IASC Weekly meeting: Humanitarian Competencies
Geneva
Meeting Documents
1. Core Humanitarian Competency Framework and the Humanitarian Staff Development Programme
Sarah Lumsdon, Strategic Project Manger and Management Development, Oxfam GB, and Caroline Hotham, CBHA Staff Development Project Manager, Oxfam GB, will brief on the piloting of a Core Humanitarian Competencies Framework and the development and roll out of two Staff Development Programmes aimed at building staff capacity to respond to humanitarian disaster. The presentation will give an opportunity to ask questions about the design and future direction of the project. The presenters would like to pose the question of how as a sector national capacity can be build in a cost effective manor in the long term, which will really have an impact? How can agencies and donors be encouraged to give sufficient weight and investment to effective staff development?
Background
Over the last year Oxfam and ECB (Emergency Capacity Building Project) have been leading a project on behalf of the CBHA (Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies) to development a two (Management and Leadership and Core Skills) Staff Development Programmes focusing on building humanitarian capacity at Country level. The programmes have been designed by People in Aid together with key staff from a number of Humanitarian agencies. The Programmes have been piloted in 4 countries and the initial interim evaluation has just been completed. The programmes have been designed to move away from typical one off workshop event to a longer term programme focusing self directed learning, building confidence and the development of the appropriate behavioural competence. The programme was designed based on a Core Humanitarian Competency Framework which was collated by Action Aid and People in Aid and agreed by the 15 Humanitarian Agencies with UK based offices. The framework has been cross checked and agreed across international offices of these agencies. The framework is an excellent piece of collaborative work and a major step forward in an agreed approach to staff development. The Framework will be finalised in the coming months and guideline for using the framework produced.
2. AOB