Pre-learning
Hereafter you will find some of the pre-learning material available for the participants of the Geneva HELP course:
Programme cycle management
Nutrition & livelihood
Humanitarian ethics
IHL: Health care in danger
Follow the link HCiD - The Legal framework
Take the Introduction session: the importance of the law (7min20)
Take the Chapter 1: The sources of the legal framework (11min40)
Interactive learning resource - Health Care in Danger (HCiD) - English version - Spanish version
IMPORTANT - Please note that this link is not to be shared widely. Please send it only to a group of your facilitators and to registered participants of your course.
Sexual & reproductive health including sexual violence
The Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) is a set of lifesaving priority activities to be implemented from the onset of a crisis.
The minimum is to be scaled up while planning to integrate comprehensive SRH into primary health care as soon as possible.
Morbidity and mortality related to SRH are significant issues, and women and girls in humanitarian emergencies suffer disproportionately from life-threatening conditions,
The MISP defines which SRH services are most important in preventing morbidity and mortality while protecting the right to life with dignity in humanitarian settings. It is a standard for humanitarian actors and is supported by the international legal obligations of states to respect and ensure basic human rights, including SRH (IAWG, Field manual 2018, chapter 3 MISP)
We request the participants to take the following units:
The Introduction
Unit 1: What is the MISP
Unit 3: Prevent sexual violence and respond to needs of survivor
Unit 7: Plan to Integrate comprehensive sexual and RHS into PHC
Unit 9: Ordering IARH kits
Communicable diseases
Non-communicable diseases
Mental health & psychosocial support
Humanitarian protection
(Read the introduction: Understanding protection, p. 9-10)
Document - ICRC - Professional standards for protection work
Download the document, by selecting the PDF format and the language of your choice
The participants are asked to read the following two chapters:
Chapter 1 - Overarching principles in protection work (p.21-32)
Chapter 2 - Promoting complementarity (p.91-101)
More key documents
If you want to read more about ethics in humanitarian contexts, here is the recommended literature:
Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster / Hugo Slim
Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian Action: Reflections on Médecins Sans Frontières' Perception Project
HHEAT Handbook 2014
HumEthNet-HHEAT Tool / Case Cards