Guardian's Hostile Environment Awareness Training enables you to survive critical situations and to take care of your own safety and security in high-risk areas. The course provides participants with knowledge and skills to lower the potential risks and cope with threats, injuries, hostage takings, terrorist attacks and armed clashes and more.

The theoretical lessons contain directly applicable toolboxes. Most lessons are supported by practical training sessions, which challenge you with highly skilled role players, giving it a realistic feel.

For more than eight years, Guardian has provided HEAT courses for journalists, photographers, NGOs and companies working in high-risk areas. The courses are developed on the basis of the company’s own experience of operating and assisting customers in high-risk areas worldwide. We revise and develop the course continuously in accordance with feedback from our participants and real-life situations.

Courses for individual participants

The open courses are intended for people with or without any prior training. During the course we facilitate sharing of experiences and safety advice based on the participants' own experiences. The content of the three-day open course is:

• Security awareness
• Tools to cope with critical incidents in high-risk areas
• First aid
• Navigation and electronic communication
• Risk-reducing behavior and communication
• Stress management techniques
• Roadblocks and negotiations
• Hostage survival
• Travel safety and navigation
• Peer support after critical incidents
• Awareness of mines and other explosives

You can find the period for our next open HEAT-course on our webpage www.guardian-srm.com.

Courses for companies and organisations For companies and organisations we provide tailor-made courses to suit your needs and match your security policy. The partipants can learn to:

• Deal with a range of incidents, and prioritize and plan proper responses
• Provide life-saving first aid, also under primitive conditions
• Apply a number of techniques to reduce risk during visits to high-risk areas, including working with close protection teams, local drivers and fixers
• Recognize their own and others’ reactions to stress and apply stress management techniques
• Make relevant decisions and take security precautions when encountering check points and mines, or when under fire
• Use survival techniques during a hostage-taking in all its stages
• Utilise knowledge about the local cultural context to optimize security
• Participate in reflection, sharing of experience, and mutual support

3-4 times a year we conduct open courses for individual participants. The courses for individual participants are mostly conducted in Denmark.

For companies and organisations we provide tailor-made courses, ensuring you get the course modules to suit your needs and match your organizational security strategy. These courses can be provided all over the world.

Contact Guardian on e-mail guardian@guardian-srm.com for more details.

Security Management for NGO & Humanitarian Organisations

Security Management Online Course for NGO and Humanitarian Organisations. This course takes approximately 40 hrs study time and covers a wide range of topics and security principles suitable for not only NGO security managers, but any security manager working in insecure environments.

Course Format:Online Training Course

Learning Hours:40 guided learning hours

Course Structure:The course has 12 units. Each unit is assessed by either multiple choice, true/false questionnaire, short answer assignment, short research assignment or combination of these. The course is self enrollment and is completed in the learners own time. All units are open to the learner on enrollment but units must be completed to move on to the next unit.

Course Information:

This course is based on materials and approaches developed by UNHCR’s Field Safety Section for the training of UNHCR managers deploying to insecure environments. The materials have been modified by Evosec & the ISAB to apply to a wide range of humanitarian organisations, NGOs and aid agencies. The Security Risk Assessment (SRA) model is based principally on that of the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS). Other tools and materials have been drawn from various text, on-line, and other training resources, with due attribution to the original source wherever possible.

The aim of this course is to introduce managers of humanitarian and development programs in insecure areas to the techniques and tools of managing risk. Emphasis is placed on three principle areas of concern: security risk assessment, security plans and planning, and critical incident management.

There are several assessments throughout the course including multiple choice questions, short answer questions and assignments. The assignments will be graded by a tutor who will give you feed back on each of your answers.

