Waste Management For Humanitarians: List of Excellent Free Courses

Waste management is an essential aspect of greening our humanitarian aid responses, yet it is often overlooked or in some occasions poorly managed. In the series I created on this blog on free open-access online courses for humanitarians, it’s about time to address waste management for humanitarians. To address this gap in knowledge and skills, a growing number of organizations and platforms are offering free open-access online courses on waste management for humanitarians.

As always, these lists will always be incomplete, please let me know what else to include. I highlighted and featured some of the best free online courses available for humanitarians looking to improve their waste management skills. By addressing waste management in our sector properly, we enable more sustainability and environmental protection, reduced public health risks, and more effective and efficient humanitarian aid responses.

Whether you are a seasoned aid worker or new to the field, these courses might offer valuable insights and practical guidance on managing waste in a crisis setting. This list on waste management follows the list published two weeks ago on free courses on sustainability and greening humanitarian responses (available by clicking here). Other related course lists are available on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, as well as Logistics and supply chains. (Please take a look for all in this series here.)

Some general courses that I relish to recommend to start with, around global public health and global environmental health would be the following: Impacts of the Environment on Global Public Health Specialization by University of Michigan, or Global Environmental Management by Technical University of Denmark.