This course is designed to prepare you for threats in particularly risky regions.

You will learn how to assess dangers and threats in your partner country realistically and know how to behave adequately in risky situations. Furthermore, you will realise how to reduce risks to your projects, programmes, and partner organisations by displaying appropriate behaviour.

You will learn:

• Risk and security analysis
• Risk prevention: Security at home/in the hotel, behaviour in critical situations such as check points/demonstrations, mine awareness
• Possible courses of action in violent and critical situations: how to behave when under fire, robbery, sudden kidnappings, being held hostage, natural disasters
• First aid in cases of life-threatening injuries
• Dealing with stress due to dangerous situations

This training includes numerous scenarios and exercises in which you can try out and reflect upon your behavioural patterns.

Our interdisciplinary trainer pool consists of security experts, psychologists, mediators, coaches as well as trainers experienced in civil conflict management.

This offer is part of the Skills4Abroad programme. The content is not specific to GIZ.​

Please note that the whole course will take place at an external training facility (IBZ Schloss Gimborn, Schlossstraße 10, 51709 Marienheide). Childcare and accommodation for non-participating persons is not available at IBZ Schloss Gimborn.

The course unit on “first aid in critical situations” does not substitute a first-aid course which you may know, for example, in preparing for your drivers license. Shouldn't you in the last couple of years or even never before have taken part in a first-aid training, then we strongly recommend doing this before the start of this course.

We recommend combining this training with the course "Dealing with stress and trauma". For a deeper understanding of the topic of sexualised violence we recommend the course "Unmasking power: understanding and acting against sexual harassment and sexism".