Key Projects

The humanitarian sector, along with the rest of the world, has pivoted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, altering the landscape for humanitarian work and learning. This report aims to contribute to our understanding of the humanitarian learning landscape by identifying learning needs along with suitable interventions in general as well as in relation to the changes caused by the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected communities all over the world with devastating impacts on individuals and communities worldwide. International aid organisations are also heavily impacted by the situation.

These reports outline the findings from two RedR UK Learning Needs Assessments on the challenges organisations are facing within the context of COVID-19 and how these have changed in the first six months of the global pandemic. Based on these assessments, capacity building needs and solutions are outlined, as well as next steps and recommendations.

Uganda currently hosts around 1.4m refugees, mainly from neighbouring countries South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. With further threats from disease, locust infestation, and nearby conflicts, as well as the impact of the current nationwide lockdown to combat Covid-19, the humanitarian need is only expected to increase in the future.  

Working with the Ugandan Institute of Professional Engineers (UIPE), RedR UK is building in-country capacity to respond to these developing humanitarian needs through the training of local engineers, so that they can transfer their technical skills to a humanitarian context. 

The HPass Quality Standards draw together best practice in humanitarian learning and assessment from across the global humanitarian sector. There are two sets of Quality Standards: The Humanitarian Learning Standards and the Standards for Assessment of Humanitarian Competencies.

The Standards can be used by learning and/ or assessment providers to review and improve the quality of the humanitarian learning and assessment they provide.

While the humanitarian community continues to improve the accountability, effectiveness and coordination of emergency response, there is a growing recognition that substantial challenges remain.

Together with Project Concern International and funded by USAID, RedR UK is working to strengthen and promote the Neighborhood Approach; a set of guidelines that aim to create an integrated, holistic and inclusive approach to urban humanitarian response.

With the increasing growth and vulnerability of cities to natural and manmade disasters, there is a growing need to adapt humanitarian expertise to urban crises.

RedR UK is working in partnership with the Global Alliance for Urban Crises to develop the Urban Competency Framework; a comprehensive and adaptable set of minimum capability standards for effectively responding to urban crises.

In an ever-urbanising world, aid agencies and relief work must too shift to being more effective and adaptable to working in urban areas, and those operating in the spaces must understand the unique challenges that urban environments present.

Funded by Lloyds’ Charities Trust, RedR UK is implementing the ‘Ready to Respond’ project, aiming to increase the ability of individuals and organisations involved in humanitarian action to prepare for and respond to emergencies, especially in urban centres.