This course is designed to be informative and build up the concepts associated with security and risk management in insecure environments. If you would like further practical training you may be interested in Evosec's "Planning, Implementing and Managing Security Plans in insecure environments". This course is a classroom based course with real world scenarios, group projects and discussions that help develop the skills required for managing security systems. The "Planning, Implementing and Managing Security Plans in insecure environments" course will be launching in April 2014

Learning Objectives for this Course

After successfully completing this learning module, you should be able to:

• Better understand the global trend of insecurity facing humanitarian field workers and the general types of responses that are being taken to meet security threats in the field by UN, Red Cross Movement, and NGO partners.
• Understand, appreciate and explain the overall Security Risk Assessment (SRA) and Security Risk Management (SRM) approaches to security management for humanitarian field workers.
• Use standardized terminology and tools to assess threat patterns, analyze risk, and prioritize measures to reduce risks of different threats in your working environment.
• Develop basic security plans, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and scenario-specific contingency plans for serious security incidents.
• Understand the basic strategies for responding effectively to critical security incidents in the field should they actually occur.
• Understand the relationships between different operational partners in the field concerning your security.
• Understand and deal with the relationship between stress and security for field-based staff.See Full List of Units >>

Accreditation:This course is certified through the ISAB (International Security Awarding Body). You will receive a physical and digital version of your certificate on successful completion of this course.

Course Cost:€750 includes certification fees.

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MS-TCDC - MS Training Centre for Development Cooperation

Bachelor of Arts in Non Profit Studies

Come and become a professional in the non profit sector by taking a Bachelor of Arts in Non Profit Studies, which provides you with a cutting edge knowledge, skills and competencies highly relevant for leading professions in the sector. The non profit sector is a major contributor to social, economic and political development globally. It mediates between government and private business to ensure enjoyment of rights by citizens. It mobilizes resources, recovers costs and re-invests back surplus to communities. The sector is growing and consists of NGOs, Cooperatives, Foundations/Trusts, Trade Unions, Women Groups, Youth Groups, Self Help Groups, Think Tanks and more.

A degree in Non Profit Studies, provides graduates with skills to function as: Fundraiser, Grant officer, Project Manager, Development Advisor; Monitoring and Evaluation Officer; Education Coordinator, Community animator/development worker, Human Resource Manager, institutional development advisor; humanitarian officer; Business developer, social entrepreneur; development trainer; Local and International development coordinator, volunteer manager etc.

About the Program
The activities of non profit sector cut across all other sectors of Society. The sector is more important especially in developing countries of Africa where development facilitation needs are more and growing. The non profit sector serves more than 600,000 million people in Africa. It also employs more than 1million people. The high level of growth in the sector means there is an increasing demand for creative and competent leadership and management to effectively steer the growth and sustainability of the sector.

The three years degree course is a natural progression for practitioners with various diplomas and high school graduates who would want to take a specialized degree in non profit studies and development. The full honours degree, allow students to access enrolment into a Master’s program of their choice.

Objectives of the BA in Non Profit Studies

The main objective of this multi- disciplinary, competence based curriculum is to prepare undergraduates who will work flexibly at different workplaces in leadership and management functions of non profit organizations. The specific learning objectives include to:

• Apply principles of leadership and management, ethics, values and integrity, volunteerism, and aid and development to manage non profit organizations
• Employ principles of managing international Non-governmental organizations, business modelling, human resource management, organizational development in leadership and management of non profit organization functions
• Apply principles of financial management, supply chain management, social entrepreneurship and programming and project planning in non profit sector activities
• Employ principles of results based management, project implementation, policy advocacy and lobbying and gender mainstreaming in performing non profit organizations’ functions
• Apply techniques of research and statistical methods, communication skills in English and economics theories in implementation of non- profit functions
• Apply principles of non profit organizations, poverty and inequality, community empowerment and outreach and political economy of development in performance of non-profit sector operations
  Course Content

BA Non Profit Studies Level 7

• Communication Skills in English

• Concepts and Principles of Non-Profit Organizations

• Aid and Development

• Economic Theory of Non Profits

• Principles and Approaches to Volunteerism

• Principles in Non Profit Leadership and Management

• Financial Management in Non Profits

• Poverty and Inequality

• Political Economy of Development

• Organizational Development

• Community Development

• Business Modelling for Non Profits

• Research Methods

• Programming and Project Planning

• Gender Mainstreaming

• Human Resource Management

• Ethics, Values and Integrity

• Supply Chain Management

• Statistics for Development Research

• Social Entrepreneurship Skills

• Project Implementation

• Results-based Management

• International Non Governmental Organizations

• Policy Advocacy and Lobbying

BA Non Profit Studies Level 8

• Social Innovations in Non Profits

• Fund raising and Resource Mobilisation

• Disaster Preparedness and Management

• Legal and Regulatory Framework

• Strategic Leadership

• Environmental Governance

• Monitoring and Evaluation

• Knowledge Management

• Contemporary Issues in Non Profit Sector

• Global Power Dynamics

• Research Project

Target Group
This course is for adult practitioners in private, public and civil society organizations. It is intended for adults who have a relevant diploma and High School Graduates, who have qualified for university entry.

