Target audience

The training will target humanitarian professionals and practitioners of Canadian Development and Humanitarian organizations and/or students in Development and/or Humanitarian affairs.

Course aim and objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

TEACH AND TRAIN THEIR PEERS

• • Understand and learn about basic adult learning principles
  • Learn how to design a learning event, defining key contents and setting objectives
  • Learn training methods and techniques
  • Teach their peers on the four Sphere thematics: WASH, Shelter; Settlement and NFI; Food security & Nutrition; Health

HISTORY AND FOUNDING PRINCIPLES

• • Understand the history, founding principles and evolution of the Sphere Project
  • Review the concepts of a “Rights based approach” and how Sphere – and others – contributed to their development
  • Discuss why Sphere is important to Canada

INSTRUMENTS SUPPORTING SPHERE

• • Understand the Humanitarian Charter
  • Recall the Code of Conduct principles in their practise
  • Explain how the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS) try to summarize all previous humanitarian norms and standards
  • Understand how Sphere Protection Principles support the Sphere approach

SPHERE HANDBOOK STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES

• • Understand how the Sphere standards apply throughout the programme cycle
  • Explain how vulnerabilities and capacities require special attention
  • Assess how the operational setting affects the implementation of standards
  • Review Standards, Key actions, Key indicators and Guidance notes in: WASH, Food security and Nutrition, Shelter and Settlement, & Health
  • Feel at ease to develop humanitarian programming that rely on Sphere principles and standards

Pre-requisites for participants

• Good understanding of current humanitarian issues as field or HQ practitioners
• Acquisition of the Sphere Handbook 2018 edition
• Pre reading of the Humanitarian Charter, Code of Conduct and Core Humanitarian Standards

Training contents

• Review of the History, founding principles and raison d’être of Sphere
• Understand the importance of a Rights based approach
• Revise the key instruments which are the Humanitarian Charter, the Code of Conduct, the Protection principles
• Understand how Sphere supports a Humanitarian Project Cycle
• Review how the Sphere Handbook presents Key Standards, Action and Guidance Notes
• Learn how to train and teach adults, facilitate trainings sessions, design learning content
• Organize group presentations for their peers on specific Sphere thematic chapters