Our Humanitarian Academy for Development (HAD) delivered courses to more than 250 colleagues this year. A further 500 staff completed e-learning on subjects including child safeguarding, risk management and modern slavery. Adapting to the challenges of the pandemic, HAD strengthened its ‘blended learning’ offering and is now in a position to deliver almost all its courses virtually, whether to humanitarian practitioners within Islamic Relief or to those in other organisations.
“I needed to build my knowledge within the international standards that are required for a project manager,” says Ahmad Saad, who was among those to benefit from the training. Head of quality assurance and control for the Directorate of Mine Action, he described the Project D course as, “relatable, informative, well managed and presented”.
HAD facilitated eight virtual internships, with several of the interns going on to work for Islamic Relief. In addition 10 graduates undertook placements across the charity, thanks to our graduate training scheme, while the UK government’s Kickstart scheme gave internship experience to young people.