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 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 >>

Course Cost:€750 includes certification fees.

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This course is designed for governance and development policy practitioners in governmental, and non-governmental organizations and the media, anyone involved or active in evidence and research-based approaches to policy change and development options, policy formulation and implementation processes

Course Content

What You Will Learn – The Key Topics

• Introduction to public policy and governance – principles and practices
• 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
• Linking Policy Pronouncements to Financial Commitments
• Rights-based Social Accountability for Public Service Improvement
• Networking and lobbying for influencing policy change
• Stakeholder mapping and action for policy change

Learning Outcomes:

• Through practical cases and exercises, you will gain a critical understanding of the ways in which public policy, development options and political realities interact at the global, regional, national, and local levels.
• You will appreciate how political and corporate pressures limit policy choices in many countries, how policy choices in turn reshape local politics, and how policymakers function in the interplay of competing forces.
• You appreciate the role of policy analysis and budget scrutiny in shaping policy and development investment decisions, identify their potential for positive and negative impacts.
• You will appreciate the entry points and acquire new practical knowledge and tools for creative advocacy and aimed at policy influencing and change at various levels of policymaking and development choices in your own context.

How to register:

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The focus of this course is to make sure you know your rights, obligations and duties as a board member or director and you are able to practice “good board governance”. You will understand the purpose and role of good board governance practices, including the duties and responsibilities of board members, consensus on lines of communication and communication norms within and between board and management, what you should know about the organization, what could potentially go wrong (common causes of conflict), the ways to enhance functional collaboration and mutuality within the board and with management. **

Course Content:

• Introduction to Boards and Board Governance
• Basics of Governance in relation to Good Board Governance
• Board designs and structures in different organization types and levels
• The core mandate, roles, duties, rights and responsibilities of board members
• Board Decision Making Frameworks in different organizations
• Board relations with key stakeholders and why they are important
• Communication lines and norms within and between board and management
• Common causes of conflicts ways of maintaining mutuality

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the training, you will understand the purpose and role of good board governance practices, including the duties and responsibilities of board members, consensus on lines of communication and communication norms within and between board and management, what you should know about the organization, what could potentially go wrong (common causes of conflict), the ways to enhance functional collaboration and mutuality within the board and with management.

Target Group:

Board members, people aspiring to be board members and heads of organizations.

How to register:

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This course introduces program and project management practitioners to advanced practical tools, creative templates and practices vital for maintaining keen and consistent sight on progress throughout a project’s life cycle.

Course Content

What You Will Learn - The key Topics

• Introduction to evidence-based documentation of ‘best practices”
• M&E Tools and Practices useful for identifying Potential Best Practice Areas
• Steps in identifying, validating and documenting of “best practices”
• Research and evidence gathering for “documentation of best practices”
• Qualitative, quantitative approaches and tools for documenting best practices
• Use of M&E Data Collection methods, analysis for reporting of best practices
• Results based Management as applicable to the documentation of best practices
• Selecting, developing case studies and application of tools in real-life contexts
• Key strategies for promoting documented best practices for scale-up
• Using documented best practices to improve programming and policy change

Learning Outcomes

• You will acquire skills and knowledge and acquaint yourself with essential research and digital tools for collecting evidence as basis for documenting, communicating and promoting best practices, lessons learned, identifying “what works or doesn't, defining the pictures of success” and discovering opportunities for improvement, scale-up and expansion towards enhanced attainment of planned and expected results and impact, and effectively meeting identified needs of target audiences.
• You will also explore the interconnectivity between documented progress, project sustainability, relevance and viability and put forward practices that should be replicated or scaled up.
• You will learn how to identify and account for unintended outcomes (positive or negative), drawing recommendations on inspiring practices for future programming, policy decisions and funding/investment and what could have been or should be done differently – for the subsequent phases of projects.

Target Group:

Program and Project Management practitioners.

How to register:

To sign up for this course please fill the online application form

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This fundamentals course helps practitioners answer the central question of “how will you measure your project’s success?” The course will introduce you to the basics of monitoring and evaluation (M&E). You will learn how successful projects plan for data collection, management, analysis, and use. As you complete the course assignments, you will create an M&E plan for your own project.

Course Content:

What you will learn – the key topics

• Monitoring and Evaluation Concepts and Terms
• Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation
• Log frame as a Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation tool
• Hierarchy of Objectives (Impact, Outcomes and Outputs)
• Setting and Using Performance Indicators
• Assumptions and Risks Analysis
• Outcome Mapping as and Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
• Designing and Implementing M&E Plan
• Practical Monitoring Activity (field-based)

Target Group:

Practitioners who already working in development programming, monitoring, evaluation, impact, program quality and effectiveness. Whether you work in project management and leadership role in a development organization, donor agency, government department or regional and international organisations such as the African Union, EAC, COMESA, SADC, those working in the political arena, institutions of higher learning and research, and media and NGO sector professionals will find this course

How to register:

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You will get more familiar with advanced monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning tools, emerging practices and issues in monitoring and evaluation such as results-based management, results-based financing, impact assessment, outcome mapping and outcome harvesting.

