1. Participants are able to identify similarities, complements and differences between actors involved in humanitarian interventions

1.1. Participants are able to list main actors in humanitarian interventions

• Bringing out main actors -> grouping

  • Organizational entities for which humanitarian action is their primary mandate/mission;

  • Groups that play a critical role in humanitarian response, but humanitarian action is not their core function

1.2. Participants are able to examine the characteristics that allow them to better understand specificities of different actors

• Frameworks for stakeholder analysis (2)

2. Participants are able to identify roles and responsibilities in prevailing coordination systems that may be in place in an acute /protracted crisis

2.1. Participants are able to describe coordination mechanisms that may be in place to ensure a coherent and coordinated response during humanitarian crises

• First responsibility with local/national authorities

• Regional specific coordination mechanisms

• Cluster Approach

• Humanitarian civil-military coordination

• Other, e.g. IASC, between certain organizations

2.2. Participants are able to describe different levels of coordination in humanitarian interventions and discuss their advantages, challenges and limitations

• Spectrum of coordination (ALNAP 2015)

  • ^Complete autonomy, communication, cooperative coordination, collaborative activities, merger

• Political & technical challenges of coordination from perspective of an affected country

• Humanitarian civil-military coordination

  • Natural disasters, disease outbreaks, etc.

  • In times of armed conflict