Humanitarian Leadership Programme
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Course description
HLP is a uniquely intensive and challenging leadership course for humanitarians and emergency responders. The uniqueness of the programme is not only its linkage between the academic knowledge and practitioners, but also creating opportunities to enhance your understanding of the humanitarian system, build your ability to deliver humanitarian operations in complex emergencies and support you to develop the quality of leadership you offer others in some of the most challenging environments. -
Main themes
- The Humanitarian World Systems and Actors, Emerging Trends & Issues
- International relations in humanitarian affairs/ disaster management - response to climate change - Asian/ASEAN Context
- Operation & Management Structure: Emergency Management System/Incidence Command System (EMS/ICS)
- Managing multi-sectoral humanitarian response - Simulation can be included
- Multi culture in humanitarian response
- Humanitarian Accountability & Core Humanitarian Standard
- Leadership in humanitarian action
- Response strategy
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Learning outcomes
- Learners will have an overview on humanitarian world, systems, actors, principles, standard and as well as expected leadership in a humanitarian action;
- Learners will be able to develop a response strategy and lead a multi-sectoral response operation
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Teaching and learning methodology
In-class lectures with participatory exercises such as group work, simulation. -
Assessment methods and criteria
- Group presentations
- Essays (1,500-2000 words)
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Required reading
Inter-agency Standing Committee (IASC), 2006, GUIDANCE NOTE ON USING THE CLUSTER APPROACH TO STRENGTHEN HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE
Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones, 2000, Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? Harvard Business Review
Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) Alliance 2014, CHS
Margie Buchanan-Smith with Kim Screvan, Leadership in Operation, ALNAP Study, Overseas Development Institute, LondonLord (Paddy) Ashdown, 2011, Humanitarian Emergency Response Review
Last updated: 6 November 2017