IHP trainings and exercises
The importance of training and exercising cannot be overstated, particularly to prepare staff for international field operations in difficult and often high-risk environments but also to ensure understanding of mandates, systems and procedures.
Training courses
The IHP members have strong institutional training and exercise capabilities. The members have training centres with facilities designed for both indoor and outdoor training events. IHP hosts other organisations’ training programmes, such as UNOCHA, OCHA/UNDAC, WFP and UNHCR. Individual IHP organisations also provide trainings to different UN organisations, the EU and the IFRC. IHP hosts or supports other organisations' training events, for example the UNHCR Workshop on Wemergency Management (WEM), UNDAC induction training etc.
Furthermore, IHP also delivers three types of internal trainings for IHP personnel, to ensure that all personnel is well prepared for emergency response deployments, namely;
- Basic trainings - E.g. induction trainings and UN safety and security in the field, with the aim to provide understanding of the IHP framework and concept and the international humanitarian response.
- Specialisation trainings - Trainings based on IHP modular support packages e.g. base camp management, ICT, Information Management etc.
- IHP Field Management training
- IHP Field Security Management training
- IHP Base Camp Course
- IHP ICT Support Staff course
- IHP Operational Support Staff Course
- Mission specific trainings - Specific pre-deployment trainings and briefings with the aim of preparing staff and teams for an emergency assignment.
Exercises
Exercise TRIPLEX is an IHP exercise focusing on strengthening preparedness and response regarding coordination and effective emergency response. Within this main purpose, there are a number of aims, one being to provide a civilian planned and managed training platform. The targets of this platform are relevant actors to train humanitarian response and especially coordination and cooperation. Another aim is for IHP to train internal cooperation and compatibility as well as training coordination, cooperation and support to/with humanitarian actors.
TRIPLEX is a large-scale field simulation exercise providing a unique value as one of only few civilian-run multilateral humanitarian response field emergency simulations. Additionally to the IHP members, the exercise regularly involves, amongst others, OCHA, WFP, UNICEF, UNHCR, IOM, WHO, the IFRC, OPCW, the EU (ECHO), Non-Governmental Organisations, and military organisations’ CIMIC.
The last Exercise TRIPLEX took place in Norway in 2016, hoisted by DSB, with the participation of over 30 organisations working in humanitarian emergencies. There was participation of citizens from over 50 countries worldwide.
The next TRIPLEX
The next TRIPLEX was planned to be carried out in August 2019 but due to uncertainty about funding the exercise was postponed until 2020. The exercise is now been cancelled since the host did not have the necessary resources available in 2020. IHP is therefore currently (spring 2019) investigating what the possibilities are of carrying out another exercise TRIPLEX at a later date.
IHP TRAINING SYSTEM
