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Disaster Displacement
Each year, 25 million people are displaced by disasters. In this free online course, you will deepen your understanding of disaster displacement and gain the skills to address it in your own community and government. This course was developed through a partnership between the Norwegian Refugee Council, the Platform on Disaster Displacement, and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction through the generous support of the German Federal Foreign Office.
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Online Course • 4.5 Hours • English, French, Spanish • Free
What You Will Learn
This free online course uses scenarios to help you learn and apply your knowledge. Through the various scenarios, you will help characters make decisions to prevent and manage disaster displacement.
Learn how to:
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Explain the underlying risk drivers that can lead to displacement
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Address displacement risk within laws, policies and governance mechanisms
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Prepare for disaster displacement
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Identify and address the specific assistance and protection needs of disaster displaced people
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Identify how to meet minimum humanitarian principles and standards in disaster displacement contexts, including on response coordination
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Support resilience and find durable solutions for people who are displaced or at risk of disaster displacement and their host communities
Do you have an unreliable internet connection? This course can be downloaded and completed offline.
From January 2024, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has taken the lead on the Words into Actions on Disaster Displacement and assumed management of this eLearning course.
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