The Security Management for Humanitarians training will be delivered through a combination of live facilitated sessions, group forums and engaging activities using multiple purpose-built training platforms. The course will culminate in two intense and immersive Panel Exercise (Module 6), offering a great opportunity to reinforce participants’ learning and training experience.
Module Objectives
By the end of the training you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of key security management skills (including risk management, situational analysis, assessment, plan implementation, monitoring and evaluation, continuity and crisis planning and leadership).
- Practice these skills in relation to the Lebanon setting and achieving programme goals when managing humanitarian emergencies.
- Demonstrate that they can work effectively in reviewing and enhancing security management practice and procedures to support programmes and staff in the field.
- Reflect and evaluate on personal performance and the performance of others in relation to security in emergencies and improving practice.
- Communicate effectively to different audiences in the field of humanitarian practice using appropriate media.
What does the course cover?
- Module 1: We introduce the course and situate its structure in terms of different commonly understood frameworks for security/risk management. We will explore how our organisations have a Duty of Care to apply effective security risk management, and begin the first key step in managing security – establishing our context.
- Module 2: Having thought about risk at the context and organisational level, we need to drill down further – all the way to individual profiles, and how these might affect security. This gives us the information we need to commence the formal risk assessment process, introduced in the second half of the module.
- Module 3: Now we have identified our security risks and started to understand their relative importance (resources like time and money are always limited – so we need to know where to focus) we begin to look at how we respond to (positively) shape our operating environment to reduce the Likelihood and/or Impact of different risks.
- Module 4: Our security strategies and plans are now in place… but unfortunately the operating context in Lebanon is complex, and things can and do (!) go wrong. In this module we look at incident and crisis management, including some desktop practice in responding to different types of emergencies.
- Module 5: In this module we will unpack some of the more practical concerns involved in the operationalisation of security risk management. We can have the best plans in the world, but how do we communicate these to our team? And how do we maintain consistency once we have?
- Module 6: The Panel Exercise is your final challenge; wrapping up everything we have explored over the preceding six weeks, it will require you to present your learnings in a clear and concise way to an external security expert. With this last test completed we will have a little time to answer any final queries before wrapping up the course.
Additionally, we will be assisting participants to practice many critical soft skills for example, communication and coordination, research and analytical skills, teamwork and management skills, composure and decision making under duress.
Course Structure
This course is a blended learning programme comprising the following:
- Six modules, each an online facilitated session of 3.5 hours.
- Up to one hour of asynchronous solo learning (homework/ reading) before each taught module.
- Up to four hours of an offline group project that would be presented at end of course.
Total participant time commitment required: 31 hours.
Timeline:
The 6 facilitated sessions will be held mainly on Thursdays (20th February and 6th, 13th 20th, 27th March) at 10:00 – 13:30 GMT, with the exclusion of Friday 28th February at 11:30 – 15:00 GMT. The course will end on 27th March with the opportunity of coaching/mentoring sessions to follow, up until 31st May 2025.ill end on 6 December.
Participants will need to be present entirely for all online facilitated sessions and would also be expected to complete approximately one hour homework/ reading before each taught module.
Additionally, there will be an offline group project (approximately four hours commitment) that would be presented at end of course.
Who should attend?
We recommend this course for anybody with significant security responsibilities in their job description. This would certainly include Security Focal Points, Country Directors, Field Coordinators, Logistics Managers in the field, or persons based in headquarters overseeing country programmes. Even experienced security practitioners will benefit from revisiting the security risk management theory and from the more intense practical exercises such as the panel exercise.
Note: this course is funded only for participants from Lebanon.
HPass badge
Upon completion of the training, participants will be eligible to apply for a HPass Badge, a digital indicator of achievement, and a way for participants to demonstrate their skills and experience in the humanitarian sector. You can find more information on HPass Badges here.
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How to join
If you would like to attend, please register through Eventbrite. You will receive instructions on how to join the course after registration.
