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How does the Register work?
• RedR Australia selects and
trains people with suitable
skil ls and experience for
humanitarian re lief work to
form the stand-by register.
• UN agencies and NGOs send
requests to RedR Australia for
people to fi ll particular roles.
• Regi ster members send
an up-to-date CV with their
expression of interest for an
assignment.
• The agency/NGO selects
the most su itable person for
the role and confirms the
assignment details.
• The RedR Australia register
member signs a contract either
with RedR (for UN agencies) or
with the NGO.
• Medical, travel and insurance
expenses are always covered.
• People deployed to UN
agencies receive a sa lary and
a living allowance.
• Remuneration and conditions
vary for assignments with
NGOs.
• Th e RedR Register member
is deployed to the field for a
period that may vary from 2
weeks to up to 6 months.
• RedR provides support predeployment,
in the field and
post-return with briefings,
medical checks, technical
advice and any other support
required such as post-return
counselling.
• The register member in the
field is expected to send
regu lar reports to RedR
Australia on conditions, work
completed, constraints and
recommendations.
• Register members also support
RedR Austral ia's work in a
variety of ways - training course
simulations, interview panel s,
returned relief worker talks,
articles and presentations
for industry associations and
education institutions.
Training Courses
The two core courses required to
be on the register are:
Essentials of Humanitarian
Practice - as described above.
Personal Security &
Communications - This is a
scenario based course that
provides the tools to manage
persona l safety, to operate
communications equipment and
develops team skil ls.
Other training courses offered by
RedR include:
Water, Environment and
Sanitation in Emergencies - The
purpose of the training is to
introduce participants to concepts
of public health engineering
/ environmental health in
emergencies and to familiarise
them with standard equipment
appl ied in the field. By the end of
the cou rse, participants should be
able to understand:
• The links between water,
sanitation and health.
• The nature of, and the threats
posed by, environmental
diseases.
• The importance and main
elements of hygienepromotion.
• The complexity in delivering
safe water and sanitation in an
emergency.
• The standard equipment used
in the field for emergency
WatSan response.
• The different response
mechanism to WatSan
in emergencies of major
humanitarian agencies such as
the IFRC, Oxfam, MSF and UN.
Humanitarian Logistics - The
Hum anitarian Logistics course
focuses on the importance of
logistics in the provision of aid
to disaster survivors as well as
its place in carrying out other
disaster management operations.
It examines the design of logistics
systems and the co-ordination
required by the various
agencies and actors involved in
implementing the system and
carrying out the operation. The
course is supported by subject
matter experts from the UN's World
Food Programme (WFP) and Joint
Logistics Centre (J LC). This is a
Logistics course designed for nonlogisticians.
The key objectives are
that by the end of the course
participants shou ld be able to:
• To examine the humanitarian
logistic system and the
activities that a logistics
operation may entail.
• To build learning on logistics
processes.
• To look at the sharing of
information, tool s and
resources of an effective
networking / collaboration
between agencies.
For anyone interested more
information is avai lable on their
website, www.redr.org.au . where
much of the info for the article
was sourced.