1. Using Digital Badging to Recognise Humanitarian Skills
& Experience

2. 1
HPass is a new platform dedicated to humanitarian professional
development, promoting
• Quality
• Consistency, and
• Transparency
In the way that humanitarians are trained, assessed and
recognised for their achievements.
Supporting and Strengthening Humanitarians
Everywhere

3. 2
Humanitarians are time-poor and
the nature of their work means
that learning is often through
practical experience as well as
formal courses & assessments
Recruitment & deployment processes conducted at
speed require HR & roster managers to be able to
make important decisions quickly about each
candidate’s suitability
Learning on-the-job
Rapid deployment
HPass promotes a system of recognising humanitarians’ skills and experience, reflecting challenges
specific to the humanitarian sector…
Movement
Humanitarians move frequently
between locations and organisations,
and need evidence of their skills and
experience which is recognisable and
verifiable across borders

4. 3
We estimate there are over ~16MM volunteers and ~1.25MM workers involved in humanitarian
action globally.
Humanitarian Action includes development and humanitarian aid. Humanitarian aid is emergency response and disaster relief only.
Note: Numbers as of 2016. 1. Excludes HQ staff and other paid staff not on the frontlines/ field. 2. Assumes humanitarian aid is ~1/3 of all global aid going towards humanitarian action.
Informed by ELRHA which estimates around 35% of all aid workers are humanitarian aid workers. 3. Cumulative number of learners reached since 2010. 4. Both estimates since 2010.
“Learners” includes those being assessed. 5. Exact estimate closer to 3.8MM volunteers. Estimated from the 61 National Societies which launched a disaster response emergency relief
operation or emergency appeal during 2016. Sources: State of the Humanitarian System, 2015 (ALNAP); Everyone Counts, 2018 (IFRC); Humanitarian Professionalization – A Scoping
Study, 2011 (ELRHA), INGO Annual Reports
~1.25MM
Paid Frontline
Personnel in
Humanitarian Action
~425K
Of which, paid
workers in
Humanitarian Aid2
~16MM+
Volunteers in
Humanitarian Action
among Top 5 INGOs1
INTERNATIONAL
FEDERATION

5. 4
Humanitarian OrganisationsHumanitarians
“I want to plan my development,
ensure I’m investing in quality
learning, and network with
potential employers”
Workers or volunteers in
humanitarian action including
development, peace building, and
emergency relief operations
HPass services target humanitarians, and the organisations that
must prepare them for response
“I want to find and develop
individuals to enable better
humanitarian action.”
Recruiters or line managers
responsible for identifying
needed skill-sets and sourcing
required talent. This includes
“I want to ensure my offer is high
quality and signal this to
potential learners”
Providers of courses, credentials,
or assessments. This could include
employers acting in their capacity
as workforce developers

6. HPass -the story so far

7. HPass History
2011 - 2015
Research &
engagement
- 2000 individuals
- 34 partners
- 38 countries
2016 - 2017
Development of
digital badging
offer, & Quality
Standards
- 400 organisations
consulted
2018
Pilot
-34 organisations
trial Quality
Standards or badges
2019
Roll-out!
-26 organisations
signed up to digital
badging so far

8. HPass in 2019

9. 8
Steps towards ‘critical
mass’
 26 organisations
 Sponsored licences for
12 months

10. 9
Tailored support, web clinics & guidance materials

11. Some examples of how organisations are using HPass in practice…
World Vision
• Completion of course content offered by
World Vision and a range of external
partners
• Surge team eligibility
PHAP
• Completion of a rigorous online assessment
in an area of technical expertise
International Federation of the Red Cross
• Participation in organisational ‘Learn to
Change’ network
• Recognition of escalating levels of
commitment, forming a pathway
Oxfam
• Course completion
• Self-identification as reporting champions
through use in e-signatures
Humanitarian U
• Completion of 4 courses with
accompanying online tests
• Agreement to maintain certification by
completing 48 continuing professional
development credits every two years
Institut Bioforce
• Completion of face-to face courses

12. Case Study 1: War Child
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13. Case Study 2: Save the Children

14. Case study 3: Humanitarian Leadership Academy
Safeguarding Essentials

15. myHPass Platform Updates
• New dashboard
• New profile feature
• Login pages from the website – badge factory & myHPass
• Public availability of badge catalogue
• 2000+ individual users
• 4000+ badges on myHPass

16. HPass communications - https://hpass.org/
 New website, including myHPass login
 Social media presence -Linkedin &
Twitter
 HPass leaflets & digital badging
infographic
 Promotion through Kaya website

17. What’s next for 2020?

18. 17
#1:Build our individual user base
 4,500 individual users on
myHPass
 10,000 followers across
all platforms

19. 18
Raising awareness of your digital badges among users
1. User Guidance 2. Social media

20. 19
Raising awareness of your digital badges among users
NEW – Videos!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtDJZwq19NAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgvS0KJD2wE

21. 20
#2 Continue to work with our organisational
users
 35 organisations by end of year
 New groups such as universities
& local orgs
 Opportunities for organisations
to collaborate to create
commonly recognized badges

22. 21
#3 Offering new functionality and evolving
the HPass offer in response to feedback
 Mobile app – coming in
Spring
 Badge analytics &
reporting

23. 22
#4 Support more organisations to take up the
Quality Standards
 Webinars
 Online course
 Conferences
 Workshops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23uWrDYJAAg

24. Thanks! Questions?