Learning Can Save Lives

Our Story

To fulfill its mandate in being an institution that fosters innovation and a brand of excellence in capacity development, CODE-NGO agreed to work with the Humanitarian Leadership Academy (The Academy) as the latter’s exclusive affiliate in the Philippines. The Academy is an international humanitarian capacity-building and a social enterprise institution based in the United Kingdom.

CODE-NGO then created the Center for Humanitarian Learning and Innovation (CHLI) to take on the work of the Academy in the Philippines through its former Philippines Academy Center (PAC). CODE-NGO used to be a partner of PAC.

CHLI will serve as a one-stop shop for innovative humanitarian learning solutions and services to individuals and institutions working in humanitarian contexts including local government units (LGUs), micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and cooperatives, civil society organizations (CSOs), academic institutions, humanitarian learning providers, among others.

CHLI capitalizes on CODE-NGO’s expansive network and extensive experience in capacity building, localization of humanitarian action, community-based and participatory DRRM, coupled with the Academy’s expertise in developing innovative and contextualized learning solutions for different audiences in the Philippines and globally.

Our Vision

Resilient communities characterized by lower exposure to disaster risks, reduced losses to lives and assets, and increased ability to recover from the impact of natural and human-induced hazards.

Our Mission

Enabling people and organizations prepare for, respond to and recover from crises in their own communities through accessible, relevant and innovative learning solutions, products and services.

Our Goals

Working with humanitarian learning providers and other partners to make locally-relevant and innovative learning and knowledge products accessible to individuals and institutions, CHLI aims to:

Increase the capacity of national and local government, civil society and other institutions working in humanitarian contexts to respond to crises more quickly, effectively and accountably;
Increase the capacity of businesses, civil society and other development and service institutions, local governments and other government agencies to resume operations more quickly and minimize the impact of serious disruptions caused by natural or human-induced hazards; and,
Increase the capacity and commitment of humanitarian volunteers and professionals to respond to crises more quickly and effectively.