France: Humanitarian programme: managing programmes & projects

Dates: September 30th to October 18th 2019

Location: Lyon, France

Audience: already working or willing to work as a manager in the humanitarian sector.

Prerequisites: mandatory Previous experience in project or programme management. Level of English proficiency: B2 minimum (according to European language levels - Self Assessment Grid)

Objectives:

• To enable participants to choose and apply appropriate tools to manage all stages of the project cycle in humanitarian contexts.
• Purpose of the Project Cycle Management (PCM) approach, steps and essential tools and methods for PCM, strategic, programmatic and operational levels of humanitarian action.
• Programme strategy building at country level or with a sectorial approach, purpose of planning and assessments in the project and programme cycle.
• Appropriate assessment methodologies and tools, common quantitative and qualitative data-collection tools for assessments.
• Monitoring and evaluation, commonly used quantitative indicator types (rates, proportions etc.) and their application.
• Log frame main elements, schedule planning for activities and resources using PERT and Gantt techniques, links with the implementation and Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) steps.
• Purpose of monitoring in the programme cycle, differences and links between M&E, evaluation cycle and appropriate evaluation tools.
• Main elements of the Terms of Reference for an evaluation, critical thinking on PCM, quality and accountability promotion at all stages of PCM.

Further information & application : Bioforce Institute website

https://humanitaire.institutbioforce.fr/fr/webform/espace-inscription