Health and Care Training Platform
The Health and Care Training Platform is the IFRC’s central hub for health and care capacity strengthening. It brings together training courses, guidance, tools, and learning resources developed from across the Red Cross and Red Crescent Network. Through a single point of access, the platform offers a diverse range of technical and cross-cutting learning opportunities designed to help volunteers, staff, and partners build the knowledge and skills needed to improve community health outcomes worldwide.
Getting Started: Who It’s For & How to Learn
Puri Lal Devkota sits alongside a community health worker who explains how best to wash hands and stay safe from infectious diseases. Puri Lal built a new latrine by himself after the health worker paid him a visit and talked to him about how to improve hygiene practices.
Photo: Kristina Wirth/Swiss Red Cross
Built to support Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers, staff, and partners worldwide, the Health and Care Training Platform is also completely free and open to anyone interested in community health, disease prevention, and wellness promotion.
Depending on your role, interests, or program priorities, you can engage with our flexible, self-directed resources in multiple ways:
- Learning Pathways: Combine multiple modules to build comprehensive skills in a specific area.
- Individual Courses: Select standalone resources to deepen your knowledge on a particular topic.
- Foundational Competencies: Start with our recommended building block modules to establish core practical skills, then transition into specialized technical areas.
The four foundational building block modules
The Health and Care Training Platform is supported by four Building Block Modules that provide the foundational skills for effective community-based health and care action. These four core modules serve as recommended starting points for learners. They offer transferable, practical competencies that provide the foundation for effective, community-based health and care programming.
- Behaviour Change
- Community Assessment
- Community Mobilisation
- Volunteer Mobilisation
Alignment with the Health and Care Framework 2030
The Health and Care Training Platform is organized around the three pillars of the Health and Care Framework 2030, ensuring that learning opportunities reflect the breadth of health and care work across the Red Cross and Red Crescent Network:
Pillar 1: Global Health Security
Pillar 2: Global Health Protection & Universal Health Coverage
