Short Courses

Short Courses and workshops

Join us today and study the short course of your choice. All our courses are tailor made upon request and you get to sharpen your skills in readiness for opportunities

Delivery: Face to face or online options

Project Planning and Management

There are many reasons to study project management, whether you’re seeking a career as a Project Officer, or just want to learn new and build on project planning skills. This short course provides an excellent introduction to rich and fulfilling world of project management. Here are the top six of the many reasons to study project management.

What will you learn

  1. Principles of Management
  2. Project Design, Planning & Implementation
  3. Project Monitoring & Evaluation
  4. Project Leadership & Decision Making
  5. Strategic Planning and Management
  6. Project Financing and Finance Management
  7. Risk Management in Projects & Programmes

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

This course equips participants with competencies in monitoring and evaluation of development interventions at the project, programme and organizational level.

What will you learn

  1. Evaluation designs
  2. MEAL Indicators
  3. Data Collection, analysis and interpretation
  4. Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks
  5. Evaluation Designs
  6. Monitoring and Evaluation Report
  7. Monitoring and Evaluation plans

Humanitarian response to conflict and disaster

What will you learn

  1. The class explores how humanitarian efforts are mobilized to assist individuals suffering from the effects of natural disasters and human conflicts
  2. Case studies
  3. humanitarian practitioners, scholars, policy-makers, and global citizens
  4. humanitarian response
  5. major trends in humanitarian response
  6. violence against aid workers
  7. emergency responders and government departments responsible for deploying emergency personnel.

Health in complex humanitarian emergencies

Course Content

  1. Nutrition in Humanitarian Crises
  2. Health Care in Humanitarian Emergencies
  3. Management of Diseases in Humanitarian Crises
  4. Water and Sanitation
  5. Humanitarian Disasters and Public Health
  6. Emerging Risks, Challenges, and Opportunities for Future Humanitarian Emergencies
  7. Protection of Displaced Populations.

Child protection in humanitarian setting

What will you learn

  1. Principles and approaches
  2. Child development
  3. Families as protective environments
  4. Minimum standards for child protection
  5. Child labor
  6. Education and Child protection
  7. Community level approaches

Proposal writing and Resource Mobilization/ Fundraising

Course Content

  1. Resource mobilization
  2. Fundraising strategies
  3. Emerging practices in resource mobilization/fundraising
  4. Guidelines for writing a good proposal
  5. Donor retention
  6. The grant cycle

Leadership, governance and accountability for the humanitarian sector.

What will you learn

  1. Introduction to Humanitarian Emergencies, Crisis and Response Architecture
  2. Leadership and Governance in Humanitarian Emergencies and Crisis
  3. International humanitarian principles and legal frameworks.
  4. major actors in humanitarian sector
  5. Governance Landscape in Humanitarian Situations.