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The Human Development Forum Foundation (HDFF) offers a wide variety of courses that cannot be entirely reflected in this catalog. Therefore, the following course outlines are given to develop training ideas for interested organizations.
HDFF specializes in tailor-made training programs. Examples of previous successful training participants range from the Bangladesh Ministry of Education to a Business Continuity Planning for an Indonesian Telecom corporation and several
Afghan ministries.
HDFF invites all organizations to submit their training and capacity-building needs, so we can jointly develop project and training ideas suitable for your organization. We also provide training outside ASEAN, e.g. in Nepal and Madagascar.
HEAT for (I)NGO, Government, UN organizations and Corporate
Improve your organization’s “Duty of Care” profile through Stay Safe Training
Around the world, humanitarian workers and organizations’ personnel run an ever-greater risk of becoming victims of conflict and violence. It is therefore essential to improve organizations’ understanding of the riskiness of humanitarian
work. Annually, several hundred victims of attacks, and many more encounter life-threatening situations. These include road traffic accidents, ambushes, kidnapping, war/conflict-like zones as well as natural or man-made disasters,
active shooters, terrorism, or petty theft. Based on international practice and jurisprudence
“Duty of Care” is a key obligation for organizations, and includes the need for organizations to provide training to reduce the risk level for humanitarian personnel.
Against this backdrop, HDFF continues to develop up-to-date HEAT courses. Since 2011 these have been successfully conducted with participants working across the globe, from Ghana in West Africa, to Iraq in the Middle East, to
Afghanistan in South Asia, to Myanmar, Thailand, and Indonesia in Southeast Asia, and Japan in East Asia. HDFF currently offers several types of Hostile Environment Awareness Trainings aiming
. To increase the understanding of proactive security attitudes and related mitigation measures,
. To enhance the resilience of personnel when working in hazardous environments,
. To provide personnel with basic tools and techniques needed to avoid or handle adequately endangering or potentially dangerous situations, thus improving the general safety and security awareness for (I)NGOs, Governmental and UN
agencies, media, international civilians, and corporations.
. To increase the respective organizational “Duty of Care” profile as recommended by insurance and foreign services advisories.
All HEAT courses are certified by the Asian Institute for Technology (AIT) with a three-year internationally valid certificate.
HEAT: Hostile Environment Awareness Training (4.5 days)
HDFF’s Flagship Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) is an advanced safety training that addresses primarily implementing personnel but also management and safety-related personnel. HDFF trains employees of
(I)NGOs, media personnel, Governmental and UN agencies, international civilian and corporates’ personnel working, based or traveling into or through so-called “Red Countries” (high-risk level or deemed as such by insurances and foreign
service advisories; high-risk areas of a medium risk country). This HEAT training aims to improve participants’ security awareness and their handling of dangerous situations while in a hostile environment, following international
regulations for those kinds of settings. As this is a chief responsibility for employers, this training contributes to a high “Duty of Care” profile for the organization. The HEAT training will be conducted by experienced and
culturally sensitive trainers in an utmost safe way for participants, taking into consideration a high level of participatory activities and has in its core a three-day scenario-based practical Field Simulation. The only Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) certified HEAT training in Asia.
Objectives:
- To increase the understanding of proactive security and basic field measures taken before, during, and after a mission in a hostile field environment.
- To enhance the resilience of personnel in hazardous environments by knowing how to manage dangerous situations and related stress, e.g. checkpoint behavior, ambush/active shooter, hostile crowds, IED, weapons effects, kidnapping,
rescue by force, First Aid and fire fighting in the field. - To be able to make decisions as team leader and act as a team member in hostile environments and stressful situations as well as manage individual stress situations and understand the basics of PTSD, Moral Injury, and Psychological
First Aid.
Date: [27 – 31 May 2024] [02 – 06 September 2024] [ 18 – 22 November 2024]
Location: Huahin, Thailand Full Board
Cost: Regular Price – $ 3,485 USD
HEAT GENERAL
HEAT Fundamentals (2.5 days)
HDFF’s 2.5-day HEAT Fundamentals course is a safety and security training that addresses basic safety and security knowledge needed by everybody while working or traveling. The training is conducted by internationally experienced and culturally sensitive facilitators in a highly participatory way.
Objectives:
- To be able to assess risks for individuals, teams, programs, and locations.
- To increase situational awareness and related risk management capabilities.
- To be able to understand safety tasks and apply skills to related personnel scope of work and traveling including:
- situational awareness
- risk avoidance
- risk mitigation
Dates: [24 – 26 July 2024] [18 – 20 September 2024]
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Cost: Regular Price – $ 830 USD
Early Bird – $ 720 USD
HEAT Women Safety & Security (2 days)
The two-day HDFF-designed HEAT Women Safety & Security course is a gender-specific workshop aimed at women’s security. It enables female personnel to cope with gender-based security issues and journey security to enable implementing female personnel be able to cope with gender-based security issues and journey security related matters as well as to increase their situational awareness. PTSD / MHPSS will be discussed, as well as weapons effects and active shooter behavior. This will increase the mitigation skills of the participants who then will gain confidence in dealing with aggression incl. violent crimes by using basic self-defense techniques. The aim is to increase the confidence of female staff members during their daily commute and work. Remark: all shared experiences of the participants will stay private.
