Humanitarian Skills for Engineers

Issued on 19 May 2021 by

RedR UK

Congratulations on earning the ‘Humanitarian Skills for Engineers’ badge! This course has equipped participants with the knowledge and skills to apply their engineering expertise to a humanitarian context. The training provided an overview of disasters and emergencies in Uganda and the standards that underpin the response of humanitarian actors, incorporating humanitarian project management skills that are relevant in the rapidly changing environment of emergency response and introducing key soft skills that are relevant to humanitarian response.

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Issuer

RedR UK

training@redr.org.uk

RedR UK is a leading provider of training and learning to the humanitarian sector. Founded in 1980, RedR has since provided technical and non-technical capacity building services to tens of thousands of participants and hundreds of organisations all over the world.

Criteria

This participation-based badge is awarded to participants who have completed the six-week course on Humanitarian Skills for Engineers, which includes regularly attending webinars and completing assignments. Upon completion of the training, participants are able to:

Explain how the principles of humanitarian assistance, the Sphere standards, Core Humanitarian Systems and other sector guidelines inform how they must work within the humanitarian context;
Write a simple plan for an engineering solution for a humanitarian response, taking into account their skills and knowledge and the technical needs of a humanitarian response. This badge is issued to participants who engaged satisfactorily with live and asynchronous elements of this course, which require an average dedication of 6 hours/week. There is no formal assessment. The estimated learning time is 36 hours.

Issuer endorsements

HPass

info@hpass.org

RedR UK received HPass Certified status in December 2019 and has been verified through an external review as meeting the Humanitarian Learning Standards. This Certification demonstrates that RedR UK meets global best practice in implementing learning within the humanitarian sector. More information about the Standards is available on the HPass website.