Competency-based standardized training for humanitarian providers: making humanitarian assistance a professional discipline.
The number of people employed in international humanitarian care is growing at a yearly rate of 6%. The demand for better coordination, accountability, and training has led to a need for standardized humanitarian training programs for providers. Training should be based on comprehensive core competencies that providers must demonstrate in addition to their skill-specific competencies. This report explores the competencies specific to humanitarian training that are practice- and application-oriented, teachable, and measurable. Competency-based, standardized programs will be used to select humanitarian workers deployed in future crises and to guide the professionalization of this discipline.
Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal Canada.
Kirsten
K
Johnson
Leanne
L
Idzerda
Rachel
R
Baras
Jessica
J
Camburn
Karen
K
Hein
Peter
P
Walker
Frederick M
FM
Burkle
D000533:Altruism; D003162:Competency-Based Education / Q000592:standards*; D004190:Disasters; D006801:Humans; D012066:Relief Work; D014481:United States