Objectives:
- To increase the situational awareness of female staff in commute and daily work
- To increase confidence in dealing with challenging situations and matters
- To understand how to cope with aggression and violent crime situations
- To be able to apply basic self-defense techniques in critical situations
Date: TBD
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Cost: Regular Price – $ 600 USD
Early Bird – $ 520 USD
HEAT Travel Security Training (2 days)
The two-day HDFF-designed HEAT Travel Security course aims to enable business and short-mission travelers in low-risk environments to increase their security awareness and improve their security behavior. The participants will also learn how to cope with hotel security-related matters as well as First Aid and trauma care (certified First Aid course with a three-year validity). Briefings on defensive driving, weapons effects and active shooter scenarios will increase the mitigation skills of the participants as well.
Objectives:
- To increase the security awareness of traveling personnel during travels and in hotel environments.
- To increase consciousness related to Defensive Driving.
- To understand how to behave in active shooter situations.
- To be able to apply basic First Aid and trauma care techniques in critical situations.
Date: [24-25 October 2024]
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Cost: Regular Price – $ 660 USD
Early Bird – $ 570 USD
HEAT fundamentals (Week) (4X 1 day)
The environments in which humanitarian and development organizations and corporates work are continually changing. As a result, there is a growing demand for specific safety and security skill-building for implementing personnel as well as business or mission-oriented travelers.
Experts and trainers of HDFF are aware of the differing demands, with some security and program management looking to pick and choose topics, while others want the opportunity to refresh their knowledge. In order to meet this need, HDFF designed a HEAT Fundamentals Week consisting of four separate “one-day events” on key safety and security issues relevant to general staff and travelers.
HDFF encourages you to pick and choose your own schedule based on your interests and needs.
Who should attend?
- Every traveling staff of a business or organization
- Safety and Security related NGO personnel
- NGO HR and administrative personnel
- Interested general public
What is included in the separate programs?
Day 1 – Leadership in Crisis: Security Risk Assessment: Are you able to conduct a basic safety and security assessment for programs and locations? In this session, you will learn to identify risks and threats to your personnel and organization. The aim is for participants to adopt basic risk assessment techniques which allows everyone to identify fast and efficient risks and conduct a threat analysis for daily work.
Day 2 – First Aid at the Office and in the Field
This certified First Aid workshop will include the latest international guidelines & protocols for CPR & First Aid. Program contents include:
1) How & when to activate the local EMS (Emergency Medical Service) including “Scene Safety Assessment”.
2) Barrier use while administrating First Aid.
3) Primary assessment & recovery position.
4) One person rescuer Adult Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).
5) Primary Care Skills – conscious choking skills, bleeding injury management, shock management, spinal injury management.
Additionally:
- Severe Bleeding & Hemorrhage control
- Causes: accidents, injuries, medications and illnesses symptoms, blood discharge (wounds, mouth, ears) & bruising
- Management of suspected spinal cord injuries
- Shock management & prevention
- Treatment: Emergency First Aid for Trauma; Professional Consultation; Reasons to consult Medical Professionals
- What to Avoid: General guidelines for the treatment of severe injuries and traumas
- Environmental screening
Day 3 – Evacuation Planning and Fire Fighting
Worldwide security incidents related to political unrest are often closely connected to fire and can result in injuries and even in casualties. In case of political turmoil or safety incidents like big fires, do you know how to evacuate your staff? Did you ever draft an evacuation plan? For small fires, do you know how to use a fire extinguisher? This training day is designed to teach evacuation planning and a practical hands-on fire extinguisher drill.
Day 4 – Incident Management/ Incident Reporting & Communication in Crisis
Internal reporting and external communication are key elements of general personnel’s work. But do you know how to report a safety/ security incident properly? Do you know how to make a short statement to the press while in a crisis? Practical exercises and simple guidelines will help general personnel to handle these challenges appropriately.
All sessions will be facilitated by a combination of HDFF trainers, as well as key professionals in the security and humanitarian sector. Participants are welcome to attend as many sessions as they like, reflecting their own or their organization’s needs.
Cost: 160 US$ / per day
Multiple booking discounts:
Book 2 days: $ 290 USD
Book 3 days: $ 430 USD
Book 4 days: $ 560 USD
These discounts apply to individuals booking different courses throughout the week.
The fee includes all training materials, refreshments, and lunch. To participants attending all four courses during the week, an additional AIT certificate will be awarded.
