WASH Specialist in Emergencies and Humanitarian Settings

Badge awarded to

Hamid Gul Kozan

Issued on 07 Nov 2025 by

Kalu Institute

Holders of this badge will be able to perform the following ROLES within WASH Specialist in Emergencies: - Programme coordinator; - Programme officer; - Technical advisor. They have these specific COMPETENCIES to: - Assess and analyze key WASH-related questions and formulate appropriate technical options to answer them. - Demonstrates understanding of WASH coordination mechanisms. - Promotes and ensures compliance with the humanitarian principles and standards in WASH. - It establishes meaningful processes through which people affected by crises can participate in the response and share concerns. - Demonstrates strong technical knowledge of promoting hygiene, sanitation and water supply in emergency and humanitarian contexts. - Demonstrates an understanding of the continuum and contiguous of the WASH emergency response and longer-term development needs.

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Issuer

Kalu Institute

kalu@kaluinstitute.org

Kalu Institute is a registered NGO in Andalusia (R-0278) and a National Association (595169) constituted in Spain under Law 1/2002.

Our aim is to strengthen humanitarian response through training aid workers, developing and disseminating highly applicable research findings, and supporting innovative technologies within the sector.

Criteria

The badge earner has successfully completed the Wash Specialist in Emergencies and Humanitarian Settings course which includes the following contents:

Introduction and basic concepts in WASH in Emergencies
- The right to water and sanitation and the situation of WASH access worldwide
- The basics of epidemiology for humanitarian WASH workers
- WASH related diseases in humanitarian settings
- Multisectoral and integrated approaches
WASH project management
- Communicate and engage with communities and do no harm principle
- WASH Coordination, the Cluster approach and tools
- WASH situation and needs assessment
- WASH response design & planning
Hygiene and behaviour change in emergencies
- What is hygiene promotion in emergencies?
- Hand washing, storing water, food handling and excreta and solid waste management
- Hygiene promotion in emergencies
- Monitoring hygiene interventions
Sanitation in emergencies
- Key concepts of Environmental Sanitation in emergencies
- Techniques for excreta management in emergencies
- Techniques for wastewater treatment in emergencies
- Techniques for solid waste and animal excreta management in emergencies
- Monitoring sanitation interventions
Water in emergencies
- Water supply in emergencies - key concepts (incl. Water quality and quantity)
- Water sources options in emergencies
- Lifting and pumping
- Basics of water treatment in emergency
- Water storage and distribution in emergencies
- Monitoring water supply interventions

This is a 900 hours continuing education course, and was given with an e-learning methodology with tutors.

KALU Institute received HPass Certified status on Dec 18th, 2019 and has been verified by an external review as meeting the Humanitarian Learning Standards.

Issuer endorsements

HPass

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Kalu Institute received HPass Certified status in January 2020 and has been verified through an external review as meeting the Humanitarian Learning Standards. This Certification demonstrates that Kalu Institute meets global best practice in implementing learning within the humanitarian sector. More information about the Standards is available on the HPass website.