Entry Requirements
BA Level 7 requires ordinary diploma (NTA Level 6) or Form VI with at least two principle and a subsidiary pass. Other equivalent qualifications are acceptable from other African Regional member states, as long as they are approved by NACTE. BA level 8 requires one to be holder of NTA level 7. The programme allows one to exit at level 7.

Adult Learning
The BA program follows a modular approach which allows flexibility to adult learners and full time working professionals. The modality of course delivery is face-to-face facilitation for 6 weeks per semester at MS TCDC and additional coursework to completed in between facilitation. The MS TCDC methodology, emphasizes joint learning, knowledge sharing, investigative enquiry and problem solving.

Costs
Tuition fee per semester is US $ 560 only. BA NPS comprises 6 semesters.

Date
Semester 1 (S1) intake 2016-2018:

10th October – 18th November 2016

To apply for the course please visit our website and download the application form and submit to our programme administrator through shemj@mstcdc.or.tz or send to our general contacts.

The application fee is Tsh 10,000 payable through JKUAT Account No: 3300451426 KCB BANK; ACCOUNT NAME: JKUAT ARUSHA CAMPUS.

Filled application forms with application fees can be sent to Board of Postgraduate Studies, JKUAT, P.O.Box 62,000 – 00200 Nairobi, Kenya or to the programme administrator, P.O.Box 254 Arusha or by email, shemj@mstcdc.or.tz or call Tel.+255-27-2553837/8/9 or +255-754-651 715

MS-TCDC - MS Training Centre for Development Cooperation

Bachelor of Arts in Governance and Development (NACTE Level 7 & 8)

The changing nature and dynamism in development means that development workers must update their skills to meet these challenges. MS Training Centre for Development Cooperation having been at the forefront in the provision of cutting edge professional development and being a centre of excellence in development training has taken the challenge to provide higher education training in Governance and Development.

The degree is a natural progression for practitioners and students with various Diplomas who would wish to take specialized degree in governance and development. Studies have proven that governance and accountability are vital ingredients to people centred development.

The course at level 8 (available to those with ordinary bachelors degree such as TCDC/Kimmage BA Development Studies) serves as bridging course to the award of a full honours degree. The honours once acquired allow students to access enrolment into a Masters programme of their choice.

Course Objectives

The course is intended to achieve various objectives. At Level 7, candidates should be able to:

• Apply principles of governance, democracy and development, leadership in governance and power and voice in governance and development policies;
• Apply theories and principles of global governance and politics, human rights, alternative development approaches and state-society relations to social justice and rule of law in development functions;
• Apply principles and concepts of sociology, social entrepreneurship, political economy and development finance to solve economic problems in developing economies;
• Apply principles of public policy, foreign aids, Non- Governmental Organizations and gender perspectives in governance and development of developing economies;
• Apply techniques of research and communication to collect, process and disseminate information on governance and development; and
• Apply principles of regional integration and community participation, international relations and politics of development in emerging democracies in governance and development.

Upon completing level 8, they should be able to;

• Apply principles and methods of governance research, statistics and measurements in development;
• Apply principles of natural resources governance, urban governance, and taxation for development;
• Apply approaches of development management, power and decision-making and feminist leadership in governance and development of LDCs;
• Assess the contribution of national cohesion, social integration and multinational corporations in governance and development of LDCs.