Date: [10 – 13 December 2024]
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
HEAT DEPLOYMENT
HEAT Urban Survival (2.5 days)
HDFF’s Stay Safe Training (SST) Urban Survival is a basic safety training addressing primarily implementing personnel but also short-term mission/business travelers, management personnel, safety needs of (I)NGOs, media, governmental and UN organizations personnel, international civilian and corporate personnel, based or traveling into or through so-called “Yellow or Green Countries” (medium or low-risk level countries or deemed as such by insurances and/or foreign service advisories). The training aims to increase participants’ safety and security awareness as well as related “urban jungle survival” skills in hostile travel and/or urban working environments. The training is useful for all employees of organizations with field operations or intensive business travel. The “SST Urban Survival” training will be conducted by experienced and culturally sensitive trainers in an utmost safe way for participants and a high level of participatory activities and include practical simulations.
Objectives:
- To develop an urban environment survival mindset that increases proactive and reactive response capabilities in unknown or turned hostile travel and urban work environments
- To develop awareness in coping with danger on the move and in urban environments and situational awareness including theft, fraud, and dealing with scams, journey planning, and management, hotel accommodation security, dealing with aggression and violent crime including “Blitz Abduction”, stress management, active self-defense incl. gender-based security, active shooter, evacuation and firefighting.
- To understand and utilize practical tips to protect yourself during travel and in urban working environments
Date: [14 – 16 August 2024]
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Cost: Regular Price – $ 1,100 USD
Early Bird – $ 950 USD
HEAT Field Travel Survival (3 days)
HDFF’s HEAT Field Travel Survival is a basic safety training addressing implementing personnel but also short-term mission travelers safety needs of (I)NGOs, Governmental and UN organizations, international civilian and corporations working, based or traveling into or through so-called “Yellow or Green Countries” (medium or low-risk level countries or deemed as such by insurances and/or foreign service advisories). The training aims to increase participants’ security awareness and survival mindset in unknown and potentially hostile situations of travel or field-based working environments. The training will be conducted by experienced and culturally sensitive trainers in the safest way. The training includes a high level of participatory activities and practical simulations.
Objectives:
- To enhance the resilience of personnel by developing a field travel and working survival mindset that increases proactive and responsive capabilities in unknown or potentially hostile travel and fieldwork environments.
- To develop ideas in coping with dangers on the move, in field locations and vicinities as well as related stress levels, e.g. vehicle familiarization, first-aid, pre-travel planning and journey management, orientation (e.g. compass, maps), checkpoint behavior, coping with stress, handling an impaired vehicle survival in the field, firefighting in the field, and evacuation.
- To develop and maintain security awareness and survival mindset, and develop confidence in individual capabilities when coping with challenging situations.
Date: [16 – 18 October 2024]
Location: Hua Hin, Thailand
includes accommodation & transport
Costs: Regular Price – $ 1,875 USD
Early Bird – $ 1,695 USD
HEAT Skills: Hostage Incident Management (HIM) (2 days)
The two-day HDFF-designed HEAT Skills “Hostage Incident Management (HIM)” is a course aiming to give participants a profound overview on hostage situations, both from the hostage side and management side. This intensive training includes scenario-based management parts, practical parts as well as media management in hostage situations. Case studies are based on the personal experiences of the trainer who was a hostage negotiator and shares rich experiences. HIM’s Training follows international standards to manage this kind of incidents.
Objectives:
. To raise awareness for hostage prevention measures.
. To highlight the importance of the “Golden Hour” from the victim’s and management’s side.
. To introduce media management in hostage incidents
. Highlight the benefits of a clear hostage incident management policy
Date: [26 – 27 June 2024]
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Cost: Regular Price – $ 700 USD
Early Bird – $ 600 USD
HEAT Skills: Psychological First Aid/PFA (2 days)
HDFF’s 2-day HEAT Psychological First Aid is a long-needed course for enabling first responders or First Person on the Scene (FPS) to help psychologically challenged victims. This course addresses topics like PFA- skills and techniques, PFA practical topics, PFA as an important tool for reducing primary stress factors needed by every team member deployed in the field. The training is conducted by internationally experienced and culturally sensitive facilitators in an utmost participatory way.
Objectives:
- To facilitate participants’ understanding of Psychological First Aid in the context of crisis situations
- To train basic principles and skills of using Psychological First Aid in challenging situations.
Date: [21 – 22 October 2024]
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Cost: Regular Price – $ 795 USD
Early Bird – $ 720 USD
HEAT Skills: Negotiation in Crisis (2 days)
HDFF’s 2-day HEAT Skills: Negotiation in Crisis is an urgently needed course for enabling field personnel and their leaders to be able to implement their missions. This course, needed by every personnel deployed on the field, addresses topics such as negotiations facing government officials to obtain permission papers, negotiations for pricing of supplies, negotiations for medical assistance in challenging situations, and understanding situations where negotiations are not an option. The training is conducted by internationally experienced and culturally sensitive facilitators in an utmost participatory and mostly scenario-based approach.
Objectives:
- To facilitate participants’ understanding of negotiations in challenging situations.
- To increase the understanding of limitations of negotiation skills depending on various situations.
- To train basic principles and skills of negotiations in different settings.
Date: [27 – 28 August 2024]
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Cost: Regular Price – $ 730 USD
Early Bird – $ 650 USD