In April 2016, JIPS held its sixth Profiling Coordination Training (PCT) in Debre Zeit, Ethiopia. The event was organised with support from the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University and, following October 2015’s PCT in Jordan, was the second JIPS regional training.
The training targeted participants in the East Africa region, with a particular focus on operations where an upcoming profiling exercise is planned or being considered. Teams of participants from different countries in the region took part in the training, which integrated working sessions to develop common action plans for implementing learning outcomes in their country contexts.
With a large number of applications, 24 participants were selected including colleagues from operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, and Tanzania. Participants from Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Norway and Switzerland were also included in the cohort due to pressing operational need for profiling coordination capacity building. In addition to some independent consultants, participants came from Asylum Access, the Church World Service, DRC, GIZ, IOM, NRC, UNDP, UNHCR and representatives from governments and statistical offices in Ethiopia, Iraq, Norway and Kenya.
The focus of the PCT on the East Africa region allowed for more targeted discussions on scenarios and examples from within the region, and created the opportunity for knowledge sharing by participants and facilitators.
As with previous PCTs, the training is based in the fictional country of Freedonia, and focuses on a protracted displacement situation, including IDPs, refugees and host communities in a mixture of camp and out-of-camp settings. Over the six-day course, participants are guided through all stages of the profiling process, with a particular focus given to the role of the Profiling Coordinator in each stage.
For more information about upcoming training courses and to read reports from previous ones, please visit our training page.
