International Training on Sphere and CHS Standards April 23rd – 24th in Bangkok, Thailand

Learn how to promote Sphere within your network, and how this benefits the people affected by crisis and disaster that you serve. By the end of the module, you will be able to explain:

the Sphere Approach to humanitarian response;

Training Objectives

After completing the training, participants will be able to:

• Explain the concept of Sphere and put it into practice by linking it with project designing, planning, implantation and evaluation phases.
• Development of humanitarian context and Sphere
• Development of Sphere framework and Roadmap in Humanitarian context (Response and early recovery)
• Understand the philosophy (Humanitarian Charter) and principles of Sphere.
• Develop Sectoral Indicators, M&E Plan for their identified projects.
• Have a thorough knowledge and understanding of the Sphere Handbook
• Development of strategic results framework around lifesaving approach
• Insights in different Humanitarian Approaches
• Be able to use the lifesaving/Sphere in their own fields of work for the planning, implementation and monitoring of projects
• Understand how to apply Results-Based Management throughout the project cycle.
• The implications of Sphere for your organisation in terms of organisational capacity, and cooperation with key actors/ stakeholders
• The use of evidence from monitoring and evaluation in decision-making
• Ensuring quality and accountability in humanitarian and development programmes by focusing on CHS (Core Humanitarian Standards)

Training Goal:

The goal of the Training is to give the trainers the background knowledge, skills and practical experience in order to make them capable of delivering the knowledge and technical assistance to the communities and their partners/organizational staff in Humnanitrain context around SPHERE.

It also aims at improving management effectiveness and accountability by defining realistic expected humanitarian results, monitoring progress toward the achievement of expected results, integrating lessons learned into management decisions and reporting on performance.

Target Group:

The training is aimed at experienced professionals, scholars, teachers, postgraduate students, I/NGOs, UN agencies, social workers, and anyone else with a keen interest in approaching M&E, project planning and management creatively.

About Resource Persons:

Muhammad Waqqas Ali, Senior Result-based Monitoring and Evaluation Expert, Team Leader, REgister Sphere Trainer:

https://spherestandards.org/training/tr-info/muhammad-waqqas-ali/

The trainer has more than 19 years of international experience from Europe, Africa and Asia for Islamic Relief, UNDP, WFP,SIDA, GAC, Mercy Corps, OCHA, Care International, Welthungerhilfe and Cesvi INGOs. He has worked with Results-Based Management one way or the other continuously since 2014 starting as a planning and monitoring advisor in UNDP and subsequently working as a trainer and consultant establishing RBM systems in a long range of programmes and sectors both in Turkey as well as in the UK. He has extensive experience as a trainer using a wide variety of mixed learning tools, training managers and employees in ministries, municipalities, universities, international NGOs and the private sector in project management, participatory planning and monitoring, Theory of Change, Logical Framework on RBM approach, stakeholder analysis, RBM as a concept etc. Additionally, he is part of the Humanitarian Development Academy UK as a trainer and course coordinator. Since 2017, he has served as a consultant for the International Institute of Peace and Development Studies Bangkok, Thailand for International training of trainers on Result Based Management Monitoring and Evaluation.