Middle East

Learning with Kaya: Meet Sara

Sara currently works as a Mental Health Coordinator and Supervisor in a local NGO in Lebanon. The country's economic crisis has made it very difficult for people to pay for courses as restrictions have been set on bank accounts. However, Sara heard about Kaya, our free online learning platform, and this has allowed her to expand her knowledge for free.

East Africa

Learning with Kaya: Meet Samuel

Samuel works as a Monitoring and Evaluation Intern at USAID. As someone still in the early stages of his career, a course on Kaya gave him greater knowledge in M&E. He chose to work in the humanitarian sector as he wants to make a difference in the quality of life for his fellow Ugandans.

Global

Learning with Kaya: Meet Adriana

Adriana found out about Kaya through one of our LinkedIn posts and has completed the ‘Introduction to Humanitarian Law’ course. As lockdown has given Adriana more free time to focus on her development, she says Kaya has been of great help!

Global

New Kaya portal launched: CTG-Learning

Kaya’s mission to enable people to better prepare for, respond to and recover from crises through free learning really resonates with CTG – we want to support our staff in the field as best we can, and providing them with free access to e-learning specifically catering to the situations they are faced with was incredibly appealing.

East Africa

Learning with Kaya: Lydia’s story

Lydia lives in Kenya, she is looking to develop a career within the humanitarian sector and has already completed 5 courses on Kaya!

Global

Meet Gagandeep Kaur, Instructor and Employment Specialist at International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Gagandeep Kaur works as an Instructor and Employment Specialist at International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Turlock, California. She recently completed a few online courses on Kaya and kindly accepted to share her learning experience with us.

Middle East

Providing humanitarian learning to Palestinian refugees in Jordan

One of the best things about Kaya is how it connects us to local humanitarian communities around the world. A few weeks ago, we connected with Khaled Al Shaka’a on Facebook, where he had shared how his organisation ‘One Love’ had been using Kaya’s online courses to educate and connect humanitarian volunteers in Jerash Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan.

GlobalMiddle East

Learning with Kaya: Jasmin’s story

Jasmin Lilian Diab is a Canadian-Lebanese researcher, author, manager and consultant in the areas of International Affairs, Dialogue, Gender, and Migration and Refugee Studies. She recently completed two online courses on our elearning platform Kaya, and kindly agreed to share her learning experience.

Philippines

Social Accountability and Professionalism in the Medical Curriculum: Rearing a Generation of Humanitarian Physicians

Humanitarian situations draw upon many professions and skills associated with the provision of protection and assistance. Such examples are law, engineering, and most importantly, medicine.

Global

Gamification for Humanitarian Learning: Meet Rebecca from Australian Red Cross

Rebecca Ridings currently lives in sunny Queensland, Australia, and works as a Virtual Capability Coach for Australian Red Cross. She recently took part in a virtual gamification event organised by the Humanitarian Leadership Academy and kindly agreed to share her experience.

GlobalMiddle East

Developing an online diploma for humanitarian professionals in the MENA region

In our latest interview with a humanitarian learning expert, we speak to Hussein Ismail, Coordinator of the Middle Eastern Center for Humanitarian Advancement (MECHA) and Curriculum Development Manager at the Global Health Institute of the American University of Beirut.

Global

Recognising humanitarian skills through digital badging: meet Ashley Inselman from World Vision

Ashley Inselman is a Global Humanitarian Surge Capacity Development Adviser at World Vision International, where she has worked for 19 years. Across a network of around 100 offices, Ashley’s role is to identify and develop people for the organisation’s surge team, for deployment when a crisis hits.