The UNHCR Regional Centre for Emergency Preparedness – eCentre held a webinar series from 11-20 January based on the long-running Basics of International Humanitarian Response (BIHR) workshop. The webinar was conducted with 29 participants enrolled from 11 different countries. InterWorks was asked to assist in the preparation and facilitation of the eight-day long webinar series, and to host the overall webinar platform. Read more
InterWorks conducted the eCentre’s Security Risk Management, co-sponsored by the UNHCR eCentre and JICA, in a virtual format from 30 November-4 December. This virtual SRM consisted of 11 interactive web-based sessions, including a final critical incident management online simulation. Participants were from 13 different countries and represented a range of organizations including NGOs, JICA, other government, UNHCR and WFP. Read more
InterWorks and the UNHCR Global Learning Centre (GLC) and Field Security Service (FSS) held a Security Management Learning Programme (SMLP) workshop in Bangkok, Thailand from 4-8 November 2019. Read more
InterWorks conducted a virtual mini Security Risk Management (SRM) workshop with the UNHCR Regional Centre for Emergency Preparedness (eCentre) in support of the Japan NGO Initiative for Safety and Security (JaNISS) from 26-28 October 2020. Read more
InterWorks facilitated a one-hour webinar, “Preparedness and Contingency Planning for COVID-19 and its Impacts on Other Emergency Response Preparedness”, on 11 August 2020 for the UNHCR Regional Centre for Emergency Preparedness – eCentre. Read more
InterWorks facilitated a one-hour webinar, “Sphere Applications During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, on 4 August 2020 for the UNHCR Regional Centre for Emergency Preparedness – eCentre. Read more
For the DAI |USAID funded Tayar Nepal Project, InterWorks developed a full simulation training package inclusive of the disaster scenario, critical injects, handouts and trainer instructions to support Nepali trainers in the local delivery of a 1-day simulation exercise aimed at enhancing critical stakeholder preparedness and response to a monsoon flood emergency, complicated by Covid-19 concerns. Read more
InterWorks developed a table-top exercise package to support up to a one-day monsoon flood emergency preparedness table-top scenario planning exercise (MFEPX) complicated by Covid-19 concerns. Read more
In early 2020, Interworks conducted a scoping assessment in Nepal to determine the priorities, objectives and strategy for a simulation capacity building component of the Tayar Nepal Project. Read more
InterWorks conducted a Security Risk Management (SRM) workshop specifically for JICA personnel in Tsukuba, Japan from 8-10 January 2020 at the JICA Training Institute. Participants attending were from the Security Management Department at JICA HQs and from JICA Overseas Offices Participants from the overseas offices came from the Americas and the Caribbean (Haiti, Guatemala and Mexico) and Asia (Afghanistan, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan and Timor-Leste). Read more
