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Response to the Rohingya refugee crisis
…in Bangladesh, they have developed language capacity by training local Rohingya speakers to work with them as interpreters in the refugee camps, as well as researched language barriers in Cox’s…
Accelerating Journey to Scale – Gathering Evidence and Creating Training Resources
The TWB’s Words of Relief team has been gathering evidence of effective communication in a crisis and developing innovative training resources to better support language service providers working in humanitarian…
TWB’s response in Nigeria
…recommendations for humanitarian organizations (in English) Learning review research for TWB trained community-based interpreters in Nigeria This report evaluates community-based interpreter training undertaken as part of the PROSPINE+ partners programme….
Supporting the Rohingya response in Bangladesh
…community action. Learn more. Report: Bridging community and humanitarian approaches to sexual and reproductive health in Rohingya communities Our research shows that a lack of training and awareness limit…
TWB launches the first-ever portal to connect humanitarian interpreters with non-profit organizations
…free training materials and resources such as glossaries, guides, and training videos. TWB has tested the portal with interpreters and cultural mediators over the past month, and their input has…
Translators without Borders provides support in 15 languages to give voice to Kenyans during elections
…operational since 2012, training more than 200 professional and community translators in the country. The rapid response translation team members were all trained by TWB. In addition to continuing their…
Only 56% of refugees can understand the info they’ve been given
…services, including rapid translations for partners working in the response; training humanitarians, translators and interpreters (professional and aspiring); setting up a language working group; language testing; terminology resources; and, conducting…
Words of Relief Orientation Training
Watch our orientation video in English Watch our orientation video in French…
Translators without Borders announces the winners of its 2017 Access to Knowledge Awards
…them for their future careers. As part of the Health Education & Training (HEAT) project, the new translators are improving access to health information for the local communities. Honorable mention:…
Translators without Borders develops the world’s first crisis-specific machine translation system for Kurdish languages
…‘training’ is not an option. Especially in a humanitarian context, technological choices must be driven by actual needs, regardless of what may be considered cutting edge elsewhere’, said Mirko Plitt,…
Capacity Building in Guinea
…information through the training of local translators who have translated 800,000 words of healthcare content. The content comes from HEAT (Health Education and Training), a radical program launched in early…