Training courses

The new free online training course, Checklist on Scaling up Disaster Risk Reduction in Humanitarian Action is based on the checklist developed in 2021 by UNDRR and OCHA in collaboration with humanitarian, development and DRR partners.

This checklist has been applied in numerous humanitarian contexts worldwide.

The self-paced online training course presents analysis and insights to address the following questions:

• What are the fundamentals of DRR in humanitarian and crisis settings?
• How to operationalize DRR frameworks and address inter-connected and systemic risks?
• How to advance DRR across Humanitarian-Development- Peace (HDP) collaboration contexts? How do we build principled, equitable, gender-responsive, human rights-based, and conflict-sensitive approaches to DRR?
• How can we integrate DRR into the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC)? What are the enablers of DRR and HPC integration?

Collaboratively developed by UNITAR and UNDRR, the course was launched in September 2023, and is available for free in English on the UNITAR Learning Platform. Throughout the course, participants will explore various case studies to gain a more profound insight into the subject. The course is structured to require approximately 10 hours of dedicated study to achieve a thorough grasp of the material.