Course content

BA Governance & Development Level 7

• Communication Skills
• Basic Principles in Governance
• State - Society Relations in Development
• Alternative Development Approaches
• Politics of Development in Emerging Democracies
• Principles of Democracy and Development
• Global Governance and Politics
• Elements of Development Finance
• Principles of Social Entrepreneurship
• Power and Voice in Governance Discourses
• Sociology of Development
• Human Rights Theory and Practice
• Fundamentals of International Relations
• Discourses in Aid and Development in Africa
• Leadership in Governance
• NGOs and Development
• Political Economy of Governance and Development
• Field Practical Training
• Regional Integration and Citizen Participation
• Public Policy and Development
• Methods in Social Science Research
• Gender Perspectives in Development
• Research Project/Dissertation

BA Governance & Development Level 8

• Development Management
• Power and Decision making
• Multinational Corporations and Development
• Methods in Governance Research
• Contemporary Discourses in Natural Resource Governance
• Taxation for Development
• Issues in Urban Governance in Africa
• Measurement in Development
• National Cohesion and Social Integration
• Statistics for Development
• Feminist Leadership in Development

Target Group

This course is at Level 7 is intended for High school graduates who have qualified for university entry and want to build a specialized career in governance and development.

Level 8 is intended for those with ordinary degrees that would like to get a honours qualification. Staff of private, public and civil society organizations intent on developing in their careers in this lucrative sector as well as those who want to take their career to the next level are a core target.

Entry Requirements

BA Level 7 requires Ordinary Diploma (NTA Level 6) or Form VI with at least two principal and a subsidiary pass. Other equivalent qualifications are acceptable from other Africa Regional member states, as long as they are approved by NACTE.

BA Level 8 requires one to be a holder of NTA Level 7 in Governance and Development or any other Ordinary Bachelor of Arts Degree such as TCDC/Kimmage BA Development Studies.

Time frame

The BA Governance and Development Level 7 curriculum consists of twenty three (23) units that are spread over 4 semesters in two academic years plus field practical training and research. The Ordinary Bachelors degree takes a total of 2 academic years to complete.

Level 8 curriculum consists of eleven (11) modules that are spread over two semesters in one academic year. It is assumed that anyone enrolling at Level 8 must have written a research dissertation and assessed in field practical/ attachment. In total, it takes one years to qualify for the Bachelors with honours.

Costs: Tuition only is US$ 3,330

Dates: Enrolment open for any ongoing semester

Semester 4 (S4) intake 14-17: 18^th January – 8^th April 2016

Semester 2 (S2) intake 15-18: 8^th February – 18^th March 2016

Semester 3 (S3) intake 15-18: 4^th July – 12^th August 2016

Semester 5 (S5) intake 14-17: 1^st August – 9^th September 2016

Semester 1 (S1) intake 16-19: 10^th October – 18^th November 2016

To apply for the course please visit the website and download the application form and submit to our programme administrator through shemj@mstcdc.or.tz or send to our general contacts.

The application fee is Tsh 10,000 payable through JKUAT Account No: 3300451426 KCB BANK; ACCOUNT NAME: JKUAT ARUSHA CAMPUS.

Filled application forms with application fees can be sent to the Board of Postgraduate Studies, JKUAT, P.O.Box 62,000 – 00200 Nairobi, Kenya or to the programme administrator, P.O.Box 254 Arusha or by email, shemj@mstcdc.or.tz or call Tel.+255-27-2553837/8/9 or +255-754-651 715

Outcome Mapping

Course Code

OM

Course duration

1 Week

When is the Course

13th to 17th June 2016

28th November to 2nd December 2016

Course Objectives

The overall course objective is to equip participants with necessary skills, knowledge and attitude for doing Outcome Mapping as a new approach to Designing, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for development programs and organizations.

Course Content

Introduction to Outcome Mapping Approach

Intentional Design in OM (Boundary partners, Outcome Challenge, Progress Markers, Strategy Maps)

Outcome and Performance Monitoring in OM

Outcome Mapping Monitoring Tools (Outcome Journal, Strategy Journal and Performance Journal)

Evaluation Planning in Outcome Mapping and Outcome Harvesting

Integrating OM to logframe approach

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course participants will be able to:

Describe Outcome Mapping (OM) approach and its uniqueness compared to other Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation approaches

Describe Intentional Design in Outcome mapping

Identify boundary partners (BPs) and develop Outcome Challenges

Develop progress markers and strategy maps for boundary partners (BP)

Describe and develop Outcome Mapping monitoring tools (Outcome Journal, Strategy Journal and Performance Journal) using a case study

Describe how to conduct evaluation using Outcome Mapping approach (Outcome harvesting)

Integrate Outcome Mapping to logframe approach

Target Group

People with experience in M&E, people who and are doing and leading M&E processes in their organization, donors and Consultants in M&E who would like to try new approaches of doing M&E and especially for complex programs/projects. This course also targets those working in complex programs/environments where traditional M&E has not been effective.

