Asia

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 and Eastern Europe

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 and Southern 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 and Southern 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 and Eastern Europe

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.

GlobalMiddle East and Eastern Europe

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.

Global

Learning at War Child Holland: Meet Leonie Meijerink

In our latest interview with a humanitarian learning expert, we speak to Leonie Meijerink, Learning Organisation Manager at War Child Holland.

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Learning at the International Committee of the Red Cross: Challenges & Opportunities

Maja Kuna-Parrish is a Techno-Pedagogical Engineer at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). She is in charge of developing learning materials for a diverse and international workforce of over 18,000 people.