UNICEF fundamentals of humanitarian action

This programme aims to help you learn about the key principles, frameworks and approaches guiding UNICEF’s humanitarian action, with a specific focus on how UNICEF prepares for and responds to humanitarian emergencies.

Learning objectives:

After completing this programme you will be able to:

• describe how UNICEF’s work in humanitarian action relates to its mandate and other key guiding documents
• summarise the main principles and legal frameworks guiding UNICEF’s humanitarian action in preparing and responding to an emergency
• relate the way UNICEF works in emergencies to the international humanitarian system
• explain how UNICEF makes the decision to respond to a humanitarian emergency and what it is required to do in the response
• describe how UNICEF prepares to provide timely and effective humanitarian response to an emergency, specifically in relation to its procedure and guidance on preparedness for emergency response