Disaster Response Training provides an overview of preparedness and response, builds key skills, and equips you for future humanitarian work.
Purpose
Preparation training for Disaster Response
What to Expect
The Disaster Response Training (DRT) prepares you to respond with competence, compassion, and practical skills in times of disasters.
The DRT is an intensive and challenging simulation-based training designed for people from a wide range of professional backgrounds, including construction, engineering, carpentry, counselling, education, finance, logistics, administration, healthcare, IT, project management, communications, media, and many more.
We will cover subjects such as:
Humanitarian Principles,
Working as a Team in Emergencies,
Humanitarian Logistics,
Emergency Needs Assessments,
Decision Making in Emergencies,
Security and Communications,
Personal Travel Medicine,
Working with the UN / NGOs / Host Governments / the Media in Disasters
Further details: www.om.org/idr
Info: This training can be combined with OM in Poland’s “Serving War Refugees in Poland” outreach in Warsaw the following week. Participants may join for one or more weeks. Places are limited.
