Department of Risk, Resilience and Humanitarian Action

01Disciplines

• Open

  Disaster risk reduction

  Reducing harm before disaster strikes. Earthquakes such as Kermanshah in 2017 and Kahramanmaraş in 2023 hit Kurdish areas.

  1 courseA set of lessons with an outline, written and reviewed by peers; it carries no academic credit.5 fieldsA narrower topic within a discipline.

• Open

  Climate change adaptation

  Preparing for heat, drought and failing water, and the migration they can cause.

  1 course4 fields

• Open

  Humanitarian action

  Relief and protection under humanitarian principles, in camps, cities and host communities.

  1 course5 fields

• ProposedA proposal only, which exists once the governing body the charter names decides.

  Water security and governance

  Water security studies how shared rivers and aquifers are governed across states and users.

  0 courses4 fields

• Proposed

  Environment and natural resource governance

  Laws and communities that protect forests, rivers and wetlands, and policy on sand and dust storms.

  0 courses4 fields

02Courses

A completion recordA record of what was studied and assessed in a course or pathway; it is not a certificate or a qualification. shows what was studied and assessed. It is not a certificate or a qualification.

03Communities of practice

• Community of practice: Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Adaptation

  A proposed community of practiceA group of practitioners of one field who work together on courses, standards and toolkits; the charter calls it a Standards area. on disaster risk and climate adaptation across Kurdistan.

  Proposed

• Community of practice: Health, Protection and Humanitarian Coordination

  A proposed community of practice on safeguarding, referral standards and humanitarian guidance.

  Proposed

• Community of practice: Project Preparation, Safeguards and Procurement

  A proposed community of practice on how projects are prepared, safeguarded and procured.

  Proposed

04More in this faculty

• Department of Economics

  How the economies Kurds live in grow, divide wealth and fail, and what policy can do.

• Department of Enterprise, Finance and Philanthropy

  Enterprises, savings, remittances and giving, at home and across borders.

• Department of Social Development

  Welfare, care and the ties that hold communities together.

• Department of Urban and Regional Development

  Cities, regions and the places people live.