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So, You’re a Humanitarian and Transitioning to a Consultancy Career?

1/5/2025

Author: Rich Parker

2025 marks a decade since I launched a consultancy company in support of humanitarian and emergency response organizations.

For anyone who is contemplating stepping out as a consultant this year, I wanted to share a few key learnings that I wish had been available when I first began.

I hope you find it useful - and wish you every success on your journey.

May this be a more peaceful year.

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The 3 Golden Rules for Localizing Your Training Strategy

8/25/2024

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Author: Rich Parker

Localization is the only solution with sufficient reach to meet the challenges of preparing a global emergency workforce.

This blog reveals the Three Golden Rules when forming a localized training strategy within your capacity building programmes.

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5 Hacks You Won’t Find in any Training Manual for Engineering Affordable Solutions

11/3/2023

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Author: Rich Parker

Every training manager has their own unique budget but when it comes to how you use it, the pressures are often the same. Sometimes it can feel like you're being asked to work miracles.

But optimizing financial resources is part of the job, and goes hand in glove with the other two big challenges of our time: delivering consistent quality and reaching everyone that needs to be trained.

Here are some tricks for finding affordable solutions when building your training system...

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5 Hacks to Reach Everyone that Needs to be Trained

11/3/2023

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Author: Rich Parker

So you ran a great course. Participant evaluations were off the chart. You felt like it may have made a difference for the lucky few… but now what?

Building a strong training system is about more than just delivering a high quality event in isolation.
It’s about finding ways to keep all of your target audience engaged and continually updated amidst their busy lives, for as long as your organization needs them to be skills-ready.

It’s about sustaining your contact with larger numbers of people, for longer.

Here are some hacks to enhancing your reach as a training manager...

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5 hacks to raise the quality and consistency of your training

11/3/2023

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Author: Rich Parker

According to a recent poll I posted in our network of humanitarian training managers, these three issues are what 67% of trainers lose the most sleep over:

Achieving consistent quality
Reaching everyone that needs to be trained
Finding affordable solutions

At Training In Aid, we’re focused on these problems too. 𝐖𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲.

So, let’s reboot the dialogue and exchange a few of these ideas to help move humanitarian training beyond the basics and reach new heights.

Lets get started with the 5 hacks you wont find in any training manual to help you and your team raise the quality and consistency of your training...

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My insight into the world of humanitarian and emergency response

4/28/2022

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By Jeanette Dyson

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.

Then the world shut down.

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Empowering EMTs through training

3/30/2022

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Author: Jeanette Dyson

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.

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How training can change perceptions and accelerate progress

3/23/2022

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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...

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Virtual, face-to-face or something in between? The changing landscape of humanitarian training

9/23/2021

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Author: Jeanette Dyson

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.

In our last blog we talked about the changes to humanitarian training and simulation exercises, that were necessitated by Covid-19 and subsequent lockdowns.

While this had a huge impact on many aid actors and their plans in the short term, the pandemic has undeniably accelerated the development of – and exposure to – new, technology-based, exercise delivery models.

As many countries begin to emerge from the harshest of restrictions, training departments and providers are beginning to look at the road ahead through a fresh perspective.

How might we convert the wider range of choices now available into a more adaptive, resilient and cost-effective training calendar?

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Has Covid-19 changed humanitarian training forever?

6/16/2021

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Author: Jeanette Dyson

Necessity might be the mother of invention. But reinvention has certainly proved necessary over the past 18 months as the humanitarian and emergency response sector has fought to find new ways of training its workforce.

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