This certificate addresses the essential components that guarantee the quality management of adapted projects and cohesive teams. It integrates fundamental principles such as inclusion, do no harm, accountability or participation into processes, methods and tools of project and people management.
Objectives and competencies
At the end of the CAS, participants will be able to apply a qualitative framework in order to manage projects and teams in line with local and international prerogatives.
More specifically, following the Result-Based Management approach and taking into account ethical issues, specificity of contexts and the organizations’ mandate:
You will be able to:
- manage people according to the key principles of leadership for diversity, inclusion and duty of care
- design and implement inclusive and coordinated humanitarian projects
- Analyse humanitarian contexts
- Assess needs and capacities of local population
- Plan and program responses
- Monitor and evaluate progress and results
You will be able to critically review existing projects and people management practices.
Programme content
- Initialisation
- Module 1: Human leadership and People Management
- Module 2: Analysing humanitarian contexts: Vulnerabilities and Capacities
- Module 3: Assessing needs and capacities
- Module 4: Planning projects and their monitoring systems
- Module 5: Programming resources and implementing interventions
- Module 6: Safety and Security – Piloting risks
- Module 7: Monitoring and evaluation
- Closure and Final assignment
Structure
Around 250 hours of work including:
- Pre-readings
- Live teaching sessions
- Individual and group work
Workload
- 11.5 weeks
- 20 hours workload per week
How to register:
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Admission Requirements
- A university qualification following three years of study plus relevant work experience.
English Language Requirements
All classes at CERAH are delivered in English. All students must have an excellent command of English. Students whose mother tongue is not English, who do not have secondary or post-secondary qualifications taught in English or who have not spent a minimum of one year studying full-time at a university level in English (please provide transcripts certifying that courses were delivered in English), must provide a certificate to prove their mastery of English.
Recognised tests and scores:
- TOEFL (Test of English as Foreign Language): Internet-test : 100
- IELTS (International English Language Testing System) : 7.0
- CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English, Cambridge English, part of the University of Cambridge) : B-C
- CAE (Cambridge Advanced English, Cambridge English, part of the University of Cambridge) : B-C
Admissions Process
Incomplete applications will not be considered. The Selection Committee examines the quality of the application and aims to reach a balance between the numbers of men and women, educational profile and professional experience, geographical distribution and financial contribution. 20 candidates maximum are selected each year.