Go to our website www.mstcdc.or.tz and download the application form to apply for the course

HRBA programming

Course Code

HRBA Pr

Course duration

1 Week

When is the Course

13th to 17th June 2016

17th to 21st October 2016

Course Objectives

The HRBA Programming course therefore aims at building the necessary skills to enable development programmers to design interventions that results into fulfillments of rights - skills in developing programs that empower people living in poverty and exclusion to know, assert and enjoy their rights.

Course Content

To use human rights principles in programming and designing development interventions

To facilitate communities to use human rights principles to effectively claim and enjoy their rights.

Planning HRBA work - Identifying, analyzing and contextualizing the violation, abuse and denial of human rights

Designing HRBA interventions - Intervening to promote and protect human rights – Strategies to promote and protect human rights

Monitoring and evaluating the interventions aimed at promoting and protecting human rights

Target Group

The course aims at benefiting managers and programme staff of CSO, programme Donor agencies, planning staff of government agencies at all levels.

Go to our website www.mstcdc.or.tz and download the application form to apply for the course
For further information please email mstcdc@mstcdc.or.tz

Public Policy & Research Skills

Course Code

PP&RS

Course duration

1 Week

When is the Course

6th to 10th June 2016

Course Objectives

To facilitate knowledge sharing leading to the understanding of the interaction between government and governance; politics and economics; and how these relate with public policy.

To transmit knowledge and skills for policy analysis, advocacy and research as well as strategically communicating findings to policy makers in a politically sensitive terrain.

Familiarize participants with the basic principles and methods of research, developing research hypotheses and action plans for policy research.

Course Content

Understanding Government and Governance

Understanding Advocacy

Public Policy: Its definition, policy cycle

Policy analysis, policy work in constrained political space,

Political economy of policy work.

Research Approaches and Types: Theory and practice

Learning outcomes

Participants to acquire skills and knowledge on how to:

Analyze public policies and use identified gaps to advocate for policy reforms

Design and carry out scientific research studies that can inform evidence based policy analysis

Utilize communication skills more strategically

Communicating Policy Research in a Politically Sensitive Political Terrain

Target Group

Public and Private sector leaders and programme staff whose work interacts with policy analysis and advocacy

Go to the website http://www.mstcdc.or.tz/application/application-public-policy-research-skills-0

Human rights based approach HRBA is about empowering people to know and claim their rights and increasing the ability and accountability of individuals and institutions who are responsible for respecting, protecting and fulfilling rights.

This means giving people greater opportunities to participate in shaping the decisions that impact on their human rights.

It also means increasing the ability of those with responsibility for fulfilling rights to recognize and know how to respect those rights, and make sure they can be held to account.

A human rights based approach is about ensuring that both the standards and the principles of human rights are integrated into policymaking as well as the day to day running of organizations.

Course Objectives

The HRBA Programming course therefore aims at building the necessary skills to enable development programmers to design interventions

that results into fulfillments of rights - skills in developing programs that empower people living in poverty and exclusion to know, assert and enjoy their rights.

Course Content

To use human rights principles in programming and designing development interventions

To facilitate communities to use human rights principles to effectively claim and enjoy their rights.

Planning HRBA work - Identifying, analyzing and contextualizing the violation, abuse and denial of human rights

Designing HRBA interventions - Intervening to promote and protect human rights – Strategies to promote and protect human rights

Monitoring and evaluating the interventions aimed at promoting and protecting human rights

Target Group

The course aims at benefiting managers and programme staff of CSO, programme Donor agencies, planning staff of government agencies at all levels.

