Event Title
Pre-Conference Workshops- Nuts and Bolts: Introduction to Humanitarian Action
Location
BCC 200
Start Date
12-6-2012 12:00 PM
End Date
12-6-2012 3:00 PM
Description
This introductory session is aimed at first-year students and sophomores. It will focus on the basic aspects of humanitarian affairs: humanitarian principles, the main actors and stakeholders, the distinctions between responses in complex emergencies and natural disasters. One important focus of the session will be on SPHERE principles, the most widely known and internationally recognized sets of common principles and universal minimum standards for the delivery of quality humanitarian response in the four primary life-saving areas of humanitarian aid: water supply, sanitation and hygiene promotion; food security and nutrition; shelter, settlement and non-food items; and health action, as well as the topic of gender violence which will be a main focus of the South Sudan simulation during the conference. Following the introduction, students will divide into small groups for a case study and stakeholder analysis. This exercise will form the basis of a discussion and round-up which will conclude the session.
Pre-Conference Workshops- Nuts and Bolts: Introduction to Humanitarian Action
BCC 200
This introductory session is aimed at first-year students and sophomores. It will focus on the basic aspects of humanitarian affairs: humanitarian principles, the main actors and stakeholders, the distinctions between responses in complex emergencies and natural disasters. One important focus of the session will be on SPHERE principles, the most widely known and internationally recognized sets of common principles and universal minimum standards for the delivery of quality humanitarian response in the four primary life-saving areas of humanitarian aid: water supply, sanitation and hygiene promotion; food security and nutrition; shelter, settlement and non-food items; and health action, as well as the topic of gender violence which will be a main focus of the South Sudan simulation during the conference. Following the introduction, students will divide into small groups for a case study and stakeholder analysis. This exercise will form the basis of a discussion and round-up which will conclude the session.
Comments
Facilitator:
Stephen Hansch, Senior Associate, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University
Biographical Summary: Stephen Hansch has conducted field work implementing and developing disaster response programs in Ethiopia, Sudan, Kosovo, Rwanda, Azerbaijan and Somalia, working with NGOs like the International Rescue Committee, CARE, Relief International, and Partners for Development. He also has had steady involvement in teaching about disaster prevention and humanitarian relief. He has lectured and taught courses on humanitarian aid, with a primary focus on NGO capacity building, at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Columbia University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison (the Disaster Management Program) and American University. He also serves as a SPHERE trainer for NGOs and has taught in the NGO-oriented specialized trainings offered on emergency relief by the International Committee of the Red Cross, USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (through World Education and Columbia University) and others.