Becoming a Responsible Volunteer

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FEATURED TRAINING

This online training is specifically designed for people supporting refugees in grassroots projects. It is especially ideal for first-time volunteers and for those volunteering with refugees for the first time.

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Short-term courses

Introduction to the Core Humanitarian Standard

This course will help you to understand and apply the Core Humanitarian Standard which will improve the quality, accountability and effectiveness of your humanitarian responses.

Volunteer Essentials Pathway

An interactive, scenario-focused pathway that introduces the core skills and knowledge needed to volunteer in the humanitarian sector.

Safeguarding means keeping children and adults safe from harm, abuse and/or neglect, and learning how to recognise, react to and report abuse.

Safeguarding Essentials

This course is an interactive, scenario-focused learning experience that will build your understanding of what safeguarding is and its importance in the humanitarian and development sector.

Safeguarding Matters

Do No Harm: Practical Framework on Conflict

Learn key facts about safeguarding through scenario-based examples based on a fictitious civil society organisation called Family Health Frontiers (FHF). Throughout the five courses in this series, you will join the FHF team as they seek to become a safer organisation and navigate safeguarding challenges.

Learn how to apply the Do No Harm framework to avoid unintentionally making destructive conflict worse which in turn leads to more effectiveness, accountability, and efficiency in programming choices.

Building Resilience in Tough Times

This session will offer a deeper understanding into practical ways to avoid burnout, find work/life balance and build long term resilience when the tough times arise.

Positive Psychology 101

Learn about ways to stay physically, mentally and emotionally healthy through difficult circumstances.

Self care and effective thinking

Increase awareness, self-empowerment and personal capacity building by focusing on yourself-care, effective thinking, attitudes and behaviours which may affect adjustment and resiliency processes in the field.

Educating Our Allies

This webinar highlights an important discussion about the voices of people in the refugee and migrant community and the fact that they are not given enough of a platform within the grassroots sector. Learn about the unequal power and saviour dynamics that appear in organisations’ decision making and the need to stop perpetuating victimising narratives of the communities that NGOs tryr to support.

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Long-term courses

Humanitarian response to conflict and disaster

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies and the challenges faced in the field today. (5 weeks)

Working in teams: A practical guide

Learn how to build effective teams, be a great team player and manage team conflict. (4 weeks)

Volunteering with Refugees

This award-winning course is a great starter programme for anyone at the beginning of their journey working with displaced people. (3 weeks, free version is available)

How to Make a Difference

This online training is specifically designed for people supporting refugees in grassroots projects. It is especially ideal for first-time volunteers and for those volunteering with refugees for the first time. (2 weeks)

Introduction to Humanitarian Aid

You will explore the long history of humanitarianism, learning about the important principles and values that underpin it. You’ll also discover how humanitarianism works across the globe, understanding how responses to disasters are coordinated and learning more about the various bodies involved. (2 weeks)

Working Supportively With Refugees

Combining principles of psychological well-being, intercultural communication, interpretation and conflict management, this course will help you to understand who refugees are and how you can support their integration in the receiving countries. (3 weeks)

International migrations: a global issue

The world is moving, but not all opinions and governments are willing to accept this poorly understood reality. The issue affects both states and the planet, in a process of globalisation and of regionalisation of migrations, and raises new questions for international relations, now including the South. This course aims at improving knowledge of the subject, addressing the key issues raised by international migration, and assessing the trends of tomorrow. (23 hours)

Safeguarding means keeping children and adults safe from harm, abuse and/or neglect, and learning how to recognise, react to and report abuse.

Protecting Children in Humanitarian Settings

Strengthen your approach to protecting and promoting the wellbeing of children in humanitarian settings using the latest evidence on childhood adversity and drawing on experiences from child protection practitioners. (12 weeks)

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Aid Re-imagined

"Re-imagining the way we do aid towards effectiveness and justice.”

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Learning Service

“We are promoting a movement of learning, designed to better prepare young people about to travel abroad for the first time, and travellers of all ages looking to give back through their time, with the skills and mindsets they need to be of ‘service,’ not just for a few weeks on a volunteer trip, but for the rest of their lives.”

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Psychological first aid: Guide for field workers

This guide covers psychological first aid for those offering humane, supportive and practical help to fellow human beings suffering serious crisis events.

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Volunteer Tourists Are Still Showing Up at Greek Refugee Camps. Are They Really Helping?

Learn about the concept of ‘voluntourism,’ and its impacts upon those in need of aid so that you can better prepare for training and be self-reflexive about your actions in the field.

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What Can We Do about the White Savior Complex?

Learn about the racist and colonialist history of aid from experienced humanitarians so that you can approach development with anti-racism and bolster the voices of non-white aid workers and aid recipients around you.

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