To sign up for the course:http://www.mstcdc.or.tz/course/hrba-programming[www.mstcdc.or.tz]

Or visit our website for more:

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The overall aim of the course is to spur growth and success for Non-Profit Organisations by ensuring more

effective and productive ways of management. Participants who attend this training will be able to spur orgaisational

performance using effective NGO leadership frameworks, efficient resource management and creative management.

Learning Outcome

Participants who undertake this course will be able to;

· Explain the critical role of NGOs

· Undertake strategic and operational planning for NGOs

· Better communicate organisational goals, strategies and results to different stakeholders

· Establish and maintain an effective team

· Effectively monitor financial and programme compliance

· Monitor project outcomes

Results-Based Management [Project Design & Plans; Introduction to Approaches and Tools for Monitoring & Evaluating NGOs]

Target Group

The course is targeted for Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officers, middle management

and programme staff of organisations, and Organisational Development (OD) process practitioners

of Non-profit Organisations.

To sign up for the course go to: http://www.mstcdc.or.tz/course/ngo-management

For more courses visit www.mstcdc.or.tz

Many middle professionals have a wealth of experience at handling day to day management issues and are now ready for a bigger challenge. Are there extra skills they need to acquire to prepare them for the next level of leadership?

This five days module focuses on Manager as a leader and aims at creating a sustainable Leadership Pipeline Federation-wide which will be supported by robust Talent and Performance Management processes so as to identify potential leadership talent.

It will give you a real insight into what is Leadership and Management, how to lead yourself while Leading Others ways to successfully Lead an Organization and how to lead the Organization: Power and Feminist Leadership

Financial Management Toolkit for Training Middle Level Non-Finance Manager, Human Resources and last but not least, Governance and so much more.

Target Group

Typical role holders (includes but not limited to): Program Coordinators, Programme Manager, Senior Programme Officers, Project Coordinators, Sponsorship managers, HR Managers, M&E Advisers, - Senior Professionals, Subject Matter Experts, line managers.

To sign up for the course click on the link

http://www.mstcdc.or.tz/course/middle-managers-leadership-development-programme

Or Visit our website: http://www.mstcdc.or.tz/

Call us directly +255754651715

The course is meant for people who would like to work in M&E and people who would like to improve their practical experience in M&E including people leading/supervising M&E processes and practices in their organization. Also for people implementing programs/projects and M&E Consultants. The course addresses M&E for the entire results chain, including the all-important outcomes,knowledge and attitude necessary for effective and systematic monitoring and evaluation of development programs and projects.

And after the five day course you will receive a certificate for attendance.

Why choose this course

Delivered by our practitioners with extensive participatory field experience, you will get to see how it’s done through field experience.

Those responsible for project or programme-level M&E benefit from the latest M&E thinking and practice, including results approaches.

This course will enable you to bring the learning into practice and to understand the difference between data, information and knowledge which is a key aspect to ensure strategic decision making.

What You Will Learn

· Describe what monitoring and evaluation entails

· Develop log frame using project case study

· Design and use performance indicators relevant for their case projects

· Identify risks and assumptions in their case projects

· Describe key features in outcome mapping as an approach to monitoring and evaluation

· Develop M&E plan for their own case projects

· Design monitoring tools and conduct a monitoring exercise (field based)

What Do Our Participants Say

“MS-TCDC could not have provided me with a better continuing education experience. From the Interesting, thought provoking content

to the serene & beautiful environment of the campus, my week was educative, insightful, empowering, exciting & entertaining.

I definitely look forward to coming back here for more professional development.” Matilda from Uganda

“Absolutely relevant and totally professional.” Zila Kenya

“I have enjoyed my time at MSTCDC, the environment is quiet, & Suitable for learning, the trainings

are practical and very participatory". Malaika Tanzania

Apply Now for the course: http://www.mstcdc.or.tz/course/monitoring-evaluation-i

Visit our page: www.mstcdc.or.tz for more

Course Objectives

To enhance participants ability to deliver and demand a variety of mechanisms, schemes and approaches through which economic and social well-being can be attained and guaranteed. It is aimed at equipping them with tools for informativeness approach to Social Protection.

Learning Outcomes:
The participants will acquire a deeper knowledge of what is going on around social protection within and outside the region, what is happening globally to prepare them for proper engagement either as workers, groups who can demand or implement social protection policies using human rights lens.

