About the Course
This course aims to give practical guidance in order to implement security management that allows effective operations at project level.
This course is in the FC Learning Path after the self-learning online course on Basics of Context Analysis. Therefore, before doing the course on security management, please ensure you have completed that other course.
This course on Security Management should also be done before the blended courses for Field Coordinators, Advanced Humanitarian Negotiations and Scenario Building for Security Management.
This training is based in the module of Security Management in the OCBA Operations Manual.
Target Audience
This course is directed at all MSF OCBA Field Coordinators and all staff that is on the way to get validated as FieldCo. However, other staff could also access it.
Duration
15h
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Do Risk Analysis together with the project team
Translate the Risk Analysis into Acceptance actions, SOPs and CPs
Have key concepts to manage and analyze incidents
Ensure that Security Plan is not the end of the security management, as implementation and permanent analysis and decision-making is essential
List of Contents
Module 1. Introduction to security management
Module 2. Risk assessment
Module 3. Risk reduction I: Acceptance
Module 4. Risk reduction II: SOPs and CPs
Module 5. Incident management
Module 6. Field security plan
Methodology
This course combines asynchronous activities, using videos, texts and infographics. Most of these materials can be downloadable for study and use offline.
Evaluation and Certification
Participants completing the asynchronous activities will receive a badge.
The course certificate is only available for OCBA FieldCos. To achieve it, they need to successfully complete all the modules’ assignments (five in total) and participate in at least one of the monthly webinars.
To know the criteria to pass the assignments, consult their evaluation rubrics.
Enrolment
This course will be proposed to current and future OCBA Field Coordinators. Other staff needing access should contact isaac.alcalde@barcelona.msf.org
Release & Update
The course was launched on June 2023. However it will be continuously improved.
OC Validation
This course is developed and validated by OCBA.
Technical Considerations
The course is best completed on a computer, laptop or tablet. However, this can also be possible on a mobile phone if the screen size is large enough.