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HHRN Madrid 2011

Strengthening Local Humanitarian Capacity

Case Study 1

Two capacity building programmes piloted by the Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies (CBHA); what makes them ‘different’?

Outline

• What is CBHA?
• What is the capacity building element of

CBHA?

• Common threads
• Case studies
• How have programmes evolved?

Overview of the Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies

• The CBHA is a ground breaking initiative,

for strengthening the coordination and capacity of the NGO sector to deliver appropriate, high quality, quicker humanitarian assistance to populations affected by disaster.

DFID awarded the CBHA an initial two-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) of £8million. March 2010 – February 2012

The 5 Outputs of CBHA

CBHA Emergency Response Fund Technology & Innovation Learning & Evaluation Surge Capacity Capacity Building Programme

Capacity Building Programme

Goal: To develop capacity within the consortium of 15 leading UK agencies, and also the sector as a whole.

Objectives: 1. Develop shared standards, competency and leadership behaviour frameworks and training resources for humanitarian response to apply to new and existing staff at the national regional and international level (ActionAid)

• 2. Develop core humanitarian skills and leadership and management

competencies of existing staff at national and regional level (Oxfam GB with the ECB Project)

• 3. Increase the numbers of potential leaders brought into the

humanitarian sector and trained in humanitarian management skills (Save the Children)

CBHA Capacity Building Programme

• 1. Increasing skills

through staff development

• 2. Increasing

availability of resources

• 1b. National Learning Programmes
• 1c. International/ Regional training

Surge Grant of £110,000 over 2 years to each member agency Bangladesh Bolivia Indonesia Horn of Africa UK (London) Horn of Africa (Nairobi)

• 1a. Establish common competencies

& leadership framework

Putting the Core Humanitarian Competencies Framework into action…

Common threads in the three initiatives

• CBHA Humanitarian Competencies Framework
• Inter-agency approach
• Collaboration
• Contextualised materials

Case Study: Objective 2

The collaborative approach: Who is involved and where? The ECB Project, CBHA and beyond Who are the final materials for?

National Staff Development Programme (Objective 2)

Humanitarian Core Skills Development Programme

2-3 hours/week over 6 months Horn of Africa (Kenya, Somalia, Sudan), Bangladesh, Bolivia, Indonesia

Humanitarian Management & Leadership Skills Development Programme

2-3 hours/week over 9 months Horn of Africa (Kenya, Somalia, Sudan), Bangladesh, Bolivia, Indonesia

The Participant’s Journey

A typical participant? …reflections so far…

Case Study: Objective 3

– What is the HLDP? – What does the training element of the trainee scheme involve?

• Simulation-based and Experiential

Learning:

Emergency operations programme (EOP)

EFC (Emergency Foundations Course) Distance learning AFT (Advanced Field Training)

CBHA ¡Humanitarian ¡Leadership ¡Development ¡Programme

0 months 6 months 12 months 6 ¡months ¡HQ ¡& ¡training ¡Placement ¡ Includes ¡HQ ¡ToR ¡and ¡projects 6 ¡months ¡Field ¡Placement ¡ Includes ¡Field ¡ToR ¡and ¡projects ¡

TIMELINE

E ¡ F ¡ C ¡ Distance ¡Learning ¡(13 ¡wks) A ¡(2 ¡ F ¡wks) ¡ T

=

15 ¡trainees ¡for ¡CBHA ¡ programme ¡based ¡at ¡15 ¡CBH ¡ agencies

The Trainee development process

• 4 stage trainee development process
• Self-assessment against core

competencies

• Workplan/L&D plan
• Reflective report
• Mid/end placement review
• Who holds the materials/who are they for?

A profile of a trainee

• What does the scheme mean to them?
• Why is this scheme important at

national level?

How have the programmes evolved?

Objectives 2 & 3 – Lessons learnt so far Early indicators for success? What questions are we asking?

Linkages

• The Emergency Capacity Building (ECB) Project
• People in Aid
• ELRHA - enhancing learning & research for

humanitarian assistance Whole sector replication and scale up…..

Questions

www.thecbha.org ¡