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Rapid Expert Deployment

CANADEM quickly deploys experts to support UN agencies’ personnel needs during rapid-onset humanitarian emergencies and disasters and for protracted crises within the Standby Partnership Program. Our experts, serving with Humanitarian Cluster Leads, improve the delivery of relief efforts in areas such as shelter, gender, child protection, nutrition, security, logistics, etc. to successfully contribute to the well-being of local and displaced vulnerable groups.

CANADEM ‘s experts can deploy in 48-72 hours, providing immediate expertise through their many years of experience. Our experts have proven time and again that they can hit the ground running and make that crucial contribution under challenging circumstances.

CANADEM has become an integral UN Standby Partner, and holds memorandums of understanding with various UN and international organizations such as UNICEF, UNHCR, UNFPA, OCHA, WFP, FAO, UNESCO, WHO, PAHO, IOM and UNDP to provide staffing relief in times of sudden, urgent needs.

What is a Standby Partner?

Stand-by Partners are organizations which provide surge capacity support to United Nations (UN) organisations responding to humanitarian emergencies through the secondment of gratis personnel. Each Stand-by Partner maintains a roster of humanitarian professionals who are ready to be deployed within 72 hours to fill staffing needs in UN operations.

Why are Standby Partners needed?

Stand-by Partners enable the UN to provide short-term staffing to field operations to meet emergency gaps. The partner organizations maintain their own rosters of trained and experienced humanitarian professionals, many of whom have prior UN humanitarian experience from which they may propose staff against requests made. Stand-by Partner experts can be deployed within days of receiving a formal request, due to CANADEM’s advanced screening and experts’ submission of required documents. Average mission duration is three to six months.

Why join CANADEM's Roster of Standby experts?

Coordinating with the largest humanitarian agencies in the world, Stand-by personnel benefit from rewarding and challenging fieldwork experience and derive satisfaction from seeing the positive impact of their work on people’s lives. CANADEM quickly deploys Canadian experts to support UN agencies’ personnel needs during rapid-onset humanitarian emergencies and disasters. Our experts, serving with Humanitarian Cluster Leads, improve the delivery of relief efforts to successfully contribute to the well-being of local and displaced vulnerable groups.

What does CANADEM need from me to join the Standby Roster?

In order for Stand-by Partner experts to be deployable, CANADEM requires:

• Current contact information
• Current field location
• Availability
• Updated resume and P11 form
• UN BSAFE certificates
• Medical clearance form
• Valid passport scan

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Deployment of surge humanitarian staff is supported by:

Rapid Assistance Program

Global Affairs Canada

For over 15 years, CANADEM has held a Rapid Assistance Program (RAP) funded by Global Affairs Canada. The purpose of the RAP-Fund is to support the rapid deployment of humanitarian and disaster relief experts. We augment the personnel needs of UN agencies by staffing short-term surge posts during sudden-onset natural disasters and complex humanitarian situations. The RAP works to enhance the timeliness, reliability, and effectiveness of Canada’s response to international humanitarian crises.
Humanitarian Emergency Response

FCDO

FCDO began working with CANADEM in 2013 and has steadily increased the amount of funding it has channeled through our organization. To date, CANADEM has deployed hundreds of humanitarian experts funded by FCDO, making us currently FCDO’s most used Standby partner.
CANADEM as a recruiter

United Nations

When no external funding for experts can be identified, UN agencies use CANADEM as a recruiter of last resort – we staff posts that are urgent but difficult to fill. We have deployed hundreds of experts to a wide variety of UN agencies with their own internal funding, including UNFPA, UNHCR, FAO, WFP and others.

CANADEM

CANADEM is an international not-for-profit NGO dedicated to advancing international peace and security through the rostering, rapid mobilization, and mission.

