This guide has been developed as a “hands-on” resource to help you to use the recently developed Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies (CBHA) competencies framework in all aspects of working with your staff – we’ve called this the Employee Life Cycle. We have designed the guide so that you can dip into it in as much depth as you wish – from a quick “if you only have time to read one thing”, to recommended additional reading if this is an area that you wish to go into further. It has been produced on behalf of the CBHA as a practical working document, principally for humanitarian line managers, as part of a larger programme which aims to strengthen the capacity and ability of the NGO sector (“the Third Pillar”) to deliver appropriate high quality, effective and timely humanitarian responses. The guide gives you a brief introduction to competencies and to the CBHA core humanitarian competencies framework in particular. It is then divided into sections based on the phases that you go through as a manager of staff in a humanitarian context - Planning and preparedness: recruiting and selecting; orientation and setting objectives; managing performance; personal/professional development and finally, debriefing.
Humanitarian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are increasingly collaborating through inter-organi- zational structures such as coalitions, alliances, partnerships, and coordination bodies. NGO’s information technology coordination bodies are groups of NGOs aimed at improving the efficiency of...
This Guide is not meant to be a definitive “how to” manual, but it focuses on issues and areas to consider when undertaking NGO coordination and when setting up an NGO coordination body. It is an entry point into the world of NGO coordination – an area of humanitarian response that is vast in...
General Assembly Resolution 46/182 led to the creation of the Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA). It focuses on the strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian emergency assistance of the United Nations.
