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Key online learning resources for the Venezuela Earthquake Response
Two powerful earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 have struck central Venezuela, causing widespread damage across several states. Buildings and infrastructure have been severely damaged, with power and communications cut in some areas and fears people are trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
This is a live and ongoing crisis. This page will be updated regularly with more information and learning resources.
Earthquake Essentials
Essential learning courses for local responders and humanitarian actors supporting the response.
Kaya Course
Psychological First Aid for Children
Save the Children, Humanitarian Leadership Academy
Psychological First Aid (PFA) for Children course will introduce you to the concepts and steps involved in providing support to children following a distressing event. It includes activities that focus on the core elements of PFA and how to apply them in a humanitarian context.
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Kaya Course
Foundations of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS)
Save the Children, Humanitarian Leadership Academy, The MHPSS Collaborative
The goal of this course is to equip participants with a comprehensive understanding of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) and its critical role in humanitarian and development contexts.
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Kaya Course
Introduction to Needs Assessments in Emergencies
Save the Children, Humanitarian Leadership Academy
This course aims to give you a foundational understanding of both the purpose and role of needs assessment in humanitarian responses, coupled with practical steps on how to implement a needs assessment.
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Kaya Course
Client Responsiveness and Accountability to Affected Populations
International Rescue Committee (IRC), United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
This course provides introduction to and step-by-step guidance on how to implement Client Responsiveness or Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP), so we remain accountable and responsive to our clients.
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Kaya Course
Humanitarian Accountability and Protection in Displacement Contexts
School of Advanced Study
Join this course if you are interested in humanitarian accountability in displacement contexts and participation of affected populations in decision-making.
Kaya Course
Helping Older People in Emergencies (HOPE)
HelpAge International
This course provides an introduction on the inclusion of Old People in the humanitarian emergency responses.
Kaya Course
Early Warning Early Action
World Vision
In this course, you will learn more about key community-level tools for Early Warning Early Action to support communities in establishing and facilitating Early Warning Committees, assist communities in Community Based EWEA planning and design, creating Early Warning Indicators, EW Actions, Communication Strategy, and Scenario building.
Migration and Displacement
Kaya Course
Toxic Stress and Well-Being Among Students Affected by Forced Migration
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Learn about common experiences associated with forced migration, how toxic stress affects children and youth, and key ways that effects of toxic stress can be mitigated within Healing Learning Spaces, including classrooms, schools, and out-of-school time program environments.
Kaya Course
Well-Being for Educators of Students Affected by Forced Migration: Introduction to Mindfulness
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Learn about the importance of well-being for educators and youth development professionals working with students affected by forced migration and other types of trauma, and explore and practice mindfulness techniques to support your well-being.
Kaya Course
De-escalation in Resettlement, Asylum and Integration Settings
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
This module focuses on the foundational skills of de-escalation. You will learn what de-escalation is, what its foundation is, and how to use it with your clients.
Kaya Course
Safety Planning in Resettlement, Asylum and Integration Settings
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
This module focuses on the foundational skills of working with clients to develop safety plans. You will learn what safety planning is, what foundational skills you need to create safety plans, and how to use safety plans in a variety of situations with your clients.
Kaya Course
Responding to Intimate Partner Violence in Resettlement, Asylum & Integration Settings
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
This module focuses on the foundational skills of working with clients who are survivors of intimate partner violence. You will learn what intimate partner violence is, what foundational skills you need to respond safely and in a survivor-centered way, and how to use those skills with your clients.
Kaya Course
Psychological First Aid in Resettlement, Asylum and Integration Settings
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Learn the foundational skills of Psychological First Aid (PFA), what its underlying principles are, and how to use it with your clients.
Kaya Course
Suicide Prevention in Resettlement, Asylum and Integration Settings
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
This module focuses on the foundational skills of suicide prevention. You will learn about suicide, what steps all direct service staff can take to prevent suicide, and how to use suicide prevention practices with your clients.
Kaya Course
Empathic Communication in Resettlement, Asylum and Integration Settings
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
This course focuses on the foundational skills of conveying empathy through communication skills.
Kaya Course
Introduction to Case Management for Refugee Service Providers
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
An introductory course designed to support refugee service providers in the provision of case management services for refugees, asylum seekers, and other vulnerable immigrants in a resettlement or integration programme.
Kaya Course
The Remote Cash Course
CALP Network (CALP), Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
An online self-study course on managing cash and voucher assistance remotely.
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Safety and Safeguarding
Kaya Course
Safeguarding Essentials
Humanitarian Leadership Academy
An interactive, scenario-focused course that will build your understanding of what safeguarding is and its importance in the humanitarian and development sector.
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Kaya Course
Safeguarding
FIELD Programme, Save the Children, Humanitarian Leadership Academy, World Vision
While most NGO workers act compassionately and professionally, and would never abuse or harm children or adults in the communities in which we work, there are some staff, partners and volunteers who might. This course is designed to improve your safeguarding knowledge, and help to prevent harm coming to those we seek to serve.
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Kaya Course
Safety and Security Before Deployment
FIELD Programme, Save the Children, Humanitarian Leadership Academy, World Vision
This course explores a typical security risk management planning process. It will cover the topics of actor mapping and context analysis, risk assessment, digital security and common security strategies - all within the context of before deployment or starting a new programme.
Kaya Course
Safety and Security Within The First 1-2 Weeks and Ongoing Improvement
FIELD Programme, Save the Children, Humanitarian Leadership Academy, World Vision
This course explores initial safety measures during the first 1-2 weeks of deployment such as security plans, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and contingency plans. It also looks at what's needed to monitor the situation and look for ongoing security improvements once operations are running securely.
