digital System with local portals, including Marketplace• Train 100,000 aid workers from >50 countries• Formally Certify skills of >150,000 frontline responders
from disaster-prone countries• Database of certified trainers, volunteers and aid workers• >100 case studies• Partnerships to ensure more cohesive learning –
professional development• Comprehensive training programme for most senior
humanitarian workers Budget years 1-5 = $100million
DfID £20million initially
