Welcome to Human Centered Design Thinking for Humanitarians
Is this course for me? This self-paced e-learning course is intended for individual/staff working in the local, national, and international humanitarian and development space. 
How will I benefit from this course? By completing this full self-paced course, you will be able to:
- Discover Phase: Identifying Community Needs: Identify and reflect on key challenges faced by communities. Learn how to assess vulnerabilities, explore community capacities, and define core problems through empathy and research.
- Design Phase: Developing Human-Centered Solutions: Create and test innovative, tailored solutions. Refine your ability to prototype, gather feedback, and document humanitarian experiences, ensuring solutions are flexible and responsive to community needs.
- Deliver Phase: Scaling and Ensuring Sustainability: Utilize horizontal and vertical scaling, develop resilience strategies, and use monitoring tools to ensure lasting impact and adaptability.
How long will it take? This course should take you around 4 hours to complete.
How much does it cost? This course is free!
Will I get a certificate at the end? Yes - you will be able to download a certificate and a badge after you complete the Learning Content including the course quiz and the Feedback Survey.
How do I start? Scroll to the top of the page and click on the I Agree - Join course button. This will take you through to the course content. You don't need to complete the course in one go - you can always continue later from where you left off.
Data protection and consent- Discover Phase: Identifying Community Needs: Identify and reflect on key challenges faced by communities. Learn how to assess vulnerabilities, explore community capacities, and define core problems through empathy and research.
- Design Phase: Developing Human-Centered Solutions: Create and test innovative, tailored solutions. Refine your ability to prototype, gather feedback, and document humanitarian experiences, ensuring solutions are flexible and responsive to community needs.
- Deliver Phase: Scaling and Ensuring Sustainability: Utilize horizontal and vertical scaling, develop resilience strategies, and use monitoring tools to ensure lasting impact and adaptability.
This course was created and is administered by SomReP/World Vision. By joining this course you are consenting to SomReP/World Vision being given access to your Kaya profile information, including your name and email address, so that they can provide the course. This may require them to contact you. Your data will be anonymised before it is used for any analysis or reporting purposes. If you have any questions about this, please email somrep_learning@wvi.org.