E-learning courses

Recommended e-learning courses support the guidelines and tools offered by the DMERL Framework. These courses will help you build your competency in the DMERL project management cycle, including: Design, Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, Knowledge Management & Learning, and its cross-cutting themes of Protection, Gender and Inclusion, Community Engagement & Accountability, and Data Literacy.

Please choose a portal to link to learning platforms you can access or scroll down for a comprehensive list of courses.

American Red Cross employees and volunteers may also access the IFRC Learning Platform and the American Red Cross EDGE.

E-learning Platforms & Course Lists

Date: May 2006 Event: Earthquake Location: Yogyakarta, Indonesia Photographer: Bonnie Gillespie Release info: no release needed

CAPTION: “Children are especially affected by these types of changes,” said Amin Khoja with American Red Cross Psychosocial Support Field Officer, speaking of the destruction inflicted on areas of Indonesia by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake that destroyed. Khoja heard from parents that children began crying when they saw their school building collapsed. “The village leader offered us space in his front yard, so we set up tarps to have shade and brought out school supplies and games just for the kids. As you can imagine, word spread pretty quickly and children from all over the community literally came running.”

Different platforms are accessible to different groups of learners. This site provides recommendations for courses on www.disasterready.org which is a platform available to anyone with a free account, the IFRC Learning platform accessible to registered Red Cross/Red Crescent employees and volunteers and EDGE, the American Red Cross learning platform available to its employees and volunteers.

Some courses are available on multiple platforms, and therefore available to learners through multiple pathways. When courses are available on multiple platforms, American Red Cross employees and volunteers are encouraged to take the course on EDGE so that they can receive credit for completion in the internal learner tracking system.

The recommended course lists are not exhaustive. The IFRC Learning Platform and www.disasterready.org are regularly updating their platforms and may offer relevant coursework not listed here.

Disaster Ready

Beneficiary Feedback Mechanisms

Duration: 15 minutes

This 15-minute online course explores how a feedback mechanism provides benefits for both beneficiaries and the humanitarian organizations that assist them. A sound feedback mechanism empowers people, builds trust, and facilitates communication between beneficiaries and organizations. In this course, you will learn how to plan and implement an effective feedback mechanism for your organization. Click here.

Collecting Data for the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action – The Application of the WGQs

Duration: 2 hours

This 2-hour course has been designed to support humanitarian programme staff understand, plan for and use the WGQs to identify persons with disabilities in humanitarian action. With case studies, practical examples and a wealth of supporting resources, the e-learning is an essential entry point for all programme staff interested in understanding more about how to use the WGQs. Click here.

Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation

Duration: 20 minutes

This 20-minute module provides an introduction to a key monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tool, the logic model, along with an overview of common M&E terminology, accountability and different types of evaluations.

Upon completion of this module, you will be able to:

Describe logic models and their importance to monitoring and evaluation
Define common monitoring and evaluation terms
Differentiate between monitoring and evaluation
Describe three types of evaluation

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Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) in Emergencies

Duration: 2 hours

This 2-hour course will provide you with an understanding of the key principles of MEAL and help you see the value of using MEAL tools and procedures in emergency contexts,

Objectives:

Gather relevant evidence for decision-making
Be more accountable to the affected population
Continuously learn and adapt

This course is primarily designed for humanitarian aid workers willing to gain an understanding of a MEAL in Emergencies.

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Creating a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Plan

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

In this course, you will engage in scenario-based exercises to deepen your understanding of key concepts in monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), as well as learn the practical steps to create a comprehensive MEL plan for a humanitarian project.

Objectives:

How to Design a Project Using a Theory of Change
How to Monitor by Using Indicators
How to Set Targets and Measure Change by Using Baseline/Endline Data
How to Evaluate and Learn by Asking Questions
How to Be Accountable by Engaging Communities & Affected Populations

The course is aimed at humanitarian workers who are involved in designing, implementing, and learning from projects that directly impact people served by humanitarian organizations.

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IFRC Learning Platform

Community Engagement and Accountability in Disaster and Crisis

Duration: 20 minute

This is an introduction to Community Engagement and Accountability in disaster and crisis.

Community engagement and accountability (CEA) is an approach to Red Cross Red Crescent programming and operations. It is supported by a set of activities that help put communities at the center of what we do, by integrating communication and participation throughout the program cycle or operation.

In this 20-minute online course, you are invited to watch the Surge Series episode on Community Engagement and Accountability in disaster and crisis, to do a self-check, and to explore other related resources. Click here.

Counting People Reached by Red Cross Red Crescent Services

Duration: 50 minutes

This course is for program staff and volunteers working with the Red Cross and Red Crescent. It talks about why counting people reached is an important part of our work and shares strategies for how to do it in a way that balances accuracy with feasibility. This course calls upon us to use data for decision making, driving us toward more relevant programming.

It is based on the IFRC Technical Note on Counting People Reached.

