CSG - Cultural Sensitivity and Gender (updated)

Quelques heures

Novice

Description du cours

This course elaborates on cultural sensitivity and gender aspects in civil protection. It can be important in different settings - international training courses, exercises, but most importantly in real disaster management missions and operations. The course underlines the necessity to differentiate needs and vulnerabilities of the affected population in a disaster situation.

Public cible

Civil protection experts

Objectifs d'apprentissage

After the completion of this course participants will be able to:

- define culture and cultural sensitivity, bias and understand where it comes from;

- know the general definition of "gender" as well as an introduction to the difference between gender and sex, and differentiated needs and vulnerabilities;

- protection in humanitarian emergencies;

- give practical examples of how CP teams or EUCP Team members can be aware of potential issues and positively contribute to a mission while being aware of and reacting to gender, cultural or protection related scenarios.

Offert par

Ce contenu est offert par la Commission européenne. La Commission européenne est le bras exécutif politiquement indépendant de l'Union européenne. Elle est seule chargée d'élaborer des propositions de nouvelle législation européenne et elle met en œuvre les décisions du Parlement européen et du Cons