Respect for the environment
An ever-increasing awareness that caring for the environment is the responsibility of us all, regardless of our area of expertise or profession, has propelled CANADEM to place more focus on our own global footprint as well as that of our sector. During this Period, we have embarked on a challenge to enhance our learning regarding the environment and how we interact with it – including efforts to create a baseline and targets for improving how we deal with our natural environment. We are therefore making a conscious and transparent effort to measure and manage the way we affect the natural world around us, hopefully becoming better caretakers along the way.
Impact Driven
CANADEM has always valued the positive impact we make in the world as a foundation of our work. It is this guiding principle that has led us to form lasting partnerships, in support of other entities, if we feel they can add greater value than we can at CANADEM. Searching for our comparative advantage, while avoiding falling into a simple race to find funding opportunities, is therefore essential to CANADEM. As we see an increasing number of individuals suffering from the consequences of conflict in the world, and prepare for even greater numbers of environmental disasters, the need to prioritise the areas where we can make a real difference and combine our efforts with like-minded entities, is vital to achieving success.
Efficiency
The objective of CANADEM’s leadership has always been to find the most innovative and cost-effective ways to contribute to communities in need, and not to place the growth of numbers and our budgets at the centre of our efforts. As a result, we have adopted a light footprint in terms of our human resources complement and infrastructure, making use of the latest technology, and empowering our small team to be as innovative and flexible in solving problems as our procedures allow. Our structures allow us to scale up and down as required, and for staff to work in different teams, according to the needs of the moment. Our 30 years of experience has taught us what our core capacities are and how to allocate precious resources.
Accountability & Transparency Values
From CANADEM’s earliest beginnings as a Government of Canada project, and during its rapid evolution into an independent NGO with its roots in international service, the principles of accountability and transparency have been a component of CANADEM’s DNA. Accountability for the use of public funds has been incorporated into procedures that needed to respond to the high standards of government. Transparency has been the vehicle to ensure the vital accountability that CANADEM maintains. CANADEM’s headquarters team is a well-trained group of committed individuals who believe in the important work they do – including the conviction that providing the best value possible to the communities and donors we serve is a primary component of our job. CANADEM’s rules and procedures are therefore established to ensure that every step of the way we are confident of our work, and can demonstrate its efficiency and effectiveness.
People-Centered Values
Our work is about deploying people to help people. It is therefore of paramount importance to us that we are all relating to individuals in our chain of service delivery in a way that is respectful, understanding, considerate, and that brings out the best in us. Our internal working context is designed to foster humanity, fairness and support among our staff, which in turn aims to foster those same qualities among the experts we deploy. We have invested in a team of individuals (our Duty of Care Team), who provide a safety net for those experts we deploy. By taking care of our staff members and our deployed experts, we ensure that we have an effective flow of communication between all aspects of our operation. Our experienced and motivated staff feel supported, and are in turn able to support our experts in times of stress and prevent any potential problems from occurring.
Diversity & Inclusion Values
Ensuring an inclusive workplace that integrates diversity in terms of gender, language, culture, ethnicity and religion, is of prime importance for CANADEM both internally and with regards to our work with partners. We have made significant progress in attracting experts from 178 countries around the world – including from countries that are recipients of international assistance – so that a diversity of perspectives, understanding and expertise may be integrated into all operations that CANADEM supports. From our fair and transparent selection process, to our supportive Duty of Care Team (which ensures that individuals deployed have the resources they need to feel comfortable and confident in their work), we have invested significant energy in fostering diversity and inclusion within our roster system, in our election monitoring deployments, and in our own direct implementation of programming, at headquarters and in the field.
Partnership Values
The majority of our experts work within the assistance operations of our partners. Partnership is therefore of primary importance and value to us, and is key to the way we operate. Our many long-term relationships with other actors have been forged by promoting trust and understanding. The ability to work together with other actors, and not in competition, has allowed CANADEM to enhance the work of governments or organizations by injecting vital expertise, and targeting it where it is needed most. We believe that we can create a greater impact, when we work in partnership.