United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Oct 2023
UNHCR jointly conducted with InterWorks a Situational Emergency Training from 2-4 October 2023 in Nouakchott, Mauritania.
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UNHCR jointly conducted with InterWorks a Situational Emergency Training from 2-4 October 2023 in Nouakchott, Mauritania.
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UNHCR organized a Situational Emergency Training from 11-13 July 2023 in Bamako, Mali for the countries of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. The purpose of this SET was to strengthen the capacity of UNHCR and its partners in these countries to prepare, coordinate and better respond to mass displacement of IDPs and refugees, with a special focus on the crisis situation in Menaka region of Mali. Read more
InterWorks designed and facilitated a three-day emergency response field simulation exercise in Dushanbe, and Balkhi, Tajikistan from 15-17 May 2023. The event was supported by the UNHCR eCentre and the UNHCR Tajikistan Office. Read more
InterWorks facilitated a virtual Security Risk Management (SRM) workshop over five days from 20-24 February 2023. Participants were from eight different countries and represented a range of organizations including NGOs, government agencies and UNHCR. This was the fourth eCentre virtual Security Risk Management workshop. It consisted of 11 interactive web-based sessions, including a final critical incident management online simulation with the REMS Read more
The Security Management Department of the JICA Planning Division in Tokyo requested InterWorks to lead an in-person Security Risk Management (SRM) workshop this year. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, an online version of the JICA SRM was developed and implemented in 2021 and 2022. This SRM workshop, which took place from 30 January-1 February 2023, was based on the original (2020) agenda with minor modifications made based on experiences during both the in-person and online JICA SRM workshops. Read more
InterWorks facilitated an Essentials of Humanitarian Negotiation (EHN) online workshop from 10 – 13 January 2023. Participants came from Afghanistan, Iran, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Read more
InterWorks led the IASC Emergency Team Leadership Programme (ETLP) online training, organized by UNHCR DESS on behalf of the IASC from 17-21 July 2023 via the Zoom conferencing platform. At the request of the IASC, UNHCR serves as the institutional home for the ETLP by facilitating the tendering, overseeing the design, and ensuring the delivery of the learning program. The ETLP is an interagency blended training programme which reinforces individual team leadership competencies and fosters effective, efficient and professional leadership in humanitarian emergency team settings. Read more
InterWorks designed and conducted the regional Situational Emergency Training (SET) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 6-8 December 2022. The workshop was conducted for UNHCR and its government and NGO counterparts, to strengthen the capacities of UNHCR and its partners to prepare for and respond to refugee emergencies in the east Africa region. Read more
InterWorks led the IASC Emergency Team Leadership Programme (ETLP) online training, organized by UNHCR on behalf of the IASC from 14-18 November 2022 via Zoom conferencing platform. At the request of the IASC, UNHCR serves as the institutional home for the ETLP by facilitating the tendering, overseeing the design, and ensuring the delivery of the learning program. The ETLP is an interagency blended training programme which reinforces individual team leadership competencies and fosters effective, efficient and professional leadership in humanitarian emergency team settings. Read more
InterWorks conducted a UNHCR eCentre “Basics of International Humanitarian Response” (BIHR) workshop in Fort Dhanarajata, Thailand from 6-14 November 2022. Twenty-five participants from UNHCR, government and NGO counterpart institutions participated, representing 11 different countries in the Asia Pacific region. Read more