Our 2025 humanitarian open training courses at a glance
Find the humanitarian training course that's right for you! The Bioforce team is delighted to present its 2025 training offer: more than 130 sessions, in 11 countries and by distance learning!
The Principality of Monaco and Bioforce launch the "Initiatives Sahel" call for projects
The Government of the Principality of Monaco (Department of International Cooperation) and Bioforce Afrique are today launching the “Initiatives-Sahel” call for projects to support civil society initiatives in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal.
SOHP: PROFESSIONALISATION, A GUARANTEE OF THE QUALITY OF HUMANITARIAN AID
Download the full report. Analysis and synthesis of interviews of key informants, survey, 11 local workshops in 10 countries, additional study on the impact of covid-19 on humanitarian professions, and recommendations from the conference on professionalisation in the humanitarian sector.
With all of our interventions, we are creating a sustainable and recognized capacity to respond to humanitarian crises. This is our contribution to ever more relevant humanitarian action.
Building the capacity of organisations working in crisis zones
In Nigeria, one of the pilot countries for localisation, Bioforce conducted a needs assessment on partnerships strengthening between international and Nigerian NGOs.
Building the capacity of organisations working in crisis zones
The Middle East is contending with humanitarian needs on a huge scale due to deep-seated conflict, chronic shortages of water, the impact of climate change, etc. Bioforce has been working in Jordan, the nerve centre of humanitarian operations in this region, to create, develop and build the capacity of all the humanitarian stakeholders here so they can address the populations’ needs. Discover how.
Building the capacity of organisations working in crisis zones
In the Central African Republic, Biofroce operates on several fronts: with civil society organisations working with vulnerable communities, with national public institutions, but also with staff posted from international organisations.
Building the capacity of organisations working in crisis zones
In association with the Ministry of Health, an international agency and NGOs, Bioforce has been working in the country for many years helping to strengthen the public health system.
Building the capacity of organisations working in crisis zones
In over two years spent working in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bioforce was able to develop a major part of its strategy to build the capacity of local organisations and institutions.
In 2014, Guinea was hit with the full force of the Ebola epidemic, in a context where 47% of people live beneath the poverty line. In total, over 11,000 deaths were officially registered as well as over 10,000 survivors with permanent after-effects. The battle against this virus helped gradually reduce transmission and since 2015 the country has managed to limit it to low-level outbreaks. Maintaining a high level of monitoring is still required, especially as the country is regularly confronted with a large number of epidemics.
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FORMASAN: structuring a sustainable training offer to better respond to health crises
National prevention and response teams to viruses such as Ebola trained and implemented in each region.
context
In Guinea, 2014 saw successive outbreaks of measles, meningitis and the Ebola virus. The delay in diagnosing Ebola highlighted the weakness of the epidemiological monitoring system in Guinea. The country needed both to bolster its short-term response and develop a lasting capacity to respond to future outbreaks.
The Project
In order to act quickly and effectively, and avoid a deadly spread of the virus, the idea was put forward to set up ERAREs, roving early-warning and rapid-response teams in each region of the country, comprising carers, logistics experts and hygienists. The PREPARE project was launched in 2015: in the space of two years, 13 training modules were developed, 23 training sessions delivered and 207 professionals from eight multi-purpose regional teams, as well as 317 national stakeholders involved in preventing and responding to health crises, were trained. Fifteen Guinean trainers, who have been given technical and methodological capacity building, can now be called upon by the Guinean authorities to offer continual professional development to healthcare workers responding to and preventing public health crises in the country. The creation of the National Health Security Agency (ANSS) served to confirm the Guinean authorities' firm commitment to secure this rapid response mechanism, especially through continued regular capacity building. At the beginning of 2017, Bioforce was therefore appointed by Expertise France to run capacity building sessions for the 39 members of the early warning and response teams on stock supply management. The country is now prepared to contend with outbreaks of haemorrhagic fever, measles, cholera and above all viruses such as Ebola. The importance of having teams in the field has been highlighted by all the partners. This measure is fully incorporated into the Guinean national health service, and the ERARE teams are now equipped to respond to such outbreaks completely independently. For more on the PREPARE project, read the section on the Expertise France website
Objectives
Preparedness, prevention and response capacity building for epidemics in Guinea