Target Group

Programs staff/managers, community based organizations staff, co-coordinators and those in-charge of special projects and programs within NGOs or government agencies, development agencies and other CSO groups working in civil society organizations that work to ensure social justice and equal distribution of wealth.

Please sign up via he following online form: http://www.mstcdc.or.tz/course/monitoring-evaluation-comprehensive-course

Course Objectives

The course aims to give practicing and potential managers and supervisors a foundation for their formal development. It seeks to build essential knowledge and skills required for effective performance in the supervisory role. The course also provides an opportunity for participants to develop a range of techniques, personal qualities and attitudes essential for successful supervision and performance management.

Learning outcomes:

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Identify areas of improvement in their leadership and management styles in order to become more effective in their supervisory role.
• Demonstrate self-awareness, self-management and team work as they execute their roles and responsibilities
• Understand the performance management cycle and to effectively perform their role and responsibilities during the performance management process
• Develop skills of preventing, identifying and addressing conflicts at their workplaces.

Target Group

ActionAid staff, Senior and middle managers, Team leaders and newly appointed supervisors.

Please sign up via he following online form: http://www.mstcdc.or.tz/course/supervisory-and-management-skills-course

Course Objectives

To enhance participants ability to deliver and demand a variety of mechanisms, schemes and approaches through which economic and social well-being can be attained and guaranteed. It is aimed at equipping them with tools for trans-formative approach to Social Protection.

Learning Outcomes:
The participants will acquire a deeper knowledge of what is going on around social protection within and outside the region, what is happening globally to prepare them for proper engagement either as workers, groups who can demand or implement social protection policies using human rights lens.

Target Group

Programmer staff/managers, community based organizations staff, co-coordinators and those in-charge of special projects and programmer within NGOs or government agencies, development agencies and other CSO groups working in civil society organizations that work to ensure social justice and equal distribution of wealth

www.mstcdc.or.tz

http://www.mstcdc.or.tz/course/social-protection-course

Course Objectives

The overall objective of the course is to equip participants with skills, knowledge and attitude necessary for effective and systematic monitoring and evaluation of development programs and projects.

Learning Outcome

By the end of the course participants will be able to:

• Describe what monitoring and evaluation entails
• Develop log frame using project case study
• Design and use performance indicators relevant for their case project.
• Identify risks and assumptions in their case project
• Describe key features in outcome mapping as an approach to monitoring and evaluation

• Develop M&E plan for their own case projects

• Design monitoring tools and conduct a monitoring exercise (field based)

Target Group

The course is meant for people who would like to work in M&E and people who would like to improve their practical experience in M&E including people leading/supervising M&E processes and practices in their organization. Also for people implementing programs/projects and M&E Consultants.

Fee for the Course

Tuition only for this course is US$ 350 Only

For more information visit our website

www.mstcdc.or.tz

http://www.mstcdc.or.tz/course/monitoring-evaluation-i-course

Course Objectives

The overall objective of this 3 weeks course is to equip participants with skills, knowledge and attitude necessary for effective and systematic monitoring and evaluation of development programs and projects.

Learning outcomes
By the end of the course participants will be able to:

• Describe what monitoring and evaluation entails
• Develop logframe using project case study
• Design and use performance indicators relevant for their case projects
• Identify risks and assumptions in their case projects
• Describe key features in outcome mapping as an approach to monitoring and evaluation
• Develop M&E plan for their own case projects
• Design monitoring tools and conduct a monitoring exercise (field based)
• Describe impact evaluation and design evaluation terms of reference of a case project
• Develop evaluation plan/framework and design evaluation tools by using evaluation terms of reference of a case project
• Design participatory M&E data collection tools

• Use most significant change technique in M&E

  Target Group

  The course is meant for people who would like to work in M&E and people who would like to improve their practical experience in M&E including people leading/supervising M&E processes and practices in their organization. Also for people implementing programs/projects and M&E Consultants

For More Information please visit our website
www.mstcdc.or.tz

http://www.mstcdc.or.tz/course/monitoring-evaluation-comprehensive-course

The degree is a natural progression for practitioners and students with Advanced Level certificate and various Diplomas who would wish to take specialized degree in governance and development. Studies have proven that governance and accountability are vital ingredients to people centred development.
BA students in Governance and Development studies will be acquainted with practical skills thus be able to:
Apply principles of governance, democracy and development, leadership, and power and voice in governance to execute governance and development policies.Conduct development analysis required for sound decision-making for various national and international organizations.

