Organization: Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs
Registration deadline: 03 Jul 2017
Starting date: 06 Jul 2017
Ending date: 10 Jul 2017
**This five-day course will provide students with a deeper insight to the use of data and technology in their work in human rights protection, monitoring and evaluation, and operations management in humanitarian contexts. Students will learn how to effectively collect, interpret and share/communicate data in line with ethical humanitarian principles, as well as develop new tools for humanitarian action.
The course will introduce participants to a comprehensive understanding of how to select and adopt tools, strategies, and techniques for data and innovation management, especially as seen through the concrete application to challenges evident in contemporary humanitarian action.
Saturday and Sunday will consist of a scenario-based workshop, 72 Hours' Challenge: (Big) Data for Preparedness and Assessment. Participants will be challenged to participate in a hands-on simulation, using data for emergency response - from the field visit and rapid assessment stage through the quality assessment monitoring stage at later phases of emergency intervention.
The challenge will give students the experience to conduct a hands-on simulation in using data in field visits and rapid assessments at the onset of emergency and in ensuring emergency food security or quality assessment monitoring at later stages of an intervention.
Furthermore, the course will bring together experienced humanitarian professionals, allowing them the opportunity to devise innovative solutions to the real-world problems they experience all over the world. Collaboration among the students will ensure knowledge is effectively distributed across diverse sectors and organizations as well as consistency in implementation.
This course is open to professionals from the humanitarian, development, technology, social responsibility, and corporate sectors, as well as to Fordham graduate students and recent Fordham undergraduate alumni.
How to register:
Apply here and select 'IIHA short course or professional training'