Humanitarian Assistance Technical Support (HATS) Project
Project Description
UMES was approved through United States Agency International Development (USAID) for a five-year (January 2020 – December 2024) cooperative agreement entitled “Humanitarian Assistance Technical Support” (HATS) Project, which is funded from the American people. The purpose of the project is to help address the critical gaps in securing experts with relevant technical capacity to adequately staff some of the technical sectors in fulfilling USAID/Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance’s (BHA) global mandate. In addition, UMES is working towards helping advance the global profile of higher education efforts in the Humanitarian Studies, Analysis or Applications sector, and strengthen the operational integration of humanitarian topics and teaching by working to achieve the following four USAID/BHA objectives:
(1) Provide technical leadership in developing and promoting standards, guidance, and interaction with global flora, the intra-agency, interagency with humanitarian partners, and with university partners to advance best practices in Emergency and Transboundary Outbreak Pests (ETOP) and Shelter &Settlement (S&S);
(2) Provide expert guidance in the Humanitarian Studies, Analysis, or Applications Sector to humanitarian assistance implementing partners;
(3) Improve the capacity of USAID/OFDA partners in best practices in the Humanitarian Studies, Analysis, or Applications sector, and
(4) Provide expert technical inputs to course descriptions, presentations, and other academic requests that the university has specific to the humanitarian studies, analysis, and applications sector.
In response to implementing USAID/BHA objectives, UMES has developed the following four objectives: (USAID/BHA-UMES objectives)
Objective 1: ETOP and S&S advisors will provide technical leadership in developing and promoting standards, guidance, and interaction with global fora, the intra-agency, interagency with humanitarian partners, and with university partners to advance best practices in ETOP, and S&S.
Objective 2: ETOP and S&S advisors will provide expert guidance in the Humanitarian Studies, Analysis, or Applications Sector to humanitarian assistance implementing partner.
Objective 3: ETOP and S&S advisors will improve the capacity of USAID/OFDA partners in best practices in the Humanitarian Studies, Analysis, or Applications sector.
Objective 4: ETOP and S&S advisors will provide expert technical inputs to course descriptions, presentations, and other academic requests that UMES has specific to the Humanitarian Studies, Analysis, or Applications sector.
The UMES’ proposed program activities are consistent with and cover humanitarian studies, analysis, and applications that play a vital role in improving the delivery of humanitarian assistance, which encompasses disaster preparedness, disaster risk reduction, response programming, and humanitarian coordination.
COMING SOON!!!
UMES through the partnership of the Office of International Programs and UMES Schools [School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, School of Business and Technology, School of Education, Social Science, and The Arts] are working to design a Certificate Program ( Post-Baccalaureate Certificate (P.B.C.) Program in
Global Humanitarian Disaster Assistance (GHDA) which will prepare the students for a dynamic career opportunity in disaster and emergency assistance worldwide. Students will be provided with a range of skills that will enable them to identify and plan for emergency disaster management, disaster risk reduction, shelter and settlement response programming, humanitarian assistance coordination, transboundary pest and disease threat, identification, and management.
