UNICEF

This course has been designed to help you develop your understanding of the revised Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) and how to use them in an emergency response. With this course and accompanying toolkit, you will be able to recognize how to deliver principled, timely, quality and child-centred humanitarian response and advocacy in diverse types of crises.

Learning objectives:

By the end of the course, you will:

• Understand the new key functions of the CCCs, the Programmatic and Operational Core Commitments, and their benchmarks
• Understand the managerial and organizational Commitments related to the CCCs
• Master the tools available to plan and design emergency responses with UNICEF teams and partners

Feel:

• Confident to apply the CCCs in your day to day work
• Confident to support others to apply the CCCs
• Motivated to improve your skills further

Be able to:

• effectively use the CCCs as an advocacy tool in your dialogue with governments, local authorities and partners, as well as local medias and other external stakeholders
• hold a briefing session on the CCCs with your teams to build their knowledge and capacities and use the CCCs as a training and onboarding tool for UNICEF personnel
• conduct briefings with host- governments, national and local authorities, as well as operational partners on UNICEF Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action, and how to put these guiding principles and framework effectively into practice
• embed the CCCs in the Annual Workplans (AWP), Country Programme Documents (CPD), Emergency Response Plans, Humanitarian appeals (HAC) and Partnerships of your office
• embed the CCCs in the management tools of your office and in the performance reports of your teams
• coach UNICEF personnel on how to include and mainstream the CCCs in their workplans

This course covers UNICEF commitments and practical guidance on risk-informed, conflict-sensitive, and peacebuilding programming. It introduces tools staff can (and should) use to analyze risk and conflict in the field and to design, adjust, implement and monitor programmes that foster resilience, sustainability, peace and social cohesion.

The course draws on UNICEF Guidance for Risk-Informed Programming, UNICEF Guide to Conflict Analysis and Programme Guidance on Conflict Sensitivity and Peacebuilding.

At the end of the course the learner will be able analyze risks to children and vulnerable groups and will be equipped with the resources they need to elaborate a basic risk analysis and conflict analysis. The learner will also be able to better design, implement and monitor risk-informed programmes that foster resilience, sustainability, peace and social cohesion.

Learning objectives:

Upon successful completion of the course, you should be able to:

• explain what risk-informed programming is and how the new global landscape is making risk-informed, conflict-sensitive, and peacebuilding programming essential to all of UNICEF’s work;
• use new tools to conduct a basic child-sensitive risk analysis;
• understand fundamental concepts related to conflict and peace and be able to conduct a basic child-centered conflict analysis;
• access the tools you need to design, adapt and implement risk-informed programmes that foster resilience, peace, and social cohesion;
• ensure risk-informed programmes that foster resilience, peace, and social cohesion are part of integrated programming and programming in specific thematic areas;
• identify and guard against potential negative unintended consequences of the programme – ensuring that UNICEF programmes “Do No Harm”; and
• begin to monitor risks, conflict sensitivity, risk-informed, and peacebuilding programmes.

This course is part of the GWC training pathway, created for both WASH Cluster partners and UNICEF staff involved in coordination to ensure the efficient WASH coordination in humanitarian action. This training pathway includes the following courses, all available in AGORA's catalogue:

Introduction to WASH Cluster Coordination: 2h online training providing background information on WASH Cluster coordination. For all WASH partners and UNICEF staff wanting general information on WASH humanitarian coordination. This course was designed in 2015 by WASH cluster Somalia and need to be contextualized when used outside East Africa region.

Humanitarian WASH Coordination Induction: 2 days online training providing essential information and tools to coordinate WASH Cluster. For WASH partners or new UNICEF WASH staff fulfilling a WASH coordination role

Partners' briefing on Humanitarian WASH coordination: Three succesive face to face briefing modules providing essential information on partner’s roles to actively participate in humanitarian WASH Coordination. For all WASH partners involved in humanitarian response

WASH Operational coordination (WOC): 5 days residential training providing operational tools and skills for WASH coordination. For Humanitarian WASH cluster / sector coordinators

WASH Leadership & coordination (L&C). 5 days residential training to strengthen the skills for leading humanitarian WASH coordination platform. For Humanitarian WASH cluster / sector coordinators

WOC and L&C training of trainers: this ToT is specifically designed to train high level UNICEF staff and partners to deliver the WOC and L&C training in autonomy

Market-based programming for WASH in Emergency (MBPWIE): 5 days residential training to strengthen the skills of WASH practitioners on Market and Cash related tools used for WASH programming

Learning objectives:

This course will help you to:

• Be familiar with the reform of the humanitarian reform and the transformative agenda
• Understand the main principles of the cluster or sector approach
• Be clear on the roles of the different actors involved in the WASH coordination platform
• Be aware of the skills and competencies needed to support effective coordination and partnership
• Be familiar with the core functions of thre WASH coordination platform, including need assessment and response planing
• Know main information and management tools, and source of information for the WASH sector
• Be familiar with the cluster or sector performance monitoring process

In an increasingly saturated news market, media moments often do not last more than 48 hours. Communicating in support of fundraising, especially around emergencies, calls for information that matters and content that works, that can be easily packaged for use immediately by news-rooms, disseminated on social media and shared with partners.

