These are the people
who have facilitated a Sphere Training of Trainers (Listed in alphabetical
order):
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Rory Downham
downham@club-internet.fr
is currently the Director of Training for Bioforce Développement,
a French training centre for international aid workers (Lyon,
France). He is able to train in English and French, has conversation
skills in Spanish and Russian, and has a Masters degree in adult
training. He is a UK citizen living in France and is married
with 3 children. Rory has been involved with the Sphere Project
since May 2000 when he participated in the first Sphere Training
of Trainers (ToT) course. He has conducted two Sphere trainings
(with Caritas in Luxembourg and in Cameroon) and two ToTs (with
Oxfam in Kenya and the first Sphere Project French ToT in Morocco).
Previous client: Mr. Nik Bredholt, Caritas Internationalis bredholt@caritas.va
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Jim Good
good@interworksmadison.com
is an international disaster management consultant with the
firm InterWorks. He designs and facilitates a wide range of
disaster and emergency -related trainings, field exercises,
and table top simulations in emergency assessment, logistics
operations, and operational coordination of international disaster
response. He is a citizen of the United States, and can conduct
training and facilitation in English. He also has conversational
skills in Russian and Visayan (central Philippines). He has
participated in Sphere Training of Trainers (ToT) workshops
as a resource and trainer, and has designed many of the Sphere
training sessions and materials now available on the Sphere
website. Jim is currently developing an intensive 5-day technical
course on the practical use of the Sphere indicators in humanitarian
fieldwork with the University of Wisconsin - Disaster Management
Center. He has participated in Sphere trainings in the last
two years in Jakarta, Indonesia (for Save the Children), Portland,
Oregon, US, (for Mercy Corps), Peshawar, Pakistan (for the International
Rescue Committee), Tokyo, Japan (for Refugee Headquarters),
Washington DC, US (for the Sphere Project) and Geneva, Switzerland
(for the Sphere Project). Previous client: Bernie Doyle, UNHCR
- DOYLE@unhcr.ch
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Emma Jowett ejowett@mistral.co.uk
has been working as an independent training specialist for thirteen
years. Her area of speciality is designing strategies for learning
within organisations and developing training programmes and
materials for both private and humanitarian organisations. Emma
is a UK citizen, works in English and has been involved with
Sphere Project Training since 1999. She has worked on three
of the Sphere Project Training of Trainers courses, consulted
on the system to be used in the training programme, conducted
interagency Sphere workshops in Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, is
a principle author of training module 2, and is the editor of
all the training modules. Previous client: Aimee Wielechowski,
UN-OCHA - wielechowski@un.org
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Christophe Lanord
visit http:www.lanord.com
is an independent consultant on humanitarian issues,
specialised in training and development of training
tools. French national, married with two children, he
is able to work in French and English. He has a Ph.D
in Law and is a former legal officer with the IFRC,
dealing with legal advice to operations, questions related
to statutory meetings and international humanitarian
law. In 1989 he founded the Jean-Pictet IHL competition
and is its annual organiser. He participated in a Training
of Trainers (ToT) in Geneva in April 2001; in the past
years, he facilitated or co-facilitated Sphere sessions,
workshops and Training of Trainers in Cameroun, Chad,
France, India, Kenya, Rwanda, Pakistan and Switzerland,
for Care, IFRC, IRC, Oxfam, Save the Children, Sphere,
Sphere India. Previous client: Christophe Legrand, Country
Director, Care Canada (
).
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Sean Lowrie (info@seanlowrie.com)
is a UK resident and Canadian citizen who has been working in
the humanitarian assistance sector since 1990. His experience
includes operational work in complex emergencies in Africa with
national and international NGOs, and co-ordination responsibilities
at an NGO headquarters. In 1999 Sean joined the Sphere Project
as its Training Manager, and over four years developed, recruited
and produced the concepts, people and materials that comprise
"Sphere Training". During this time, Sean delivered
Sphere training workshops in English and French in Africa, Asia,
Europe and North America. He also acted as the lead trainer
in seven of the ToT courses. Sean is now an independent consultant
specialising in learning in the humanitarian community. This
includes training workshops on co-ordination and information
management, facilitation of strategic planning and retreats,
organisational peer review processes and policy research. He
works with NGOs, UN agencies, academic institutions and donors.
Previous client: UN-OCHA (Tatiana Garakani - garakani@un.org)
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Luis Morago
LMorago@actionaid.org.uk
; morago65@yahoo.co.uk
Luis Morago-Nicolas works for ActionAid's Emergencies Unit as
a Policy Division Rights Advisor. He has facilitated a series
of field-based training programmes on rights in Africa (Uganda
and Sierra Leone) and Asia (India). Building on such experiences,
last year he completed a set of learning modules for aid practitioners:
"Learning about Rights". He is currently working on
the design of learning materials and the implementation of training
programmes on rights and humanitarian standards in emergencies.
