Training & Learning

Libya Floods Emergency response

Free online training modules:

Take our free e-learning modules in your own time to be equipped for disaster response in the Libyan context.

Rapid Damage Assessment of Flood-Affected Buildings

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This module is designed to help you understand the need for damage assessments, and how buildings can be restored to pre-flooding conditions. The module includes several examples from experiences during the 2023 flooding in eastern Libya. It is for informational purposes only, and completion of these lessons does not certify the learner to conduct damage assessments themselves.

Estimated completion time: 60 minutes

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

  • Identify whether flooding produces local or global damage 
  • Identify typical structural defects encountered when inspecting flood damaged buildings
  • Explain the importance of a standardised and cohesive method for assessing building damage.

 التقييم السريع للأضرار التي لحقت بالمباني المتضررة من الفيضانات

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الهدف من هذه الوحدة هو أن يفهم المشاركون الحاجة إلى تقييمات الأضرار، وكيف يمكن إعادة المباني إلى ظروف ما قبل الفيضانات. تتضمن الوحدة العديد من الأمثلة من الأحداث خلال فيضانات عام 2023 في شرق ليبيا. هذه الوحدة مخصصة لأغراض معلوماتية فقط، ولا يصادق إكمال هذه الدروس على المتعلم لإجراء تقييمات الأضرار بنفسه. 

وقت الانتهاء المقدر: 60 دقيقة

أهداف التعلم 

 بنهاية هذه الوحدة، ستتمكن من: 

تحديد ما إذا كانت الفيضانات تسبب أضرارًا محلية أو عالمية.

تحديد العيوب الإنشائية التي تمت مواجهتها عند فحص المباني المتضررة من الفيضانات. 

شرح أهمية اتباع طريقة موحدة خاضعة للمعايير في تقييم أضرار المبنى.

Following the devastating floods on Sunday in the city of Derna, Libya, prompted by the collapse of two dams in a powerful storm, more than 5300 people are known to have died. At least 10,000 people are reported missing, while 30,000 people are estimated to have lost their homes.

We're drawing on our experience in the region, contextual insights, and recent work on the 2022 floods in Pakistan to provide capacity development and support to local responders. Providing technical expertise to local partners, we enable them to respond effectively, inclusively, and sustainably to this devastating flood.

Our response in built on our rapid needs assessment among local engineers and humanitarian responders on the ground, to assess where capacity gaps might exist and seek addressing those training needs. Adapting to the needs arising, we curate a contextualised response accordingly. 

Drawing on our existing training material relating to blast-induced damage assessments in Ukraine, Iraq, and Syria, and seismic damage assessments in Türkiye and Syria, we are working with our partners and expert Associate Trainers to develop highly contextualised training material from our exiting Arabic-language material on damage assessments and related topics, as well as other training on related topics.

Learning Needs Assessment 

RedR UK conducted this in-depth and detailed Learning Needs Assessment to better inform the ongoing response. The overarching questions that this Learning Needs Assessment sought to assess are:

  • What are the current capacity gaps and learning needs amongst humanitarian responders to the Libya floods?
  • What are the capacity strengths amongst humanitarians responding to the floods?
  • How can humanitarian partners best utilise these strengths?

The full report can be read in both Arabic and English here: 

Learning Needs Assessment (Arabic) 

Learning Needs Assessment (English) 

Supporting the flood response in Derna

How we're responding in Libya

Empowering engineers and other responders to provide safe, effective, needs-based humaniatarian response in Libya:

  • Conducting and publishing a rapid learning needs assessment (RLNA) on capacity gaps in the flood response, with a focus on engineering learning needs. The RLNA will help us achieve localisation and contextualisation for the trainings.

  • Developing and delivering online modules in Arabic and English on topics prioritised in the RLNA, such as flooding damage assessments, or cross-cutting topics such as protection and community engagement.

  • Deliverying an additional Training of Trainers to on-ground engineers (online), increasing training and dissemination capacity amongst specialists.

The multiplier effect of this intervention means that the humnaitarian assistance to a very large number of affected people will be improved on modest investment into capacity development of local actors.

Supporting local technical and non-technical responders to assess damage to building and determine safe entry:

  • Delivering online faciliated Rapid Damage Assessments training in Arabic and English to engineers.

  • Supporting the development and dissemination of tools and guidance on structural damage assessments.

  • Adapting Rapid Damage Assessments training for face-to-face delivery, delivering it in Libya facilitated by engineers we have previously trained in other contexts.