About this course
Application deadline: 11 June 2023
3 – 14 July 2023
This executive short course has a dual objective to build students’ practical skills to design, implement and monitor projects using Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) and develop their critical and reflexive skills on the topic of cash and voucher assistance.
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Application deadline: 13 August 2023
4 – 15 September 2023
This executive short course is an intensive training given by academic staff and humanitarian practitioners, focusing on Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) in humanitarian crises, using specific methods and tools.
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Application deadline: 27 August 2023
18 – 29 September 2023
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.
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Application deadline: 10 September 2023
2 – 13 October 2023
This course aims to understand how essential it is to integrate a planetary health lens and strategy into humanitarian action. Its programme reviews how human-caused changes disrupt natural ecosystems, causing climate change, air and water pollution, biodiversity loss, disruption to our food production system, and changing patterns of diseases.
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About this course
Application deadline: 24 September 2023
16 – 27 October 2023
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. The growing involvement of tech companies in global philanthropy has only accelerated this ‘innovation turn’. From crowd-sourced data used in crisis mapping to the expansion of drones to facilitate relief distribution, humanitarian innovations capture a large diversity of digital devices meant to improve needs assessments, relief and protection during disasters, conflicts and migration
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Application deadline: 31 March 2024
22 April – 24 May 2024
While critically reviewing the current theories and practices of humanitarian leadership and people management, this course aims to ascertain the leadership capacities of participants and discover their preferred management style. In plenary sessions or peer-to-peer sessions, discussions and exercises will question emotional competencies, authority vs authoritarianism, stress management and institutional vision. Licensed coaches, humanitarian professionals and psychologists will accompany participants in an approach that considers the human-being in each worker.
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Executive Short Course
Addressing Sexual Violence in Conflict and Emergency Settings (Session II, Online)
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Application closed
10 May – 5 July 2023
This executive short course aims to provide humanitarian mid-level and senior managers the knowledge, competencies and skills required to conceive and operationalise a multidisciplinary approach to prevention and response of sexual violence in conflict and emergency settings. The course is delivered in partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), Utu Wetu Trust, Refugee Law Project, UNHCR, and independent human rights experts.
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Application closed
5 – 16 June 2023
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 – including discussions around the positioning of humanitarian actors towards witnessing, activism and human rights, or the assessment of public campaigns for policy change or protection. Then, it provides participants with the overall methodology to create an advocacy plan. The course will focus on operational advocacy specifically, so that programme managers can learn how to
address operational needs and field constraints in their advocacy strategy.
Executive Short Course
Patient Safety in Humanitarian Crises: Addressing Healthcare-Related Incidents
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Application open
13-24 November 2023
This course has been developed to support healthcare professionals operating in low and middle-income countries in managing healthcare incidents.
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November 2023
Application deadline to be confirmed
This online training, delivered in partnership with the Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN), focuses on the design of adapted negotiation strategies in humanitarian settings and the development of participants’ self-awareness. It links real situations experienced by participants with the latest concepts around humanitarian negotiation, meaning negotiations aimed at securing access, assistance and protection for civilians facing humanitarian emergencies.
Read More ➔https://humanitarianstudies.ch/education/negotiation-in-humanitarian-crises-nov-23/
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Application closed
New dates for spring 2024 to be confirmed
This training, delivered in partnership with the Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN), focuses on the design of adapted negotiation strategies in humanitarian settings, as well as the development of participants’ self-awareness. It links real-life situations experienced by participants with the latest concepts around humanitarian negotiation, meaning negotiations aimed at securing access, assistance and protection for civilians facing humanitarian emergencies.
Read More ➔https://humanitarianstudies.ch/education/negotiation-in-humanitarian-crises-2/
About this course
November 2023 (residential in Entebbe, Uganda)
Application deadline to be announced
The objective of this residential course in Entebbe, Uganda, is to provide mid-level and senior managers with 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.
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Application closed
22 May – 2 June 2023
This executive short course focuses on the particular challenges presented by non-communicable diseases in emergencies, as well as the design of adapted and effective projects to address non-communicable diseases. The course is delivered in partnership with the Centre for Global Chronic Conditions at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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Application closed
New dates to be confirmed in 2024
The relationship between aid agencies and international/local media is often ambivalent yet vital for public and operational outcomes. This course aims at exploring the theoretical and practical issues and implications of this challenging relationship.
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22 April – 24 May 2024
Application deadline: 28 January 2024
This executive course aims at strengthening the capacities of project managers to design humanitarian responses that focus on sustainable and locally defined changes. The course is based on the Results-Based Management (RBM) approach and provides concepts and tools for each phase of the project cycle.
Read More ➔https://humanitarianstudies.ch/education/humanitarian-project-cycle-management/
Executive Short Course
Addressing Sexual Violence in Conflict and Emergency Settings (Session I, Geneva)
➔About this course
Application closed
New dates to be confirmed in 2024
The objective of this one-week, intensive residential course is to provide mid-level and senior managers with 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.
About this course
Application deadline: closed
19 – 30 June 2023
Based on the book published by Professor Blanchet, “Applied Systems Thinking for Health Systems Research'”, the primary purpose of this intensive executive short course is to familiarize participants with a health systems approach to healthcare for communities in low and middle countries affected by humanitarianism crises.