A Spanish national, and a practising lawyer in Spain, Luis can
deliver training in Spanish, Italian and English. He has been
involved with Sphere Project training since 2001, as a contributor
to training module 2, as a trainer in the Interagency workshop
in Honduras and as part of the team in the Peru Training of
Trainers. Previous client: Marilise Turnbul MTurnbull@oxfam.org.uk
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Mark Prasopa-Plaizier m.prasopa-plaizier@pgrad.uni.melb.edu.au
is an Australian independent consultant on humanitarian issues,
based from Melbourne University Law School who trains in English.
Most recently he has worked as a Sphere Advisor for Oxfam Great
Britain in Aceh. For three years he was Humanitarian Training
Manager, Registered Engineers for Disasters Relief (RedR) Australia.
For six years he was Oxfam Australia's Emergency Manager heading
their global humanitarian program. In 1991-92 Mark was the Executive
Secretary of the Committee for Coordination of Services for
Displaced Persons in Thailand (CCSDPT), the peak body of humanitarian
NGOs in Thailand, working with displaced Cambodian, Lao, Vietnamese
and Burmese. Mark's first contact with refugee work and conflict
was as a photojournalist in Indochina in the late eighties.
SPHERE training, since 2001 - Sphere Introduction courses in
Australia; UNHCR (Nagoya); RedR (Australia, Asia, Pacific);
Sphere TOT, Australia, 2002; RedR TOT in Sphere, Thailand, 2004;
NGO, UN and Government. Sphere training (Aceh, Indonesia), 2005.
Previous client: Christine Vincent, RedR Australia, cvincent@redr.org.au
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Sylvie Robert sylvierobert@hotmail.com
is an independent consultant, specialising in project cycle
management, evaluation and organisational learning. She is a
French national and able to deliver training in French and English.
She also has conversational skills in Spanish. Her field experience
is with complex emergencies in the Balkans, the Great Lakes
of Africa and Central America, and she has conducted numerous
evaluations and organisational learning projects. Involved with
Sphere training since 1999, Sylvie is one of the principle authors
of Module 3. She has conducted two Training of Trainers, including
the coordination of the French-speaking Sphere ToT in Morocco,
and the Zimbabwe interagency workshop with Save The Children.
She has also facilitated Sphere trainings for Oxfam UK in Senegal,
CRS in Congo Brazzaville and WFP in DRC and Burundi. Recently
she has been involved with the American Red Cross and the Macedonian
Red Cross in organising and co-facilitating 14 Training of Trainers
and workshops in Macedonia. Previous client: Zavi Brees-Saunders,
American Red Cross, zavib@hotmail.com
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Juan Antonio Sáenz
juan@saenz.net
Is a citizen of Mexico and the US and has 20 years of experience
in the humanitarian field. Past experiences includes various
positions with national and international humanitarian organizations
working at country, regional and headquarter levels. Since 1999
he has been working as an independent consultant specialising
in design, evaluation and review of humanitarian programmes,
as well as professional facilitation and humanitarian training.
His portfolio includes advice to organisations on how to institutionalise
and implement Sphere at global, national or programme level.
He can train in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Since 1999
he has facilitated interagency and single agency Sphere workshops
in Spanish and English in over 15 countries in Africa, North
America, Asia and Europe; Juan also facilitated 5 of the nine
Sphere ToT workshops, and was the lead trainer for the Sphere
in India ToT. He is a key author of the 2004 Sphere training
materials. Previous clients include: Sphere in India, V.P. Krishnan
pvkrish@sphereindia.org; or Oxfam GB, Iñigo Cristobal,
icristobal@oxfam.org.ni
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Ana Urgoiti anaurar@yahoo.es
; aitoryana@jazzfree.com
Is an independant consultant working on humanitarian and development
issues. Her areas of specialization are planning (project cycle
management, strategic planning), evaluation, gender, organizational
change/development and adult learning/training. Past experience
includes field work in South and Central America with the International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and positions
at branches and headquarter level with the Spanish Red Cross.
Ana became involved with Sphere in 1999, through incorporating
the subject into Red Cross training events and various university-level
postgraduate courses in Spain, relating to humanitarian action.
Since then, she has facilitated interagency and single agency
Sphere workshops, both in Europe and the Americas. She also
facilitated the 2002 Sphere Project ToT Workshop in Peru. Most
recently she facilitated a ToT Workshop in Serbia organized
by the Regional Delegation of the IFRC. Ana is able to train
in Spanish, French and English. Previous client: Oxfam GB-Peru,
Ana Maria Rebaza, mail: ARebaza@oxfam.org.uk
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