Preparedness and Response Effectiveness Programme (PREP)
"Those responding together should have the opportunity to learn together."
OCHA Emergency Response Support Branch (ERSB) has taken a long desired step towards training and preparing together with its partners and networks.
Besides surging with its own staff, OCHA relies on several mechanisms to fill a critical staffing gap in sudden onset, newly escalating and protracted humanitarian crises.
At the core of the Preparedness and Response Effectiveness Programme (PREP) training course will be OCHA Surge, UNDAC, INSARAG and UN-CMCoord. The course will focus on the interoperability of these mechanisms along the humanitarian programme cycle, focussing on coordination and information management as key enablers.
PREP Relationship Map
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Objectives
Reaction and Planned Action
After participating in PREP, graduates will:
React positively to the overall training and share the philosophy of OCHA networks and partners, training together as one.
Join a robust pool of dedicated staff, willing to keep abreast of latest humanitarian rapid response mechanisms, ready to self-develop in their respective subject matter expertise and prepared to join skills-specific OCHA-led staff development events.
Learning and Confidence
After participating in PREP, graduates will:
Describe the purpose and function of OCHA-managed emergency preparedness and response networks.
Identify key areas of inter-operability and explain how to maximize their impact in operational contexts.
Explain the operating modality of wider humanitarian field coordination, including cluster coordination.
Utilize confidently information management tools to boost enhanced information flow within and between disaster response networks based on IASC guidance.
Apply influential communication skills to foster collaborative preparedness and response planning and programming
Design and maintain coherent on-site coordination platforms for information sharing and interactions in emergencies.
Optimize the use of collaborative working tools for preparedness and response effectiveness.
Application and Implementation
After participating in PREP, graduates will:
Successfully exercise the Humanitarian Affairs function for OCHA’s rapid response mechanisms that possess technical expertise, whilst also being versatile all-rounders, able to operate in natural disasters, technological emergencies and conflict settings.
Take an active part in establishing and maintaining coordination platforms along the humanitarian programme cycle.
Gain trust and confidence from all coordination stakeholders through demonstration of professionalism, dedication and organizational integrity.
Participation
The PREP course brings together four groups of interdependent emergency responders: OCHA and UN agencies, surge staff, militaries and non-governmental humanitarian agencies.
24 participants will be selected on the basis of the following criteria:
Experience working in emergency relief and response, coordination, operational support in complex emergencies or natural disaster, either with humanitarian agencies, military or both.
Current member of a formal OCHA Surge Mechanism (i.e. ASP, SBPP, ERR).
For active military personnel, current or recent operational deployment (e.g. PKO, CIMIC, civil-military personnel)
Excellent oral and written English is essential
Methodology
Preparatory phase:
Distance learning
Webinar
Participatory approaches using facilitated discussions
Group and individual work, including analysis and role plays on real case studies to allow for practical application of information and concepts presented
Written assignments (i.e. preparatory phase and evaluation)
Presentations in plenary
Administration
Residential
5.5 days (Sunday to Friday)
No course fee
Accommodation and meals covered by organizers
Sending organizations/office responsible for travel costs and applicable allowances
Resources
Course coordinator/Lead Facilitator (OCHA)
Four Co-facilitators/Technical Subject-Matter Experts
Course administrator (OCHA)
Registration
The invitation letter is issued three months before the course.
Visit "Training and Partnership" page for information on course announcement