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HUMANITARIAN BAZAAR WORKSHOP

Responding to Crisis

Crash Course on Humanitarian Aid, Human Rights, and Peacebuilding, including “Triage and Consequences”: A Crisis Response Training Simulation

Cafe Bolero, Kovaci 26, Bascarsija, Sarajevo, Bosnia  |  11am – 5pm, Sunday August 3rd, 2014  |  Cost: $20/30km cash or online, or trade volunteer time  |  PLEASE RSVP at Humanitarianbazaar@gmail.com 

THE POINT:  Humanitarian Bazaar, a US-based creative humanitarian media organization produces projects around the world focused on how people survive war and disaster. We bring expertise from our successful work in Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Afghanistan, and more.We will train participants on the dynamics of how humanitarian aid, human rights, and peacebuilding agencies respond to crisis; how organizations must choose between urgent population needs versus urgent goals of the donors; and how people build careers in these fields. While this is designed for Humanitarian Bazaar team members, we would also like to invite members of the public to join us at this workshop. If you are new, you can help us recover costs for the workshop either by donating $20/30km or more by cash when you arrive, by card to our new online fundraiser, OR you can repay by volunteering a few hours to help us move forward.[/two-columns][two-columns]

Photo: Hargeisa, Somalia/-land. Daniel J Gerstle.

[/two-columns][/columns]DETAIL: Founder Daniel J Gerstle, who has run this training at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and Mailman School of Public Health, will provide an overview of global crisis response coordination and careers and run “Triage and Consequences,” a simulation game which helps break the ice and get everyone thinking about the tough decisions organizations make in the field. See the detailed course guide here:

SCHEDULE

1100  |  Welcome! We’ll get to know your goals up front and shape the workshop to make sure your most important questions are answered. Daniel will first introduce the work of Humanitarian Bazaar in Somalia, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria, and Bosnia with some short videos. He will then present an overview of how international and local agencies respond to war, disaster, reconstruction, human rights advocacy, justice, and peacebuilding based on his work with the UN, International Medical Corps, International Rescue Committee, Adeso Africa, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and others in crisis response in the Balkans, Caucasus, Middle East, and Africa.

1200  |  Organizations & Coordination. We’ll map out with help from Reliefweb.int how donors prioritize what they will fund and then follow that money through UN, international, and local agencies to see how well, or not so well, it makes it to the communities that need partnership and assistance. We’ll cover: Donors (UN, donor governments, private foundations, human rights advocates who persuade donors); Response Teams (International Non-Governmental Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations, local governments, military logisitics, security, justice, peacebuilders); and Local Communities (refugees, internally-displaced families, nomads, hosts, business community). Followed by question and answer break.

1300  |  Response Sectors. We’ll then map with the help of Sphereproject.org the sectors of response: Water/Sanitation, FoodSecurity/Nutrition, Shelter/Non-FoodItems, HealthServices, Security/RuleofLaw, ProtectionofVulnerable/Gender, Education, MentalHealth, FamilyReunification, HumanRightsAdvocacy, Energy, TechnologyTransfer, and more. Followed by question and answer break.

1400  |  Simulation Game. We’ll play “Triage and Consequences,” a simulation game which helps break the ice and get everyone thinking about the tough decisions organizations make in the field. Ideally 3 teams of 12 but we will adapt to the numbers we have. Teams will role play as organizations or survivor communities in a crisis in which they have to re-prioritize life saving interventions as funding and security falls. For prep, people can check out online resources like Reliefweb.org, Reuters-Alertnet’s Briefing on South Sudan, the UN’s humanitarian news aggregator on Sudan, the Sudan Tribune, and The Sphere Project.

1530  |  Coffee Break. Get to know each other better.

1600  |  Career Building Specifics.  Finally, we’ll talk about how most people build careers in these fields. Which university degrees are most needed? Which graduate degrees are most useful? Where does the funding come from? How to decide how much risk to take versus career security? We’ll answer your questions.

1700 |  Question & Answer. Whoever would like to stay longer to discuss questions about the training, something personal, or to arrange a follow up discussion, please do. Thanks to all for joining Humanitarian Bazaar.

Participants Signed Up So Far  |  Daniel, Mirela, Eva, Alison, Ana, Claudia, Hana (via skype audio for some part), others to be confirmed.

Daniel J Gerstle, Founder / Trainer  |  Humanitarian Bazaar  |  c/o Cafe Bolero, Kovaci 26, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina, +387-60-334-7572, skype: daniel.j.gerstle, Humanitarianbazaar@gmail.com

Thank you! Hvala!

Photo: Haiti. UN / Logan Abbasi.