Saving lives and protecting livelihoods through relief assistance
Next course
- To be announced
Registration and course fees
Early bird fee / Full fee :
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10% discount for returning students (within 12 months since the last course) or additional course participants from same organisation.
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Course overview
Click here to download the course leaflet (PDF format).
This course aims at presenting the chronological steps to be undertaken when planning and implementing a relief intervention. The course covers the main approaches of emergency relief, including an introduction to nutritional assessments, and focuses on the planning and implementation of various types of relief interventions.
Relief interventions aim primarily at saving lives and protecting livelihoods at immediate risk. This is achieved by providing access to the economic goods essential for the survival of the targeted population when they can no longer obtain these by their own means.
A relief intervention consists of the distribution of one of the following items, or a combination thereof: food, essential household items (EHI), seeds and tools, cash, vouchers, in-kind grants, veterinary vaccines and drugs, animals, etc.
This course gives the opportunity for each participant to practice methods and tools.
This course is also available in French. Ce cours peut également être animé en français.
Who should attend
The course will benefit in particular:
- Programme coordinators
- Project managers
- Team leaders
- Key field and HQ staff involved in relief operations
- Heads of office and managers
How you and your organisation will benefit – Learning Objectives
At the end of the course, participants have understood the use of various relief means and techniques and are able to plan and implement a relief intervention.
Course programme
The training course is based on a series of modules, which can be adapted to the requirements of the course participants. The emphasis is on practice and exercises and includes customised learning materials:
- Case studies with group work
- Simulation
- Role play
- Participatory approach
- Short presentations
| Day 1 | Main concepts and approaches of emergency relief • Introduction to relief interventions • From needs assessment to relief response and distribution • From relief to recovery: the crisis scheme • How to assess the nutritional situation |
| Day 2 | Types of assistance: What to distribute • Relief commodities & services • Seeds & tools • Livestock support • Cash and vouchers • Food and Essential Household Items (EHI) |
| Day 3 | How to implement a distribution of goods Step 1: Selection & Registration of Beneficiaries Step 2: Ordering commodities Step 3: Planning the distribution Step 4: Preparation of distribution Step 5: Distribution in the field Step 6: Short distribution report |
| Day 4 | How to carry out a relief programme with cash and vouchers • What, when, and why transfer of cash/vouchers • Advantages and disadvantages of cash transfer and vouchers • Assessing the appropriateness of using cash and vouchers • Implementing programmes with cash and vouchers |
| Day 5 | Monitoring a relief programme • Organising and implementing post-distribution monitoring (PDM) • Discussion with representatives of relief agencies • Visit of International Red Cross/Red Crescent Museum |
Individual consultation
As a participant, you can obtain an individual consultation from the trainer during the course on how to further develop a project of your own, or on another subject of your choice.
