I became involved in the world of humanitarian and emergency response training in the summer of 2020; an unforeseen yet one of the welcome consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Training In Aid (TIA) has a global reputation for providing world-leading emergency response and preparedness training that supports international humanitarian and emergency response organisations. Pre-pandemic, most of TIAs training was face-to-face. Participants and trainers would travel from around the world to a central location to benefit from TIA’s experiential training courses that are proven to facilitate and expedite learning.
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Then the world shut down.

The old proverb: give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime, was perfectly illustrated in a recent training course on behalf of the World Health Organization (WHO), for the Emergency Medical Team (EMT) African Region Training Centre.

Author: Jeanette Dyson ​

In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) introduced a classification process for international Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) and in supporting national EMTs to progress within their country’s own accreditation system. Since that time, we’ve worked closely with WHO and other organisations across the global EMT community, playing a pivotal role in evolving EMT training for teams around the world.

The changes to humanitarian training and simulation exercises that we discussed in our last blog have significantly expanded the range of training options available to the sector.