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Community Engagement and Accountability in times of COVID-19

Duration: 3 hours

Communities are central to all interventions for the current COVID-19 pandemic response. It is essential to ensure that all community members, with a focus on the most vulnerable and at risk, play an active role to halt the spread of the virus. Working through community-led solutions and consistently listening and responding to their feedback, doubts and concerns will improve the way we work and lead to better and more sustainable outcomes.

With this rapid Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA) online course you will learn what, why and how CEA approaches are crucial during the COVID-19 response, how to be a good risk communicator, how to safely engage communities despite physical distancing, and how to set up and respond to feedback from communities. Click here.

Click here for Spanish version.

Data and Digital Literacy Introduction Course

Duration: 6 hours

This course demonstrates the ability to relate data and digital literacy terminology and methods to the responsible collection, analysis, visualization and communication of data. It will enable you with fundamental Data and Digital literacy skills. It is intended for anyone interested in learning about data, information, digital technologies and their responsible use.

You can choose to take the module(s) you are most interested in or to complete the entire course by completing all modules. If you complete the whole course, you will be granted a course completion certificate.

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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Duration: 20 minutes

Our data is precious, so it's only right that when dealing with other people's data that we keep it just as safe and secure as if it were our own.

Luckily, the European Union (EU) has come up with some sensible rules to stop our data from being mishandled, saving us not only from a torrent of unwarranted marketing emails but preserving the sanctity of our personal information.

Please note that many entities, such as national societies that are in the EU or are providing services to beneficiaries in the EU are likely subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The IFRC however, as an international organization, is not subject to the GDPR. While this course offers an introduction to the GDPR, you should always consult with other sources, such as legal counsel, for advice on specific data protection matters.

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Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation

Duration: 4 hours

The goal of the course is to develop your understanding of how to use Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) to better help vulnerable people. The main topics include:

1. Describe the meanings of the key M&E concepts as we use them in the IFRC.
2. Describe the key steps necessary to develop an appropriate M&E system for a project or programme.
3. Explain what are the key M&E tools and practices necessary to implement an appropriate M&E system for a project or programme.
4. Apply the key M&E concepts, steps, tools and practices to the definition and development of an M&E system for your own work.

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Click here for Spanish version.

Introduction to Protection, Gender and Inclusion at the IFRC

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Though this online course you will get basic knowledge about Protection, Gender and Inclusion (PGI), better identify of people’s needs and capacities, and gain confidence in how to use and consider PGI in your work to protect and support people who are marginalized or in vulnerable situations.

You will also get to identify your own privileges and also get to know several people from all kinds of social backgrounds, genders and identities. Discover their stories! Click here.

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Monitoring and Evaluation Planning eTraining

Duration: 1.5 hours X 4 sessions

This eTraining (webinar) introduces six key planning steps for a successful monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system: 1) Identify the purpose and scope of the M&E system; 2) Plan for data collection and management; 3) Plan for data analysis; 4) Plan for information reporting and utilization; 5) Plan for M&E human resources and capacity building; 6) Prepare the M&E budget. It is presented in four 1.5-hour recorded sessions that were delivered in real time, with the trainer, Scott Chaplowe (Senior M&E Advisor, IFRC), responding to questions and examples provided by participants.

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Project/Programme Planning (PPP)

Duration: 4 hours 30 minutes

This online course on project/programme planning offers a short but thorough introduction to key skills and methods for project management, focused on results-based project planning. It is spread over two modules, with the first module focusing on the "analysis stage" of planning - using different tools to analyse the situation prior to the design of a project. The second module focuses using the results of this analysis in the "design stage", where you will learn how to use the "logical framework" as a tool to structure and summarise the key aspects of a project that are necessary for it to be well managed. Successful completion of a final test at the end of the course leads to a certificate. Click here.

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Protection, Gender and Inclusion in Disaster and Crisis

Secondary Data Review and Analysis

The Participation Challenge

Duration: 30 minutes

You have been sent to Alexia to help respond to the needs of those living in the camp. Your goal is to build a humanitarian response with these individuals and not just for them. To do this, you must engage with the community and be accountable to them at every step of the programme cycle.

This learning experience is based on the Red Cross and Red Crescent Red Crescent Guide to Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA). It is an opportunity to see how to improve communication, engagement and accountability in all we do.

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EDGE

Counting People Reached by Red Cross Red Crescent Services

Duration: 50 minutes

It is based on the IFRC Technical Note on Counting People Reached.

Click here for English on the American Red Cross EDGE LMS.

Click here for Spanish on the American Red Cross EDGE LMS.

Creating a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Plan

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Objectives:

How to Design a Project Using a Theory of Change
How to Monitor by Using Indicators
How to Set Targets and Measure Change by Using Baseline/Endline Data
How to Evaluate and Learn by Asking Questions
How to Be Accountable by Engaging Communities & Affected Populations

The course is aimed at humanitarian workers who are involved in designing, implementing, and learning from projects that directly impact people served by humanitarian organizations.

Click here for English on the American Red Cross EDGE Platform.

Click here for Spanish on the American Red Cross EDGE Platform.

Click here for French on the American Red Cross EDGE Platform.

E-learning courses

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