Engage in advocating for human rights, women empowerment, decentralization approaches and state-society relations to administer social justice and rule of law in development functions
This are the future organizational leaders of Africa

To register directly go to http://www.mstcdc.or.tz/bachelor-arts-governance-and-development

For question and queries contact the Course Administrator Julian at shemj@mstcdc.or.tz

Course Objectives
This course aims to introduce participants to the principles of a rights-based approach to Policy Analysis and policy influencing through evidence based advocacy tools and processes.
By the end of this course
Participants will have acquired skills for policy analysis and advocacy in order to be able to apply course content to their country and organisation specific contexts, identify policy advocacy opportunities and work out strategies to engage with their public policy framework in their country and organisation contexts.

Target Group
The course is designed for governance and development actors from the following groups: non-governmental organizations, cooperatives and associations, community based organizations; farmers’ organizations and the media involved in or want to be involve in human rights based approach to policy formulation and implementation processes.

Course Content

• Introduction to public policy and governance
• Women rights and gender responsive public service delivery
• Introduction to policy research, analysis and advocacy
• Political economy and the role of neoliberalism
• National development priorities and the global development agenda
• Networking and lobbying for influencing policy change
• Stakeholder mapping and action for policy change

To Sign up for any of the courses know about the prices, accommodation and more go to http://www.mstcdc.or.tz/application/application-form-advocacy-and-policy-influencing-course

For further question or concerns on the course and any relatable matter write to the course administrator Suma directly to charless@mstcdc.or.tz

This course is a two-week program with a total of 60 hours of teaching including excursions and language immersion sessions. It focuses more on application of technical Swahili, various Swahili registers and enhances learners to participate in meetings and debates.

Course Objectives

To enhance participants communicate with ease and confidence in a large number of situations informal and formal, on a variety of concrete topics relating to work and leisure activities, as well as to current public events.

Course Content

Communication, health services, Social services, environment, global warming, politics in Tanzania, corruption in Tanzania, science and technology, East African cooperation, globalization.

Target Group

Development workers, missionaries, doctors, expatriates, researchers, tourists, students and anyone who requires learning Swahili language at advanced level.

Methodologies Interactive methods:-

• Communicative approach (Competence based approach)

• Immersion approach

• Task based approach

• Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling or (TPRS) approach

• Grammar approach & audio lingual approach

• Propriocepitve approach

To sign up for the course follow the link http://www.mstcdc.or.tz/application/swahili-advanced-course For more questions or concerns on the course and any relatable matter write to the course administrator Selina at laizers@mstcdc.or.tz

Course Objectives

The overall objective of the course is to equip participants with knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for appreciating the natural role and position of both men and women in society, understanding the current position and situation of women and youth in society in light of leadership, assess the challenges and opportunities for women in leadership, and equip participants with skills and tools necessary for creating an enabling environment for supporting women to join and succeed in leadership.

Course Content

• Introduction to women rights, leadership and the concept of feminism
• Where are the women leaders
• Do family responsibilities hold women back
• Is discrimination still a problem
• Do people resist women’s leadership
• Do women lead differently from men
• Do organizations and formal institutions compromise women’s leadership
• How do some women find their way to leadership
• How good are women leaders and what does their future hold

Target group

The course is designed for but not limited to women leaders, men and women seeking to support and increase women participation in leadership, gender and governance or women rights related programme managers and activists; local government staff and leaders, all practitioners working in civil society organizations, governmental agencies involved with governance and leadership.

Learning Outcome

By the end of the course participants will be able to:

• To consider and assess the trends, experiences and achievements of men and women leaders and shaping a discussion for the role of women in society and what the future looks like for women leaders.

To sign up for the course click on the below link:
http://www.mstcdc.or.tz/application/application-form-gender-leadership-course

For more information and questions about the course, contact the course administrator Herieth through noahh@mstcdc.or.tz