We are the Humanitarian Leadership Academy.
Our mission is to enable people to prepare for and respond to crises in their own countries, by providing high quality learning opportunities.
Our vision is a world where everyone has the capabilities to handle crises, ultimately saving lives.
We strongly believe that locally-led action is of fundamental importance and an opportunity to more effectively meet humanitarian needs. We recognise the critical role of local actors as both first responders in a crisis and the providers of long-term support.
Our trainings and programmes are tailored to strengthen the capacity of local actors, enhance their skill set and empower them to circulate learning to a wider audience. Through collaboration and partnerships, we share our knowledge and build networks across the humanitarian sector and beyond.
Our learning is currently reaching over 800,000 individuals and 1.2 million people on social media creating sustainable and transformative impact to local communities across the world.
Why the Humanitarian Xchange
Crisis is an everyone problem and change doesn’t happen by staying still. That’s why we decided to launch the Humanitarian Xchange. It is a platform for the next generation of humanitarians to be heard, to share, to collaborate and learn.
From solid foundations, the Humanitarian Xchange offers a new opportunity to create a more agile and resilient response to the world's crises. So that we can all move forward.
What We Offer Humanitarians
Our award-winning, online learning platform Kaya offers over 500 free online courses for humanitarians, covering everything from disaster risk reduction, to coaching and mentoring, to psychological first aid for children.
Through our accreditation platform HPass, we create digital badges and issue them to learners to recognise they have completed specific courses or assessments. This motivates staff to accelerate their learning and professional development – ultimately improving the quality and effectiveness of the humanitarian sector.
Supporting Humanitarian Responses
Through our reactive capacity strengthening offer we share our expertise, supporting humanitarians during emergencies, when they are at full stretch. We help ensure effectiveness at every stage for affected populations, from start-up phases which need rapid action, to longer term capacity strengthening.