Online Course on Governance in Humanitarian Contexts
The course aims to critically analyse the humanitarian architecture, the different humanitarian contexts, and decision-making for WASH through a multi-level governance approach.
For whom?
Students aiming to diversify their learning pathway with humanitarian WASH knowledge; Professionals from the humanitarian WASH aiming to improve their competencies for career development; Professionals from the water and sanitation sector (private, public or nongovernmental sectors) aiming to expand their expertise to the humanitarian sector.
Prerequisites
This course has no prerequisites
Learning objectives
- Analyse quality, monitoring and accountability systems that safeguard the delivery of inclusive WASH interventions in humanitarian contexts
- Discuss key leadership skills to influence decision-making processes at an inter-personal level
- Explain the components and functioning of multi-level governance systems and apply them to humanitarian contexts
- Analyse data from humanitarian information systems to support decision-making processes within WASH interventions
Course content
The Humanitarian Architecture
- What constitutes a humanitarian situation and different types.
- Identify the major actors in humanitarian sector (e.g. UN Agencies, INGOs, RCRC, relevant government agencies).
- International humanitarian principles and legal frameworks.
Governance Landscape in Humanitarian Situations
- Defining (multi-level) governance as an approach to navigate decision-making.
- Coordination mechanisms in humanitarian contexts.
- Humanitarian frameworks for decision-making.
- Intersection of governance in different humanitarian contexts. Inter-personal leadership for influence.
Analysis of Decision-making for Humanitarian WASH
- Challenges of information management for decision-making in and across sectors in humanitarian contexts.
- Enhancing communication and effective cooperation.
- Opportunities and challenges of decision-making processes within Humanitarian WASH.
- Limitations of decision-making processes in Humanitarian WASH.
Safeguarding Humanitarian WASH Outcomes
- Introducing the Humanitarian Imperative - Sphere project
- Adapting and improving monitoring, quality and accountability mechanisms in humanitarian WASH.
- Consensus building and negotiation for humanitarian WASH
- Ensuring participation, inclusion and transparency in humanitarian WASH
- Safeguarding a gender perspective in humanitarian WASH
Key lecturers
- Gabriela Cuadrado-Quesada - IHE-Delft
- James Brown - OXFAM
- Lise Lacan - Solidarites
- Franck Bouvet - UNICEF
- Jamal Shah - UNICEF
- Omar El Hattab - UNICEF
- Roos Tomlinson - UNICEF
- Christine Heckman- UNICEF
- Brooke Yamakoshi - UNICEF
- Sunny Guidotti - UNICEF
Humanitarian WASH
Graduate Professional Diploma Programme
Course Coordinator
Gabriela Cuadrado Quesada
Senior Lecturer in Water Rights and Justice
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