25th October 2023
Humanitarian capacity strengthening is constantly evolving to be more accessible, inclusive and contextually relevant. Also evolving is the audience, formats for delivery and balance of power from who accesses training, how it is accessed and how it is delivered.
Rose Wahome, HLA Learning Solutions Specialist in East and Southern Africa region shares an interesting and insightful hour with Nwando Okoh, HLA Communications and Marketing Specialist. The conversation segues from Rose’s specialised background in education to reflections on actual face-to-face and blended trainings from Education in Emergencies to Emergency Preparedness, providing valuable insight on how interested local organisations can partner with the HLA to access inclusive reactive capacity strengthening training and resources from HLA’s preparedness portfolio.
Rose shares real life examples as well as nuggets of wisdom reminding us of the human in humanitarian. She says:
“We start to learn if we acknowledge that we don’t know everything… if we are open to sharing what we know and also listening to what other people have, that in itself is a very good place to be as a person, as a human being.”
“Simple choices that you make with your programmes can actually have very dire consequences for communities, even when you were not thinking about it. For you it was just a project, just an activity that needed to be done but it ends up doing harm.”
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About Rose Wahome
Rose Wahome is a versatile humanitarian. As the learning solutions specialist in East and Southern Africa, her work is focused on Education in Emergencies and Humanitarian Training. Rose brings more than 18 years’ of experience spanning across managing and coordinating programmes in complex emergency settings to providing education technical assistance to teams, consulting, evaluating, training, leading projects, teaching and researching.
Rose has worked in stable, refugee, conflict and post conflict settings in Kenya, South Sudan, Ethiopia, DRC, Lebanon, Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Somalia and Syria supporting public and third sectors including Ministry of Education Kenya and South Sudan, Save the Children, UNESCO, NORCAP, UNICEF and the Institute of Education, London.
Rose holds a Bachelor of Education Arts in Mathematics and Economics from Egerton University and an MA in Educational Planning, Economics and International Development from the IOE, University of London. She is trained on the SPHERE & INEE minimum standards; Education in Emergencies (EiE); field safety & security procedures including radio communication; Disaster Risk Reduction; Advocacy; and Alternative Learning Programs among others.
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