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Sustainable Development in Humanitarian Action
- 4 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Starts on May 24, 2020
- Ends on June 21, 2020
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1: What is sustainable development in a humanitarian context?
Week 2. Sustainability in the supply chain: a life-cycle perspective
Week 3. Sustainability in field operations
Week 4: Setting up a sustainability programme
Prerequisite
Instructors
Kathrine Vad
Kathrine Vad is the sustainable development adviser of the ICRC. She's an engineer in industrial ecology with a long experience in environmental policy development and implementation.
Anna Maria Liwak
Sustainable Development Specialist at the International Committee of the Red Cross. Course facilitator.
Editor
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian network, with 190 national societies and 17 million volunteers around the world.
Platform
FutureLearn is a massive open online course (MOOC) learning platform founded in December 2012.
It is a company launched and wholly owned by The Open University in Milton Keynes, England. It is the first UK-led massive open online course learning platform, and as of March 2015 included 54 UK and international University partners and unlike similar platforms includes four non-university partners: the British Museum, the British Council, the British Library and the National Film and Television School.