Our courses focus on strengthening competencies for humanitarian professionals. Prospective students can select from a wide variety of courses in terms of length and discipline with flexible and modular options for professionals to deepen their knowledge.
Thematic priorities for our courses are developed in close consultation with the Centre’s academic and humanitarian partners. Modules covering disciplines such as political science, international relations, economics, law, public health, geopolitics, sociology, anthropology, management, communication and ethics are all linked through an interdisciplinary approach.
Master
About this course
14 September, 2020 – 30 August, 2021
Applications for 2020-2021 now closed
This Master programme is a unique blended learning postgraduate course on humanitarian action. It provides current and future humanitarian professionals with the managerial, theoretical and practical skills needed to optimize responses to humanitarian crises. For the academic year 2020/21, students will complete the first term online, and then learn together in Geneva for the remainder of the course.
Diploma
About this course
18 January, 2021 – 26 March 2021
This course provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of the main conceptual aspects of humanitarian action, and the capacity to critically analyse humanitarian contexts, responses and transversal issues.
Certificate of Advanced Studies
Certificate of Advanced Studies
Certificate of advanced studies: Quality Management of Humanitarian Projects
➔About this course
16 September – 4 December, 2020
ONLINE COURSE (Self study and live sessions)
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.
Certificate of Advanced Studies
Blended Learning Certificate: Designing Strategies and Projects in Humanitarian Action
➔About this course
12 October, 2020 – 27 June, 2021
Blended ONLINE course, including 2 residential weeks in Kampala, Uganda (31 Jan-10 Feb 2021)
The eight-month modular, flexible and skills-based course is ideal for managers working in the humanitarian sector who want to enhance their existing skills particularly in the areas of project management, partnerships, collaborative leadership and gender and diversity. This course is studied remotely, taking eight hours per week. The remote work is complemented by a two-week, intensive, residential course in Uganda.
Executive Short Course
About this course
21 September – 2 October, 2020
ONLINE course (two weeks)
While critically reviewing the current trends and frameworks around leadership and people management, this executive short course aims to give you the opportunity to ascertain what kind of leader you are.
About this course
Option A: 19 October – 26 November, 2020 or Option B: 19-30 October, 2020
Online course
This executive short course focuses on the design of projects that take into account the specificity of humanitarian contexts. At the end of the course, participants will be able to plan a project and its monitoring system following the Result-Based Management approach, using the problem tree and logical framework tools.
About this course
2 – 13 November, 2020
Online course (50 hours in two weeks)
This executive short course focuses on the analysis and design of adapted negotiation strategies. Spread over two weeks, it implies two to four hours of daily work in average combining individual and group work as well as live sessions with international experts.
About this course
21 October – 9 December, 2020 (15:00 – 16:30 CET)
ONLINE
The overall objective of the course 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.
About this course
15 – 19 March, 2021
The overall objective of the course 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.
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19 – 23 April, 2021
This course focuses on the development of a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the challenges, opportunities and limits of dialogue with communities – including intercultural communication, accountability and strategy – to build constructive relationships.
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26 – 30 April, 2021
Using lectures, case studies and discussions with professionals in humanitarian advocacy, develop strategic skills to better analyse specific contexts, map stakeholders, and design effective advocacy strategies in support of operational humanitarian projects.
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3-7 May, 2021
This executive short course provides participants with a better understanding of traditional and social media and the use of media relations in humanitarian settings.
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10 – 14 May, 2021
This executive course is a full time training, given by climate experts and humanitarian health practitioners, which focuses on the climate emergency and its impacts on health.
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17 – 21 May, 2021
This executive short course is a full time training which focuses on the design of adapted negotiation strategies, as well as the development of participant’s self-awareness.
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25 – 28 May, 2021
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.
About this course
14 – 18 June, 2021
This executive course is a full time training, given by academic staff and humanitarian practitioners, which focuses on Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) in humanitarian crises, using specific methods and tools. This course is delivered in partnership with the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
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31 May – 4 June, 2021
This executive course is a full time training, which focuses on the assessment, design and implementation of effective livelihoods-related interventions for humanitarian responses, using specific tools and methods including Cash Transfer Programming and Rapid Market Assessment.
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21 – 25 June, 2021
Participants will familiarise with a health systems approach to health care for communities in low/middle-income countries affected by humanitarian crises, through case studies and taught by experts coming from or have lived in low/middle-income countries during or after humanitarian crises.
About this course
7 – 11 June, 2021
This executive short course aims at analyzing the activities undertaken by humanitarian actors and the international community to protect the fundamental rights of specific categories of vulnerable communities, in accordance with human rights law, international humanitarian law and refugee law.
Massive Online Open Course
About this course
The Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) “Humanitarian communication, addressing key challenges” allows participants to gain some of the competencies by focusing on the main challenged of communications in humanitarian settings and the means to address these challenges.The five-week online FREE course requires three to four hours of work per week and offers maximum flexibility to remotely-connected participants, who learn at their own pace.