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Strategic Project Management for Development

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About

The Strategic Project Management for Development course offered by Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies will help participants learn how to achive meaningful development results via a deep understanding of the needs of the beneficiaries and a solid engagement with the stakeholders concerned.

Overview

What you will study:

During the entire project cycle, project management practices must be adapted to reflect the complexity of social change and to translate proposals into actions that improve communities’ development and deliver positive change within the time and resources available.

The objectives of the Strategic Project Management for Development course offered by Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies are:

  • Successfully design, implement, monitor and evaluate a development project in changing and complex contexts
  • Create tangible and sustainable change in collaboration with your stakeholders
  • Gain deep understanding on how to engineer, steer and evaluate social change

Programme Structure

The program focuses on:

  • Project management according to Project Cycle Management and Results-Based Management frameworks
  • Understand the challenge(s), assess the context and analyse the stakeholders
  • Choose the right operational strategy: from the theory of change to the logical framework
  • Tools and practices for adaptive project implementation
  • Elaborate the budget of a development project
  • Develop management operational tools: calendar, monitoring plan, risk management system, project governance, and communication plan
  • How to design and conduct an evaluation
  • Learn how to connect the theory of change and the evaluation framework
  • Scoping the evaluation approach and framework
  • Zoom in on impact evaluations and its methodological implications
  • Conduct an evaluation from the Terms of Reference to the final report

Key information

Duration

  • Full-time
    • 2 days

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

English

Credits

3 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

What students do after studying

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Student insurance

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  • Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
  • Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
  • Liability
  • Home contents and baggage
  • Accidents
  • Legal aid

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Other requirements

General requirements

Development practitioners, freelance consultants, evaluators, heads or field officers from multilateral or bilateral agencies, donors, NGOs, charities, foundations, international organisations in charge of:

  • Designing and performing quality control of development projects
  • Managing and overseeing the implementation of projects
  • Reviewing, monitoring and evaluating projects

Tuition Fee

To always see correct tuition fees
  • International

    2200 CHF/full
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 2200 CHF for the full programme during 2 days.
  • National

    2200 CHF/full
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 2200 CHF for the full programme during 2 days.
  • 1  module: CHF 800
  • All 3 modules: CHF 2'200

Living costs for Genève

1925 - 2850 CHF /month
Living costs

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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