Middle East

Becoming HPass Certified: Q&A with Alaa Albakour from Violet Organisation

Violet is one of the latest organisations to obtain HPass Certified Status. We talked to Alaa Albakour, Youth and Women Empowerment Manager, about what this means for the organisation.

Global

HPass Certification: Q&A with Dr. Victoria Fontan, American University of Afghanistan

The American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) is one of the latest organisations to obtain HPass Certified Status. We talked to Victoria Fontan, Vice President of Academic Affairs at AUAF, about what this means for the University.

Global

Improving project management skills with Kaya

Samuel discovered Kaya through the Reliefweb website and has been using the platform for one month. He took the PMD Pro: Project Management course and found it extremely useful to develop his understanding of the project management body of knowledge.

East Africa

Learning with Kaya: Meet Agnes

Agnes is from Kenya and works as a Livelihoods and Protection Caseworker at the International Rescue Committee. Her career decisions have all been driven by a deep enthusiasm for Protection and empowerment work - particularly concerning refugees, women, and the youth. Agnes has completed multiple courses on Kaya and currently has three on going!

Bangladesh

Learning with Kaya: Meet Ahsan

Md. Ahsan Habib is from Bangladesh and works for a national NGO focusing on WASH and disaster response. He has successfully completed multiple courses on Kaya, and particularly enjoyed the course 'Communication for immunization'.

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

Supporting Humanitarian Learning in Jordan through Gamification: A Localized Pilot

In a joint effort to introduce, localize and contextualize learning around gamification for the Jordanian humanitarian sector, Tech Tribes, in partnership with the Humanitarian Leadership Academy and ITCILO, hosted a workshop in Amman titled “Gamification for Humanitarian Learning” from 16-18 June, 2019.