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Shelter
Disaster Ready
Humanitarian shelter and settlements
This free course by InterAction and USAID/BHA provides an overview of humanitarian shelter and settlements (S&S) assistance and examines the interrelated concerns of protection, climate and environmental impacts, and disaster risk reduction. Learn how humanitarian actors can prepare to face emerging challenges and understand potential opportunities for moving the sector forward.
Supply Chain
Kaya Course
Embedding sustainability into end-to-end supply chains
Save the Children, Humanitarian Leadership Academy
This 3 hour course will explore the fundamental concepts of sustainability, how it fits into humanitarian supply chains and operations, and the motivation for humanitarian organizations to address this important topic.
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Kaya Course
A step-by-step journey into supply chain planning
Save the Children, Humanitarian Leadership Academy
This 3 hour course will enable you to explore and understand the fundamental concepts of supply chain planning and the different steps involved in this important process.
Kaya Course
Mastering Asset Management
Save the Children, Humanitarian Leadership Academy
This 1-hour course will provide you with an overview of all stages of the asset management process.
Kaya Course
Warehouse Management in Action
Save the Children, Humanitarian Leadership Academy
This 2 hour course will enable you to explore and understand the fundamental concepts of warehouse management including warehousing strategy, warehouse management, warehouse operations (inbound & outbound) and specialty warehousing for specialist commodities.
Kaya Course
The Essentials of Good Distribution Practice
Save the Children, Humanitarian Leadership Academy
This 30 minute course outlines the mandatory processes and procedures for the procurement, warehousing, distribution and quality assurance of medicines and medical devices, used to support health programmes.
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Kaya Course
Unlocking the supply chain: A guide for non-supply chain staff
Save the Children, Humanitarian Leadership Academy
This 90 minute course has been specifically created to explain Supply Chain processes, procedures and activities to non-Supply Chain people, in a simple and easy to understand way.
Kaya Course
Health Supply Chain Management
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
This five-part eLearning series is intended to strengthen health supply chain capacity in country programs, and ensure uninterrupted supply and proper management of quality products to meet the needs of health programs.
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Warehousing
FIELD Programme, Save the Children, Humanitarian Leadership Academy, World Vision
The use of warehouses for storing emergency relief items has been proven to improve overall responsiveness, efficiency and effectiveness of the humanitarian supply chain while decreasing the cost incurred in the process. This course aims to improve your knowledge in the area of humanitarian warehousing.
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Standards
Kaya Course
Introduction to the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (2024)
CHS Alliance, GroupeURD, Humanitarian Leadership Academy, Sphere
This course will help you understand and apply the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS), and in doing so ensure that organisations support people and communities affected by crisis and vulnerability in ways that respect their rights and dignity and promote their primary role in finding solutions to the crises they face.
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Kaya Course
How to use the Sphere Handbook
Sphere
This course introduces the Sphere Handbook and explains how people and organisations responding to humanitarian crises can use the Handbook to improve the quality of the assistance they provide.
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Sphere in Practice
Sphere
Learn how to apply the standards in the Sphere Handbook through realistic examples from complex and protracted crises.
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How to be a Sphere Champion
Sphere
This one-hour e-learning module introduces Sphere, the Sphere Approach, the Sphere Handbook, and the benefits that Sphere can bring to your network and, ultimately, to the people affected by crisis and disaster that you serve.
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Kaya Course
Age and Disability Inclusion in Humanitarian Action Course
HelpAge International
This self-guided course will build your understanding on the wellbeing of old people and people with disabilities before, within and after any humanitarian intervention.
Kaya Course
INEE Minimum Standards
INEE (Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies)
This learning module serves as an introduction to the Interagency Network for Education in Emergencies Minimum Standards for Education: Preparedness, Response, Recovery.
Kaya Course
Inter-Agency Minimum Standards for Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies Programming
International Rescue Committee (IRC), United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
The training has been designed for GBV practitioners to learn more about the Inter-Agency Minimum Standards for Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies Programming. This resource presents 16 Minimum Standards for the prevention of and response to gender-based violence in emergencies.
Kaya Course
Introduction to International Humanitarian Law (IHL)
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
An introductory course on the basics of International Humanitarian Law (IHL). It is principally addressed to humanitarian practitioners, policy-makers and other professionals who are keen on understanding how and when this body of law applies, and whom it protects.
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Operations
Kaya Course
Introduction to Conflict Sensitivity
Humanitarian Leadership Academy
The aim of this module is to provide learners with an introduction to conflict sensitivity to help them consider conflict sensitivity in their work and to understand how this links to other policies and approaches in the Aid Sector.
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Kaya Course
Introduction to Needs Assessments in Emergencies
Save the Children, Humanitarian Leadership Academy
This course aims to give you a foundational understanding of both the purpose and role of needs assessment in humanitarian responses, coupled with practical steps on how to implement a needs assessment.
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Kaya Course
How to Set Up and Run a Response Operation
Humanitarian Leadership Academy
This course is aimed at individuals who want to learn the key elements of a humanitarian response, exploring the different response phases and the operational components required to run an effective response.
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Kaya Course
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) in Emergencies
Humanitarian Leadership Academy
This course is targeted towards individuals who wish to gain an understanding of the key principles of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) in emergency contexts.
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Kaya Course
Introduction to History of Humanitarianism
Humanitarian Leadership Academy
This course aims to provide an overview of the changing humanitarian ideas and practices of major international aid organisations. It describes the development of humanitarian principles such as neutrality, impartiality and independence, but also others like internationalism. It explores how these principles have been shaped and reshaped.
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