Capacity Building
Skills that stay in the response.
Capacity building is the thread through everything CHI does — training people to international standards, embedding those skills locally, and keeping practitioners connected between emergencies.
Train to an international standard
Every CHI curriculum is built on recognised humanitarian standards — Sphere, protection mainstreaming, psychological first aid — and delivered by practitioners who have led real responses. Certification means the same thing wherever you earned it.
Embed skills where they are needed
Capacity that leaves with a consultant isn't capacity. Our programmes train local staff and volunteers inside their own organisations and municipalities, so the skills stay in the response area long after a project closes.
Keep practitioners connected
Working groups keep alumni talking across organisations — reviewing live cases, aligning referral pathways, and running joint exercises between emergencies, not just during them.
Feed the field back into the curriculum
Our research unit tracks what actually works in active programmes. Those findings flow straight back into the next training cycle, so the curriculum never drifts from field reality.
How it works in practice
From a training room to a field programme — and back.
A caseworker takes a protection course in Istanbul. Six months later she's running referral pathways in a field programme we support. The lessons from that programme show up in next year's curriculum, and she comes back — this time in a working group, reviewing cases with peers from four other organisations.
That loop — train, deploy, connect, learn — is what we mean by capacity building. Not one-off workshops, but a system that compounds.
Build capacity with us.
For individuals, teams and whole organisations — start with a training, or talk to us about a tailored programme.