IFRC

The objective is to empower participants of the online course to initiate and develop an initial/ rapid multi-sectorial assessment. The training will help learners to carry out an ‘Emergency Needs Assessment’ (ENA).

An ENA provides an understanding of a disaster situation in the first two weeks of an emergency. Participants will work their way through the whole assessment process: from clearly defining the purpose of the assessment, proceeding with the application of appropriate methodologies, to the analysis and dissemination of your findings. This training provides a step-by-step tool with clear recommendations throughout.

As a result of this training, you will: recognize the purpose of assessment in emergencies; identify the main principles of assessment; identify who is on the assessment team; be able to apply the steps of the assessment process within your area; distinguish between primary and secondary data; recognize how to review secondary data; understand how to collect primary data; be able to summarize, compare and interpret data; recognize how to develop a scenario; understand how to report and disseminate your findings.

Every year, small and medium-sized disasters often occur in silence, without the attention of the mainstream media. Without visibility or attention beyond the local region in which they occur, these silent disasters often do not receive the influx of financial support that can follow large-scale emergencies or disasters. To support these smaller emergencies or disasters, or to provide initial funding before emergency appeals are launched for large-scale disasters, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) allocates grants from its Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to National Societies to support their operations. 

The Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) online course ensures rapid and effective response to emergencies and crises. This online course will provide you with key information on the requesting and being accountable for DREF funds, allowing National Societies to effectively respond to emergencies.

It comprises four modules:

• Module 1. Introduction to the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund 
• Module 2. Applying for the Disaster Response Emergency Fund 
• Module 3. Responsibilities to the Fund Disaster Response Reserve 
• Module 4. Disaster Relief Emergency Fund Course Summary.

The objectives of this course are:

To develop the capacity of the staff responsible for developing contingency plans at the local, national, regional or global levels, in anticipating disasters.

To empower participants to manage disasters and crisis through using agreed standards and tools for multi-hazard emergency preparedness.

This is an introduction to Community Engagement and Accountability in disaster and crisis.

Community engagement and accountability (CEA) is an approach to Red Cross Red Crescent programming and operations. It is supported by a set of activities that help put communities at the center of what we do, by integrating communication and participation throughout the program cycle or operation.

In this 20-minute online course, you are invited to watch the Surge Series episode on Community Engagement and Accountability in disaster and crisis, to do a self-check, and to explore other related resources.

How to handle public communication when deployed to an emergency operation? 

In this 20-minute online course, you are invited to watch the Surge Series episode on Communication in emergency operations, which will answer this and other questions, to do a self-check, and to explore other related resources.

The course provides an introduction to climate change related issues and aims to help staff and volunteers understand how they can contribute to addressing these issues in their day to day work within local communities.

Join this e-learning course about the global challenge of climate change – and discover what you can do to help reduce risks your community may face from climate change.

Over 30 minutes, you will learn what climate change is, how it affects the work of the Red Cross Red Crescent and what steps can be taken to address risks that might get worse due to climate change.

Upon completion, you will be empowered to act and help others address the challenge of climate change.

This one hour course focuses on increasing awareness of livelihoods related concepts and terminology. Also it allows the audience to understand how can be livelihoods supported and to identify the different types of assistance in livelihoods programming.

Learning Objectives:

• Improve awareness and understanding of livelihoods to a broader audience to enhance integration of livelihoods interventions in non livelihoods experienced National societies, if relevant.
• Provide volunteers and other national society staff that do not have the entry requirements to participate in the Introduction to livelihoods training course with the opportunity to acquire a basic understanding around livelihoods.
• It can also be the entry point for volunteers and staff not familiarized with livelihoods before getting involved in deeper training in other formats, when livelihoods is directly related to their functions.

When the impacts of a disaster overwhelm the capacity of local actors, there can be a role for international actors to supplement the local response. Yet, unless the local legal system is prepared for international assistance, legal barriers can prevent the right assistance reaching the right people on time. 

This online learning module provides an introduction to common legal problems faced during international disaster response operations and how they can be mitigated.

This course provides a definition of vulnerability and illustrates the three critical dimensions used to define it. It also presents the most commonly used methods to assess vulnerability, and provides examples and criteria for selecting the appropriate vulnerability indicators.

You will learn about

• The concept of vulnerability
• Using vulnerability assessments for decision making
• Tools available for conducting vulnerability assessments
• Selecting vulnerability indicators