This course is a basic introduction to digital and social media engagement around emergencies, specifically supporting communication around emergency fundraising, using the appropriate digital media and social media platforms.

Learning objectives:

• Identify how to use digital and social media in emergency communications to increase awareness and support for children's rights and immediate needs.
• Define how to source and customize relevant information in support of emergency communications.
• Identify ways to strengthen relationships with media practitioners, influencers and others.
• Define how to evaluate impact of your communications engagement around emergencies.

Building upon the last five years of rolling out the GBV Guidelines, the inter-agency GBV Guidelines Reference Group (RG)1 and Implementation Support Team (IST)2 are pleased to announce a new online course on integrating GBV risk mitigation interventions in humanitarian action. This informational announcement offers an overview of the online course.

Learning objectives:

Learners will be supported to:

• Build their skills on identifying GBV risks within their sector and/or agency programming;
• Identify entry points for GBV risk mitigation and learn strategies to effectively mitigate GBV risks within sector programmes to improve outcomes;
• Engage meaningfully with women, girls and other at-risk groups to reduce risk and improve safety;
• Understand and learn to apply principles of safe and ethical data collection, information sharing and analysis of GBV risks to improve programming;
• Develop and be able to deliver key messages on GBV risk mitigation to specific audiences;
• Build a solid understanding of securing resources and crafting budgets for GBV risk mitigation;
• Develop skills on safely and appropriately responding to disclosures of GBV incidents and making referrals.

The Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E) consists of two modules.

Module 1 provides information about IYCF-E programming as part of emergency preparedness and response. It is based on the Save the Children’s IYCF-E toolkit and training manual.

Module 2 covers the design, protection of breastfed and non-breastfed children, infant, and young child feeding in emergencies (IYCF-E) programming, and their integration in early childhood development.

Learning objectives:

By the end of Module 1, you should be able to:

• Discuss recommended IYCF practices
• Explain the importance of IYCF-E
• Explain policies, guidelines, and frameworks for IYCF-E
• By the end of Module 2, you should be able to:
• Outline essential information for the design IYCF-E programming
• Discuss how to create an enabling environment for IYCF-E
• Define violations of the Code
• Explain practical steps for the protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding
• List the types of support for non-breastfed children
• Describe how to integrate early childhood development into IYCF-E activities

This is a Humanitarian System training module, which covers the humanitarian actors who play a role in the system, as well as the standards to ensure that nutritional needs are met.

This course covers the fundamentals of Humanitarian Cash Transfers (HCT). It provides a first introduction to what are HCT, and how UNICEF uses them in humanitarian response as an implementation modality across sectors. It includes considerations on UNICEF comparative advantage and its strategic positioning on HCT, as well as showcase examples of programmes and two case studies. 

The course is structured around three modules that allow participants to progressively gain a more practical and field implementation-oriented understanding of HCTs. 

Learning objectives:

Provide UNICEF staff with the basic concepts and implementation considerations required to consider the use of HCT in a humanitarian response.

Harmonized Approach to Cash Transfers (HACT) establish common principles and process for managing cash transfers among UN agencies that have adopted the approach across all countries and operational contexts. This course describes the principles and processes of HACT and how they work in UNICEF.

Learning objectives:

HACT is a common operational framework for transferring cash to government and non-government implementing partners. This course will focus on the principles, processes and implementation of HACT. At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Define HACT, explain its objectives and identify the key revisions of the 2014 HACT framework
• Identify the key elements of HACT and explain their corresponding processes
• Describe UNICEF specific requirements and staff responsibilities for HACT implementation

Participants through six online self-paced modules will develop basic theoretical knowledge around the fundamentals of coordination and education cluster, humanitarian programme cycle and education cluster strategies, basic coordination practical skills on effective education cluster meeting and presentation. In addition, participants will strengthen basic information management competencies on folder, file, and education cluster contact list management, education cluster monitoring tool, and analysis and visualization.

Learning Objectives:

Participants by the end of the course will be able to:

• Explain and describe common challenges and benefits of coordination in emergency responses and cluster approach
• Describe key education cluster work aspects, including criteria for cluster activation, core functions, cluster structure and governance, core principles of coordination and mixed setting, and refugees’ responses
• Describe key components of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) and inter-cluster processes as Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP)
• Describe key aspects and core principles of Education Cluster Strategies and why are important to lead and coordinate cluster partners
• Effectively plan and facilitate education cluster meetings and present
• Manage shared folders and files, including education cluster contact list, applying basic excel skills
• Manage and populate education cluster monitoring tool, applying basic excel skills to analyze and visualize information

The online course responds to competency needs identified in the INEE Competency Framework that is built around the INEE Minimum Standards. In particular, the course is most closely linked to the Coordination Competency Domain.