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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
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Language
English
Credits
3 ECTS
Delivered
On Campus
Campus Location
- Genève, Switzerland
Disciplines
Project Management View 3 other Short Courses in Project Management in SwitzerlandWhat students do after studying
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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.
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
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Tuition Fees
Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents2650 CHF / full≈ 2650 CHF / full -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents2650 CHF / full≈ 2650 CHF / full
Additional Details
- 1 module: CHF 950
- 2 modules: CHF 1'900
- All 3 modules: CHF 2'650
Living costs
Genève
Switzerland
1925 - 2850 CHF / month
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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