Gamification for Humanitarian Learning introduces role playing, storytelling, scenarios, peer-to-peer feedback and simulation exercises to create and deploy games for highly engaging learning in the humanitarian sector.
Our Games
In 90 Days
In 90 Days is a new online game designed to help humanitarians learn how to respond effectively to the many challenges faced during the first three months of an emergency response.
This exciting game has 3 scenarios: a conflict zone, a pandemic and a population movement caused by climate change. Each scenario presents different challenges, and learners have to explore the various trade-offs humanitarians must make while responding to an emergency.
The game is available in English, Arabic, Spanish and French and you can gain digital badges that can be displayed on your HPass and LinkedIn profiles to showcase your learning.
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Coaching and Mentoring for Humanitarians
This game will help you to put into practice the coaching skills taught in the Introduction to Coaching and Mentoring course on Kaya. It will enable you to practically apply your coaching knowledge and skills, and assess the impact of your coaching practice.
- Number of players: 2
- Get better at: Coaching, interpersonal skills, management
- Relevant Kaya resources: Introduction to Coaching and Mentoring (online course)
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The Flood
A storm and flooding strike your town, affecting many. This game gives you a view of the world of volunteering. Get ready to face challenges and make quick decisions – testing your abilities to be an effective volunteer. Good luck!
- Number of players: 2
- Get better at: Adapting to relief contexts, interpersonal skills
- Relevant Kaya resources: Volunteer Essentials (online course); Philippines Volunteer Essentials (online course)
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Design Thinking in Practice
Design Thinking in Practice is a step-by-step journey in understanding a context and problem, and developing corresponding solutions that are effective, suitable, and sustainable. In the game, you will go over a sequence of activities and emerge with a solution that is informed by a deeper understanding of the user you are designing for.
- Number of players: 1+
- Get better at: User-centred design, creative process
- Relevant Kaya resources: Concept Building Toolkit, Innovation Essentials online course
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Welcome Aboard
Welcome Aboard is a game for organisations to onboard new employees in a fun, engaging manner that accounts for the unique value that the organisation and new employee bring to each other. The game includes fun activities to introduce a new employee to the organisation’s vision that is uniquely tailored to them.
- Number of players: 2
- Get better at: Organisational onboarding, culture building
- Relevant Kaya resources: Personal development skills
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Future of Skills
This game is a forecast of the future of skills reaching ten years into the future, to roughly the year 2030. This forecast is not a prediction, nor even a set of recommendations. It is a tool to understand what futures are possible, with some guidance and suggestions on how to work backwards from the future to what we can do today.
- Number of players: 2
- Get better at: Strategic foresight, planning strategically
- Relevant Kaya resources: Humanitarian Futures and Foresight
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Designing a Campaign
This game takes you through the key steps to strategical build an effective campaign. You will work with two other players in this collaborative game to achieve this. Together you will ideate and create an outline for a campaign, and provide feedback to improve and develop the campaign together.
- Number of players: 3
- Get better at: Building an effective campaign
- Relevant Kaya resources: Using social media professionally
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Staying Motivated whilst Working Remotely
Working remotely doesn’t mean that your day-to-day work changes, it only changes where you do it from. Working remotely brings new opportunities to connect with your team members online. This game invites you to share with your colleague about your work using quick responses on your mobile, and to respond to your colleague about their work over a one week period.
- Number of players: 2
- Get better at: team building, connecting with your colleagues
- Relevant Kaya resources: Remote management webinar
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Challenge Your Gender Assumptions
Challenge Your Gender Assumptions is a game that deals with the associations and assumptions we often make about gender. Be prepared to express and reflect on your own notions and biases, and emerge more sensitive to the people around you!
- Number of players: 2
- Get better at: Gender-based awareness, critical thinking
- Relevant Kaya resources: Gender in Humanitarian Action (online course); Gender in Conflict (immersive film)
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“I found the course very useful because it gave me an insight about how gamification could be applied in the humanitarian sector. It also allowed to gain knowledge and some practical skills on an innovative way to design and deliver training.”
Giulia, Gamification course participant
“My goal is to make the education environment more enjoyable and fruitful. Gamification will be helpful to me. I have to enrich my ICT skills, add more game elements and make better games.”
Sahida, Gamification workshop participant, Bangladesh
“I loved every second of this brilliantly paced and super relevant workshop! Thank you!”
Rabia, Gamification workshop participant, Jordan
Our Gamification Toolkit
What is gamification? How can gamification aid learning, what value can it add? How do I get started on creating games? Our toolkit gives you all the answers!
Our Gamification Course
Gamification for Humanitarian Learning introduces game elements and user journeys preparing learners to use these tools to create and deploy games for highly engaging learning in the humanitarian sector.
