People In Aid News

Analysis: Helping local aid workers build meaningful careers

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT

There has been much talk of decentralising the northern-centric humanitarian aid sector to give more power to southern staff, but how much has changed over recent years?

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Simulations and their use in the humanitarian sector

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT

Simulations and drills are used in all walks of life to test and prepare specific skills and competencies - whether it is for the emergency services, health professionals, military or airline pilots - and the humanitarian sector is no different. Simulations provide an excellent opportunity to build relationships, test individual competencies and provide a safe learning space for participants to try out new behaviours or approaches.

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First steps agreed to develop a new humanitarian standards architecture

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT

The Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP), People In Aid and the Sphere Project have now moved into the action phase to develop a new humanitarian standards architecture.

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Safaricom Director of Resources announced as the HHR Africa keynote

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT

The keynote speaker for the 2013 Humanitarian HR Africa conference, taking place in Nairobi, Kenya between 11 - 13 June 2013, has now been announced as Sharon Kisire, Director of Resources at Safaricom. Sharon will present her session titled 'Reflections on Leadership:

How can we be the change we want to see?'.

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Humanitarian standards consultation report now published

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT

The global stakeholder consultation report on humanitarian standards, commissioned by the Joint Standards Initiative (JSI), has been made public on the Joint Standards website.

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