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
8 September 2021 – 31 October 2022
BLENDED LEARNING (3 months in Geneva, the remainder online)
Applications now open
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.
Diploma
About this course
13 September – 10 December 2021
(applications open – Scholarship applications deadline: 1 February 2021)
RESIDENTIAL IN GENEVA
The Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS) aims to offer professionals a critical understanding of the humanitarian system and response learning from history and various other disciplines and an ability to contextualize humanitarian action in today’s world.
Certificate of Advanced Studies
Certificate of Advanced Studies
Certificate of advanced studies: Quality Management of Humanitarian Projects
➔About this course
10 January 2022 – 1 April 2022 (applications not open)
ONLINE
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.
Executive Short Course
About this course
15 – 26 November 2021
Online course
This executive short course, delivered in partnership with the Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation (CCHN), is an online training which focuses on the design of adapted negotiation strategies in humanitarian settings, as well as the development of participant’s 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.
About this course
17 March – 5 May 2021
Online 8-week course
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
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. Based on the experience and know-how of various organisations, the course is a mix of theory and practical exercises.
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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 course provides a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of traditional and digital media. It focuses specifically on the uses of media in humanitarian settings and with humanitarian organisations. The course also offers media training on making humanitarian news, with a public relations outreach (press conference, media interview).
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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 in humanitarian settings, 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.
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31 May – 4 June, 2021
This five-day class has a dual objective to build students’ practical skills to design, implement and monitor projects using Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) as well as build their critical and reflexive skills on the topic of cash and voucher assistance.
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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.
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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) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
About this course
21 – 25 June, 2021
The primary purpose of this intensive 5-day course is to familiarise participants with a health systems approach to health care for communities in low and middle countries affected by humanitarian crises, through using practical interactive examples and case studies, and taught by experts who come from or have lived and worked in low and middle income countries during or after humanitarian crises.
About this course
4 – 8 October 2021
Residential course in Geneva
The overall objective of the course is 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), Refugee Law Project, UNHCR, and independent human rights experts.
About this course
29 November – 3 December 2021
Residential course in Uganda
The overall objective of the course is 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.
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January 2022 (applications not open)
ONLINE
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
February – March 2022 (six weeks)
(Applications not open)
ONLINE
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.
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.