Enhancing a culture of care, safeguarding, Diversity, and Inclusion in team management

Whether working (or willing to work) in natural or human made crisis, humanitarian professionals and aid team leaders need to possess a unique set of skills and competencies to strengthen their knowledge and capacities in implementing safeguarding principles and practices, establishing a conducive environment that promotes organizational culture of Diversity and Inclusion (DI). It is essential to be supportive to different groups of individuals, including people of different races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, genders, and sexual orientations. As humanitarian staff often work in situations at risk, and they naturally experience stress, which in turn affects their well-being, team leaders are responsible to promote a management structure of care at operational and organizational level.
This training is designed for humanitarian practitioners and team leaders who want to encourage behaviors and activities that improve staff well-being and increase equality, inclusion and diversity and reflect on power, privilege and intersectionality in their programmes and management.

Who is this course for?
This training is addressed at professionals leading programs and teams in humanitarian settings who:
• Are working in humanitarian organizations in management positions or at regional/headquarters level and have interest in understanding and building their competences and skills in practicing management of staff well-being and care, diversity and inclusion, and safeguarding principles
• or are already working in humanitarian contexts at field level as program managers/ team leaders and are interested in deepening their understanding on safeguarding and DEI concepts concrete application in humanitarian program management;
• or Professionals in the humanitarian and development sector looking to develop their competencies in people management and inclusion management, as well as reflect and capitalize on their experiences and build on their residence and self-care capacities.

Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Understand the complexities of managing staff and teams in humanitarian contexts, with a focus on risks they may be exposed to and how to manage, involve and motivate human resources in challenging settings
• Apply and being familiar with the most recent practices, approaches and technical resources to build an organizational culture of care and staff well-being
• Deal with the challenges of managing of diverse teams: enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion
• Ensuring effective systems and structures in place to reduce the safeguarding risks associated with the humanitarian work
• Put in place self-care techniques and mitigate the risk of “burn out” associated to their work

Methodology
The training grounds itself in the adult learning approach, based on experiential learning, knowledge and experience sharing, co-creation and reflective analysis, with participants playing an active role throughout. The course consists of four days of face-to-face training that will include cases studies, group exercises, role-plays, presentations, as well as networking opportunities in and outside the class, aiming at establishing a community of practice. The course offers exposure to the most recent resources and innovations in the subject area and seeks to inspire participants to step out of their comfort zones and experiment, all in a safe and stimulating environment.
At the end of the training participants that have successfully completed the course will be ensured a digital badge through the international platform HPASS (www.hpass.org).

Program and further details are available at:

https://www.humcap.org/management-training/people-management-and-care/