Our courses provide comprehensive training for beginners and advanced users. They will equip you with the essential skills, tools and good practices from the field to successfully manage projects in development cooperation and humanitarian work. All courses follow a participatory approach based on case studies, with many exercises and facilitated disscusions. This allows teachers and participants to bring in and share their experiences in the group.
There are two sets of courses: entry-level basic courses, and advanced courses.
Please note that all courses are available in English and French. Ces cours peuvent également être animés en français.
Basic Courses
These three courses provide comprehensive training for beginners. They will equip them with the essential skills, tools and good practices from the field, in order to successfully manage projects in development cooperation and humanitarian work. A participatory approach, based on case studies with exercises and facilitated discussions structures them. Upon completion of the three courses, participants obtain a Certificate in Project Cycle Management. Each course can also be taken individually, which leads to a course certificate. The three courses are:
- Needs Assessments in Emergency and Rehabilitation situations (5 days) – Strategies, techniques and tools to prepare and conduct a needs assessment
- Planning, Programming and Monitoring Projects (5 days) – How to plan a project, programme its activities and design and use its monitoring system
- Evaluating Projects (3 days) – Planning and designing an internal and/or external project evaluation
Advanced Courses
The two advanced courses are for persons with previous experience in conducting field assessments and at least one year of active work in project management. The focus on all advanced courses is on reviewing, discussing and solving problematic issues, including subjects brought up by the participants.
The comprehensive five-day course Project Cycle Management Compact provides fast-track training on needs assessment, designing and planning a project, monitoring its implementation and preparing evaluations in a compact format. It is designed for practitioners in project management who have either not yet obtained basic training, or not yet on all subjects of the project cycle:
- Project Cycle Management Compact (5 days) – Fast-track project management for practitioners
Before phasing out humanitarian and development programmes or projects, it is crucial to develop a sustainable disengagement strategy to withdraw responsibly. This course focuses on developing and integrating an appropriate strategy and exit plan in project proposal development, developing monitoring and follow-up tools for the implementation of the disengagement plan of action, and to develop a fast-track approach with the involvement of all main stakeholders for programmes or projects which need to be ended within a very short period of time:
- Exit Strategies: Effective Programme Disengagement (3 days) – Achieving programme and project sustainability
Both advanced courses are for those with at least one year of experience in active project management. The focus of all advanced courses is to review, discuss and solve problematic issues, including those subjects brought up by the participants.
