Course "Linking Relief Rehabilitation & Development"
Humanitarian relief and development workers often find themselves working side-by-side in the field, as contexts become increasingly complex, and emergency overlaps with development. Therefore today, more than ever, it is important to promote mutual understanding between humanitarian and development approaches, linking together and comparing their methods and knowledge.
OBJECTIVES
Building awareness amongst humanitarian relief workers and development workers:
1. For humanitarian relief workers:
Thinking about development / sustainability, i.e. keeping the end of the crisis in mind even during the humanitarian response itself, or at least thinking about the sustainability of infrastructures put in place.
2. For development workers:
Thinking about the possibility of a crisis occurring even whilst in a development context, i.e. working on prevention and preparation.
3. For humanitarian and development workers:
Identifying the shared issues at stake
CONTENT
- Introduction
- Emergency and Development: defining terms and background • Definitions of the concepts ‘Emergency’, ‘Rehabilitation’,’Development’, differences and similarities. • Background on linking relief to development, theory and discourse. • Meetings between relief workers and development workers, history of Groupe URD.
- Types of crisis: a complex reality • Concepts of crisis, different types of crisis, complex situations • From ‘continuum’ to ‘contiguum’ • Crisis management cycle • Survival strategies
- Linking emergency and development: Why? How? • Case study (persons refouled from Katanga…) • Recommendations for humanitarian workers and development workers
- Conclusion: LRRD in the sector today and notions of quality
METHOD AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS
- Participatory facilitation techniques, in order to encourage the involvement learning experience of all the trainees.
- Theoretical presentations, individual and groupwork exercises, videos, case studies, group discussions and debates.
