This course is designed to effectively train professionals working in humanitarian and development context on project management. It provides key tools and techniques for people involved in leading humanitarian projects or programs. It covers the fundamentals of project management in alignment with PMI’s standards as well as topics like Project...
This course will cover approaches to monitoring and evaluation used by humanitarian organizations and teams. It will focus on the principles of M&E, the logical framework, and approaches to designing and implementing M&E plans in humanitarian schemes. Through reflective exercises and online discussions, the course attempts to distill M&E approaches...
This course will discuss the basics of financial management and accounting with a special focus on budgeting and reporting for humanitarian projects. It will cover planning, collection, analysis and reporting of financial data. It will use a variety of modalities including short presentations, discussions, exercises, and case studies. It will...
Humanitarian work takes place in settings that involve many various stakeholders each of which has a different vested interest and a different amount of power which will conflict with the aims of humanitarian actors. This conflict of interests renders mediation and negotiation an essential part of humanitarian work. This course...
This course is an introduction to effective communication used for strategic decision making in humanitarian contexts and settings. The course is structured in two parts. The first focuses on interpersonal communication skills (dyadic) needed to communicate effectively with colleagues, staff, and potential partners and funders, and will include some elements...
Disasters have devastating consequences causing cause deaths and injuries, the destruction of property and infrastructure, mass displacement, mutilation to the environment and social and economic disturbance and. Humanitarian managers should be equipped with the proper planning and implementation skills in order to better prepare, respond and recover from disasters. This...
The 30 - hour foundation course GHUM 307 "Fundamentals of Humanitarian Action in Practice" essentially aims at serving as a stepping stone for developing expertise for humanitarian practitioners, researchers and policy makers in the Arab Region. The course portrays how International Humanitarian Law (IHL) guides the conduct of hostilities, mitigates...
At the onset of a crisis, humanitarian leadership and coordination should eventually contribute to the provision of relevant outcomes timely, neutrally, impartially, and most importantly “in a humane way”, and increase donors’ confidence, resulting in sufficient resources to achieve the desired outcomes, i.e., continuous recovery, rapid recuperation of normal living...
