Q28: How can the course objectives support you in performing your current role? *
After completion of the UN-CMCoord Course, course participants are able to: a. Define the concept of humanitarian civil-military coordination (UN-CMCoord) and outline the key principles of UN-CMCoord; b. Describe in their own words the purpose and key messages of the 4 global civil-military coordination guidelines; c. Describe the role and responsibilities of OCHA in the context of UN-CMCoord preparedness and response; d. Assess the UN-CMCoord environment from their organization’s perspective: mapping the actors, identifying the main coordination/liaison structures, and determining the scope of humanitarian civil-military relations in natural disasters and complex emergencies preparedness and response; and, e. Describe main civil-military coordination issues and explain possible approaches to address them (e.g. military support to humanitarian response, use of foreign military assets (FMA) and foreign military and civil defence assets (MCDA), security and use of armed escorts).