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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

  1. Discuss key leadership skills to influence decision-making processes at an inter-personal level
  2. Explain the components and functioning of multi-level governance systems and apply them to humanitarian contexts
  3. Analyse quality, monitoring and accountability systems that safeguard the delivery of inclusive WASH interventions in humanitarian contexts
  4. 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

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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

IHE Delft and UNICEF as lead of the Global WASH Cluster, in cooperation with the Humanitarian Sector, aim to extend the provision of humanitarian WASH education by creating a Graduate Professional Diploma Programme (GPDP) at IHE Delft.
Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh

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Course Coordinator

Gabriela Cuadrado Quesada

Senior Lecturer in Water Rights and Justice

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