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ECB Project Team Supporting Development of Sphere e-Learning Module on Participation and Capacity Building

Published on 1 May 2012

The Sphere Project, the humanitarian sector’s foremost standards-setting organization, has requested support from the ECB Project Team in the testing of a module of its new e-learning program for humanitarian practitioners. The Sphere Handbook in Action is a series of learning modules designed to increase effective use the 2011 edition of the Sphere Handbook. Specifically, the ECB Global Field Project Manager has tested the draft module on “Participation and Building on Capacity” which aims to:

State the value of assessment data in identifying existing capacities of disaster-affected populations, local government, local organisations and communities, traders and suppliers
Actively build on any existing positive coping mechanisms within the affected population to help build their resilience
Support the creation of new community networks and initiatives
Encourage the active participation of the affected population in all stages of the response
Encourage the affected population to take ownership of programmes and to become increasingly independent.

The ECB Global Field Project Manager will give his feedback to the module’s design team. Meanwhile, the draft module has been circulated amongst ECB stakeholders so they too may offer voluntary feedback.

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