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Members of the NOHA facultyProfessors of other Belgian universitiesECHOThe ICRC and major INGOsOCHA

AdmissionCV and letter of motivation

Registration

Admission is granted on the basis of the past education(Master degree or equivalent) and/or experience in the field.Candidates should send back a CV and a letter of motivationbefore October 12, 2012.

CERTIFICATIONA certificate will be delivered by NOHA

Lecturersinstitutions include

FeesThe participation fees amount to 300 euros/person. Dailylunch and working material are included. Free-of-chargepositions are available for ECHO staff members.

I will attend the NOHA Fall School

I pay 300 euros after my application is selected.The bank account : BE11.3100.9590.0148(SPRI3566 + name)

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Please send the requested information, a CV and a letter of motiva-tion before October 12, 2012 :

by email : catherine.gourbin@uclouvain.be

or back to :

Prof. Catherine GourbinNOHA / Université catholique de LouvainLSSH/IACS/DEMOCollège Jacques LeclercqPlace Montesquieu 1, bte L2.08.031348 Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium

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Création:conceptzowie.com

NOHA2012 Fall School in Humanitarian Action (HA)Humanitarian Action today has to take into account political,cultural, legal and health dimensions. For the fourth time theNOHA (Network on Humanitarian Action) Fall School will beconducted by university staff and field actors in order to provideprofessionals with a global approach and specific tools.

ObjectiveThe Fall School aims at training professionals dealing with projectsin HA in order to give them a critical overview of HA in a multi-disciplinary perspective and the relevant information for evalua-tion of projects. New challenges in HAwill also be examined.

Target audienceCivil servants, staff from local, international and civil society or-ganizations, and more generally those who are involved in HAand feel the need to upgrade their basic knowledge and skills.

Organizing CommitteeCatholic University of Louvain (UCL)This fourth NOHA Fall School is run by the European Networkon Humanitarian Action (NOHA) and the day-to-day manage-ment is supervised by Prof.Catherine Gourbin, national NOHAdirector, and Vincent Eiffling, coordinator at the Catholic Uni-versity of Louvain (UCL) in Belgium.

MarketingThe programme will be marketed among relevant stakeholdersvia the NOHA directors: ECHO, Ministries of Foreign Affairs,INGOs, international Federations of NGOs.

1) Humanitarian action

- History and basic principles ;- types of crises and present-day context.2) Humanitarian action-related disciplines

- International Relations, geopolitics of conflicts andforeign policy ;- international humanitarian law ;- health in emergency situations ;- anthropology and HA ;- management and logistics of HA.3) Contemporary issues

- Peacekeeping and integrated operations ;- interactions/coordination with the Military ;- link between relief, rehabilitation and development (LRRD)with special focus on gender issues and local ownership ;- disaster preparedness.4) Needs Assessment

5) Funding agencies

Content

The NOHA is an international Association of Universitiesworking together to develop training and education oninternational humanitarian action, and to foster academicresearch in that field. NOHA full members are UniversitéPaul Césanne Aix-Marseille III, Universidad de Deusto,Ruhr-Universität Bochum, University College Dublin,Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Université catholique deLouvain, Uppsala Universitet, Warsaw University andVilnius University. The European Master’s Degree inHumanitarianAction was created in 1993 as result of concertedefforts on the part of the Network on HumanitarianAssistance(NOHA) Universities, working in close collaboration withtwo Directorates-General of the European Commission : DGfor HumanitarianAid (ECHO) and DG for Education andCulture. The initiative was a response to a growing need forhigher educational qualifications specifically suited to ad-dressing complex humanitarian emergencies. In 2005, NOHAwas awarded by the European Commission ErasmusMundus Partnerships Programme in order to establish anddevelop a framework for cooperation and student and scholarmobility between the NOHA institutions and 8 partner uni-versities worldwide. More than a decade of experience hasproved the NOHA commitment and capacity to educate andtrain highly committed, interdisciplinary persons who canact at all levels of humanitarian relief operations and who canfunction in a variety of ways to enhance the delivery of hu-manitarian assistance and sustainable actions.

The NOHA networkwww.nohanet.org

DURATION AND TIME PERIOD5-6-7-8-9 November 2012

LANGUAGE OF TRAINING : English

VENUE : Club- Fondation Universitaire Stichtingrue d’Egmontstraat 11, B-1000 Brussels