Humanitarian Action All-Round: Foundations, Challenges, Trends (2026)
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Overview
The “Humanitarian Action All Round: Foundations, Challenges, Trends” training course offers you a comprehensive and hands-on introduction to contemporary humanitarian action. Spanning over 6 training days of around 4.5 hours each and 15 online thematic sessions, the course curriculum covers the ideological, legal, practical, and institutional foundations of Western humanitarianism; key policy frameworks and their implementation aspects; as well as cross-cutting issue areas of humanitarian action like gender or climate.
The course aims to complement theory with practical examples provided by guest speakers who have relevant work experience (shared, for instance, in the “deep dive” format). Furthermore, the course offers you a critical perspective and includes various interactive and participatory methods, including group discussions and case studies, which consider the current developments within the sector. In addition to dedicated sessions, the course aims to consider power dynamics regarding all its content and this way seeks to avoid reproducing inequalities and the problematic knowledge gaps within the sector.
You will learn
- about the history, legal frameworks, and principles of contemporary humanitarian action
- how humanitarian action is financed and coordinated, who the key actors are, and what challenges they are currently facing
- about the humanitarian reform process and what it entails, including funding aspects, localization, and the “Humanitarian Reset”
- about cross-cutting issue areas of humanitarian action, such as decolonization, gender, digitalization, and climate, as well as the backlash some of them are currently facing
Lecturers
Center for Humanitarian Action
The Centre for Humanitarian Action (CHA) is an independent Berlin-based think tank, founded in 2019. It aims to strengthen local, international, and German humanitarian action by undertaking independent, practice-oriented research, initiating debate, and imparting knowledge to humanitarian stakeholders and the broader public. CHA builds bridges between the academic analysis and practitioners’ experiences and needs, and thereby contributes to making contemporary humanitarian action more effective, efficient, inclusive, and fit for purpose.
CHA has extensive expertise in the areas of humanitarian system and its reform agendas, donor accountability, locally led humanitarian action and localization, strategic capacities of civil society organizations, humanitarian principles, Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus, climate humanitarianism, gender in humanitarian action, as well as digital technologies and accountability to affected populations.
CHA also has a broad network of humanitarian researchers and practitioners with substantial expertise in different issue areas, including place-based experts from contexts affected by humanitarian crises who will be invited to this course as guest speakers (more information on guest speakers will be shared with the participants once the speakers’ participation is confirmed).
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