Humanitarian Advocacy: From Bearing Witness to Activism
This course addresses two main competences related to advocacy in the humanitarian sector. The first relates to the critical analysis of the definition and dynamics of advocacy for humanitarian assistance. This includes discussions around the positioning of humanitarian actors towards witnessing, activism, and human rights. Additionally, the course delves into the assessment of public campaigns for policy
26 May - 6 June 2025
4 May 2025
Digital Innovations in Humanitarian Action: Opportunities and Challenges
Since the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, the use of digital innovations and new technologies is increasing to provide humanitarian assistance. While it shows the prevalence of data revolution in the aid sector, the relation of humanitarian organisations to innovations is not unprecedented.
9 - 20 June 2025
18 May 2025
Addressing Sexual Violence in Conflict and Emergency Settings
The overall objective of this executive short course is to provide humanitarian mid-level and senior managers with the knowledge, competencies and skills required to conceive and operationalise a multidisciplinary approach in sexual violence prevention and response, both adapted to conflict and emergency settings and as an integral part of humanitarian operations.
23 June – 18 July 2025
1 June 2025
Advanced Course on AI-Enhanced Negotiation in Health Emergencies
The Advanced Course on AI-Enhanced Negotiation in Health Emergencies prepares practitioners to manage high-stakes negotiations in humanitarian and health crises, including conflicts, pandemics, climate disasters, and mass displacement. In such environments, structured negotiation planning is essential to achieving effective outcomes.
This course provides practical tools to analyse negotiation contexts, assess stakeholder positions, anticipate challenges, and develop strategies. Participants will learn to design and optimise an AI assistant using ChatGPT to support scenario planning, risk assessment, and decision-making. AI-driven tools enhance strategic thinking by generating insights, improving communication, and streamlining complex negotiations.
13 - 17 July 2025
22 June 2025
Advanced Course on AI-Enhanced Negotiation in Health Emergencies
The Advanced Course on AI-Enhanced Negotiation in Health Emergencies prepares practitioners to manage high-stakes negotiations in humanitarian and health crises, including conflicts, pandemics, climate disasters, and mass displacement. In such environments, structured negotiation planning is essential to achieving effective outcomes.
This course provides practical tools to analyse negotiation contexts, assess stakeholder positions, anticipate challenges, and develop strategies. Participants will learn to design and optimise an AI assistant using ChatGPT to support scenario planning, risk assessment, and decision-making. AI-driven tools enhance strategic thinking by generating insights, improving communication, and streamlining complex negotiations.
20 - 24 July 2025
29 June 2025
Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflicts
The aim of the course is to provide a general introduction to the protection of civilians, with a focus on conflict and post-conflict environments. It provides insight into both theory and practical realities and applies critical thinking on concepts, principles and professional practices most common amongst protection actors in humanitarian or peace operations.
1 – 12 September 2025
10 August 2025
Planetary Health
Planetary health focuses on the changes humans are making to their environment and its multidimensional impacts on ecosystems and human health. It recognises that human health and the health of our planet are interconnected.
15 – 26 September 2025
24 August 2025
Addressing Sexual Violence in Conflict and Emergency Settings (Uganda)
Applications closed
Postponed to November 2025 (Residential in Entebbe, Uganda)
IMPORTANT: Due to the Ebola pandemic in Uganda, we cannot run the session in residential. The format is changed to ONLINE.
The objective of this residential course in Entebbe, Uganda, is to provide mid-level and senior managers the knowledge and skills required to conceive a multidisciplinary approach to respond to the complex needs of survivors of sexual violence in conflicts and emergencies. The course is delivered in partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins sans Frontières, Refugee Law Project, UNHCR, and independent human rights experts. This course session focuses on East Africa and targets participants based or working in the region.
Postponed to November 2025
Applications closed.
Patient Safety in Humanitarian Crises: Addressing Healthcare-Related Incidents
This course has been developed to support healthcare professionals operating in low and middle-income countries in managing healthcare incidents. Despite the dedication and skills of healthcare professionals, incidents in the healthcare field remain unfortunately a reality. When things go wrong, it is important not to blame the individuals involved but to look deeper into the root causes of the incident and learn from a process/system perspective.
2-13 December 2024
The course is fully booked, applications are closed.
Cash and Voucher Assistance in Humanitarian Action: What Works?
This executive short course has a dual objective. Firstly, it aims to build students’ practical skills to design, implement, and monitor projects using Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA). Secondly, it seeks to develop their critical and reflexive skills on the topic of cash and voucher assistance.
12 May 2025 - 23 May 2025
4 May 2025
Humanitarian Health Diplomacy: Reconstructing health systems after war in the Arab World
Humanitarian Health Diplomacy: Reconstructing health systems after war in the Arab World is a unique residential course in Doha for professionals in the humanitarian, development and social sectors. This course offers face-to-face training with leading experts, focusing on practical methods for post-conflict health system reconstruction. Participants learn to analyse complex environments, develop strategic recovery plans and manage challenging relationships through a blend of theory and hands-on exercises.
4 - 8 May 2025
13 April 2025
Health Emergencies in Large Populations (H.E.L.P.)
H.E.L.P is a two-week course on the provision of humanitarian relief during disasters, armed conflicts, and other complex crises. It was created in 1986 by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the University of Geneva, to professionalise the delivery of humanitarian assistance during emergencies, and to promote professional ethics and humanitarian principles.
5 - 16 May 2025
27 April 2025
Negotiating on the Frontlines
For a long time, negotiating in humanitarian operations was felt as compromising principles and norms. Only recently was it found to reinforce humanitarian impact by considering the interests of all sides and the context to make a deal.
28 April - 9 May 2025
6 April 2025
Health Systems Assessment in Humanitarian Crises
The primary purpose of this intensive executive short course, based on the book published by Professor Blanchet, Applied Systems Thinking for Health Systems Research, is to familiarize participants with a health systems approach to healthcare for communities in low and middle countries affected by humanitarian crises through practical, interactive examples and case studies, and taught by experts with humanitarian expertise in low- and middle-income countries during or after humanitarian crises.
14 April 2025 - 25 April 2025
23 March 2025
Humanitarian Project Cycle Management
This executive course aims at strengthening the capacities of project managers to design humanitarian responses that focus on sustainable and locally defined changes. It is based on the Theory of Change (ToC) and Results-Based Management (RBM) approaches. Essential tools such as the problem tree or logical framework are adapted to ensure the transfer of those approaches at the operational level.
17 February 2025 - 21 March 2025
6 February 2025
Humanitarian Leadership and People Management
While critically reviewing the current theories and practices of humanitarian leadership and people management, this executive short course aims to ascertain the leadership capacities of participants and discover their preferred management style.
8 January – 31 January 2025
18 December 2024