Reaction and Planned Action

After participating in the UN-CMCoord course, graduates will:

• React positively to the overall training and buy-in to the UN-CMCoord philosophy in humanitarian response.

• Join a robust pool of knowledgeable graduates willing to keep abreast of latest developments and pursue professional growth on UN-CMCoord and, in the process, contribute to the learning of others.

• Express confidence in working with a variety of other responders in highly challenging and rapidly evolving operating environments.

• Score an 80 percent relevance rate of each individual session/topic of the training.

Learning and Confidence

After completing the UN-CMCoord course, graduates will:

• Define the concept of humanitarian civil-military coordination and outline its key principles.

• Describe in their own words the purpose and key messages of the four global civil-military coordination guidelines.

• Describe the role and responsibilities of OCHA in the context of UN-CMCoord preparedness and response.

• Assess the UN-CMCoord environment in their operational context: mapping the actors, identifying the main coordination/liaison structures, and determining the scope of humanitarian civil-military relations in natural disasters and complex emergencies.

• Describe key civil-military coordination issues and explain possible approaches to address them (e.g. military support to humanitarian response, protection of civilians, use of foreign military assets (FMA) and/or military and civil defense assets (MCDA), security and use of armed escorts)

Application and Implementation

When graduates assume their function in a humanitarian emergency, they will:

• Exercise a key role in support of humanitarian civil-military coordination.

• Advise their respective organization on civil-military coordination structures and principles for liaison with other actors.

• Uphold humanitarian civil-military coordination principles and advocate for the people in need of humanitarian assistance.

• Gain trust and confidence from all actors of civil-military coordination through demonstration of professionalism, dedication and organizational integrity.

• Perform their coordination role confidently with a clear focus on the support of the mandated beneficiaries.

• Preparatory phase: 

  • Distance learning

  • Web-based preparatory sessions (i.e. webinar using WebEx)

• Participatory approaches using facilitated discussions

• Team work and desk exercises to allow practical application of information and concepts presented

• Presentations in plenary

• Written assignments (i.e. preparatory phase and evaluation)

• Residential 

• 5.5 days (Sunday to Friday)

• 1 to 2 courses per region per year

• No course fee

• Accommodation and meals covered by organizers

• Sending organizations/office responsible for travel costs and applicable allowances

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