Course Content

What You Will Learn – The Key Topics

• Evaluating programs/projects
• Results based Management Principles as applicable to M&E
• Outcome Mapping in Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
• Impact Assessment and Outcome Harvesting
• Results based Financing and Value for Money
• Designing Tools for Participatory M&E Data Collection
• Most Significant Change Technique
• Management Information Systems for M&E
• M&E Qualitative Data Analysis
• M&E Data Collection, Analysis and Reporting (Field based)

How to register:

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This course aims at enhancing participants' competence in basic spoken and written Swahili to enable the easy function in communities and at the workplace.

What You Will Learn – The Key Topics

• Swahili greetings
• Self-introduction
• Bargaining and buying at the market/shop
• Introducing family members/colleagues
• Talking about the present, past and future activities
• Swahili time telling and habitual activities
• Talking about others
• Talking about health problems
• Giving and receiving instructions/directions
• Booking for transport and safari

Target group

Development workers, missionaries, investors, expatriates, researchers, tourists, doctors, students and anyone who requires basic Swahili and culture at the beginners level.

Time

17hrs to 20hrs, Mondays to Friday

Mode of Delivery

This is a four-week program with a total of 60 teaching hours, 3 hours every evening, the participant will meet with the trainer for a face-to-face online tutorial which includes short lectures, discussion, exercises and language games. Participants will receive other learning material a week prior to the course.

How to register:

To sign up for the course follow the link http://mstcdc.or.tz/swahili-online-sign-language-course

For more questions or concerns on the course and any relatable matter write to the course administrator Selina at laizers@mstcdc.or.tz

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This course aims at enhancing the participant’s competence in spoken and written Swahili in different settings.

What You Will Learn – The Key Topics

• Exchanging Swahili greetings
• Transport systems in Tanzania
• Family structure in Tanzania
• Tanzania natural resources
• Tanzania weather condition and agricultural activities
• Businesses in Tanzania
• Health system in Tanzania
• The education system in Tanzania
• Community development projects in Tanzania
• Tanzania government office procedures
• Conducting official meetings in Tanzania,
• Expressing emotions
• Sport and other recreational activities in Tanzania

Target group

Participants who have completed Swahili beginners level, development workers, missionaries, investors, expatriates, researchers, tourist, doctors, students and anyone who requires Swahili at Intermediate level

Time:

17hrs to 20hrs, Mondays to Friday

Mode of Delivery

This is a four-week program with a total of 60 teaching hours, 3 hours every evening, the participant will meet with the trainer for a face-to-face online tutorial which includes short lectures, discussion, exercises and language games. Participants will receive other learning material a week prior to the course.

How to register:

To sign up for the course follow the link http://mstcdc.or.tz/swahili-online-sign-language-course

For more questions or concerns on the course and any relatable matter write to the course administrator Selina at laizers@mstcdc.or.tz

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Duration: 3 Weeks

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.

Course Content

Week 1:

• Monitoring and Evaluation Concepts and Terms
• Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation
• Logframe as a Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation tool
• Hierarchy of Objectives (Impact, Outcomes and Outputs)
• Setting and Using Performance Indicators
• Assumptions and Risks Analysis
• An introduction to Outcome Mapping as an Approach to Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
• Designing and Implementing M&E Plan
• Practical Monitoring Activity (field based)

Week 2:

• Evaluating programs/projects
• Results based Management Principles as applicable to M&E
• Outcome Mapping as an Approach to Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
• Impact Assessment and Outcome Harvesting
• Results based Financing and Value for Money
• Designing Tools for Participatory M&E Data Collection
• Most Significant Change Technique
• Management Information Systems
• Qualitative Data Analysis
• M&E Data Collection, Analysis and Reporting (Field based)

Week 3:

• Basic introduction to SPSS package

• Questionnaire Coding and development of SPSS Coding Sheet (Variable view),

• Data Entry and Data Cleaning

• Basic Data Analysis using SPSS

• Presentation of Data

Learning Outcome:

By the end of the training, 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 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

• Appreciate MIS in programs/projects and organizations

• Analyze qualitative data using a case study

• Collect M&E data and write report on the same (practical based/field based).

• Analyze quantitative data using SPSS package.

Target Group

People who work in Programming and programme quality, M&E and Accountability roles, 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

How to register:

To sign up for this course please fill the online application form

Should you prefer to learn as a group of employees/organisation, or professionals, we offer tailor-made courses at your convenience. Email us your specific learning needs.

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Email: communications@mstcdc.or.tz

WhatsApp: +255 748 068 374

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