(Please contact Gloria Gamba at
<[log in to unmask]> for more info.)
Saving Lives and Livelihoods: New Challenges in
Managing Interventions in Complex Emergencies
A Course For Managers Of Refugee And Relief Operations
Set in the Cape Town vicinity, South Africa
August 13 – 25, 2001
The Feinstein International Famine Center at Tufts
University is pleased to present a two week intensive
course aimed at equipping humanitarian program
managers with the critical awareness and skills
necessary for implementing effective and appropriate
programs. Geared to senior level program managers,
this course will address emerging themes in the field
of complex emergencies, with the aim of helping them
to develop new perspectives and approaches to shared
problems.
Nutrition, public health and food security, including
community-based animal health interventions, will
provide the sectoral foci for the course. This will
be complemented by in-depth sessions on gender and
inter-generational differences, humanitarian law and
principles, refugee rights, and livelihoods. Course
facilitators will use examples of current practice to
illustrate and explore emerging issues. In two weeks
the course will cover:
Week 1
- Setting the context of current crises, their
characteristics and challenges to the humanitarian
imperative
- IHL/refugee and child rights/humanitarian
principles
- The evolution of codes and standards
(SPHERE, Red Cross/NGO Code of Conduct), and their
programming linkages
- Identifying program priorities through
assessment and analysis (including a review of
different conceptual approaches, frameworks and other
practical tools, for example, contrasting a public
health approach, food first approach, livelihoods
approach and the need for a principled approach based
on political analysis)
Week 2
- An overview of sectoral interventions in
nutrition, food security and public health
interventions. This will include objectives, program
design, targeting and distribution systems, monitoring
systems.
- Analysis and interpretation of essential
Public Health and nutritional information with a view
to judging the severity of the emergency.
- The essential technical issues in nutrition
and public health for program managers in complex
emergencies plus!
- Working with the UNHCR and UNICEF program
methodologies, United Nations inter-agency
consolidated appeal processes and coordinating
mechanisms (e.g., OCHA)
Spaces are limited. For further information,
including rates and application, please contact:
Summer Programs
Feinstein International Famine Center
Attention: Gloria Gamba
96 Packard Avenue
Medford, MA 02155 USA
[log in to unmask]
1-617-627-3423 (phone)
1-617-627-3428 (fax)
http://www.famine.tufts.edu
(Special provisions for children will be made.
Families are welcome.)
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