Advanced Training Program
On Humanitarian Action (ATHA)

ATHA’s main objective is to foster innovative responses to current challenges to humanitarian protection by capturing new approaches and insights of practitioners through informal, professional exchange, such as tailored research on practitioner questions, interactive briefings on the ATHA portal, focusing on key questions of protection, closed, online workshops on issues of interest, open podcast exchanges. ATHA aims to enhance its own contribution to critical conversations around current practices by addressing growing challenges to the protection of civilians and the implementation of international humanitarian and human rights standards; strengthening relationships among professionals engaged in humanitarian action, especially at the local level, and fostering regional communities of practice around specific contexts.

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WEBCASTS

The monthly webcast allows professionals around the world to engage with a global panel of experts and practitioners on current dilemmas of humanitarian action.

 

THEMATIC BRIEFS


Read in-depth analysis of key legal and policy issues facing humanitarian professionals and explore how they impact your work in the field.

  

  

BLOG

Read our weekly analysis of current trends and challenges in the humanitarian section, and explore practitioner perspectives through our Guest Blog series.

 

 

ATHA is supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)

TRAININGS

Join us for immersive, case-based trainings and practitioner working groups, where you'll exchange with colleagues across agencies about legal and policy challenges for humanitarian protection.   

  

E-LEARNING

Broaden your understanding of the fundamental concepts of humanitarian action through free, interactive, self-paced e-learning modules.

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Featured Publication

Ukraine - Conflict in the Donbas: Civilians Hostage to Adversarial Geopolitics

Published: 
August, 2020

Since 2014, the war in the Donbas, fueled and sustained by local and regional political priorities, has inflicted a heavy burden of civilian death, injury, displacement, destruction, and lasting trauma. As the conflict continues, the people of Donbas are more isolated than ever from the rest of their country, subjected to discrimination and stigmatization by both the Ukrainian authorities and separatist leaders. Today, a confluence of factors continues to drive conflict in Eastern Ukraine.

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A full list of ATHA's Team Members can be found here. 

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