RedR Australia

Final spots available for this month’s Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) in Australia!

📅 17-21 June 2026
📍 Mount Macedon, Victoria

Register here-https: https://training.redr.org.au/w/au/courses/2-hostile-environment-awareness-training-australia/53

Our HEAT course is a MUST for people wanting to better prepare themselves for being safe in challenging field deployments in crisis zones or a range of hostile situations.

Discover more here: https://training.redr.org.au/w/au/courses/2-hostile-environment-awareness-training-australia

With infectious diseases threatening global health systems — your donation this Australian EOFY can support RedR Australia to train and deploy our expert roster members.

Aimé is an Australian citizen, born in Burundi, and through RedR Australia he has been able to deploy twice to his motherland — most recently with International Organization for Migration (IOM) helping prevent the spread of highly infectious diseases such as Mpox, Marburg and Ebola.

Aimé's deep humanitarian experience as an Emergency Public Health Officer has enabled him to use both his lived and career experience supporting communities burdened with compounded crises.

“Going back there and working as a senior humanitarian — it’s a good feeling. And it's a good feeling because I’ve learned so much from other parts of the world, particularly in the Asia–Pacific, but also the Middle East and other countries in Africa," said Aimé.

Your donation today can directly help us support the growing number of communities in crisis, including those under threat from fast spreading viral diseases — with deployees from their region.

Donate here: https://www.redr.org.au/about-us/support-us

That's a wrap on last week's Essentials of Humanitarian Practice (EHP) course at Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne!

Pictured here, RedR Australia CEO and experienced leader in the humanitarian sector, Dr Helen Durham, welcoming participants and wishing them a rewarding training course - as well as Dr Joshua Hallwright, course coordinator and our Director of Training and Strategy.

During the course, our enthusiastic group of participants pictured - including RedR Australia staff, a board member, partners and future humanitarians, discovered all about working within the modern humanitarian system and what it takes to respond to an international humanitarian crisis that involves a global response.

Go here to book your EHP course in Australia, Fiji or Jordan: https://training.redr.org.au/w/me/

🔈 AI FOR HUMANITARIANS COURSE

In the fast-moving age of artificial intelligence (AI) - this facilitated online course, developed by RedR UK and RedR Australia, helps humanitarian professionals understand and critically engage with AI in their work.

It explores the benefits, challenges, and risks of AI in the sector, grounded in humanitarian principles.

Not focusing on specific tools - the course provides a strong foundation for informed and responsible use of AI. Learners can then use this as a foundation on which to build more advanced skills.

📚 Course format: 4 highly interactive online sessions (2 hours each) - with 1 hour of pre-reading per class

📅 5-26 August 2026, Wednesdays 5-7pm (AEST / UTC+10)

$500 AUD | Register: https://training.redr.org.au/w/au/courses/10-ai-for-humanitarians/85

This Australian End of Financial Year - support us to select, train and deploy even more experts - like RedR Australia roster member, Rebeca.

While the scale and focus have differed in Rebeca’s most recent deployments to Timor-Leste and then Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh - both roles are connected by a common objective: protecting public health.

“...both roles require navigating complexity and uncertainty. What remains consistent is the reward of seeing how coordinated efforts, whether at the community or system level, contribute to meaningful public health outcomes.”

In a year that has already seen intensifying crises across the globe – your donation today directly helps us to support the growing number of communities in crisis.

Donate here: https://www.redr.org.au/about-us/support-us/

🔈LAST CHANCE to book your spot at our 7-10 June HEAT course in Jordan!

If you're in or near Amman, Jordan - don't miss your chance to join our world-class Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) course.

HEAT – Jordan
📅 7-10 June 2026
📍 Amman
Register: https://training.redr.org.au/w/me/courses/4-hostile-environment-awareness-training-jordan/54

RedR Australia are committed to making our courses practical and impactful.

✅ HEAT better prepares you for being safe in challenging field deployments. It can also inform planning and program design for challenging humanitarian and development contexts.

Need your staff to understand the essentials of working within the humanitarian system?

Then be like the Tonga National Disaster Risk Management Office (NDRMO).

This week we are running an Essentials of Humanitarian Practice (EHP) course with 28 participants from NDRMO with content tailored to the organisation’s specific needs.

Funded by Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade post Tonga, our highly experienced and expert trainers Dr Joshua Hallwright, Talei Tora and Vuli Gauna are focused on better equipping participants with the skills and knowledge needed to be systems informed and field ready.

Through a mix of classroom style learning and simulation, participants will learn what it takes to respond to an international humanitarian crisis during a multinational response.

Reach out to discuss your organisation’s training needs: [email protected]

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In a year that has already seen intensifying conflict and political instability, as well as compounding climate-related disasters and disease outbreaks across the globe – your donation today is critically important.

You can support us to train and deploy deeply experienced humanitarian professionals like RedR Australia Roster member, Tai-Ring. From the Solomon Islands to Rwanda, from Nepal to South Sudan and beyond—Tai-Ring has used his engineering skills to help communities gain or regain access to safe water and improved sanitation.

"In Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Bangladesh or Rwanda, my skills are extremely valuable for water supply—like how to repair a water treatment plant, and how to rebuild or create a new water system," shares Tai-Ring.

"And when safe water is available back in the community, you can see the community relax and that normality means the recovery will be ongoing. That's a really good outcome."

This Australian EOFY, help us train and deploy even more experts to support communities in crisis around the world.

Donate here: https://www.redr.org.au/about-us/support-us/

A critical topic right now for investors and humanitarians – don't miss this panel discussion featuring RedR Australia CEO Dr Helen Durham AO at the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) Conference on 28 May.

The panel will explore defence-related exclusions and ethical investing.

📅 Thursday 28 May 2026
⏱️1.10pm AEST
📍 Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC) and online

Learn more about the session: https://www.responsibleinvestment.org/events-news/conference/session/investing-in-defence-ethics-fiduciary-duty-and-hard-choices
Register and secure your spot today: https://www.responsibleinvestment.org/events-news/conference/australia/2026