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| May |
- Training course – ‘Evaluating the Quality of humanitarian projects’, postponed to 19-23 May 2008, Plaisians, France
This 5-day course will take place in the training centre at Groupe URD’s headquarters. The course looks at evaluation (definition, phases, types…) with regard to the Quality of humanitarian action.
It is organised around a full case study based on real experiences in the field.
The course is aimed at Programme managers, Project managers, M&E managers, evaluators and all other positions in the humanitarian sector involved in project management.
Language : French.
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| February |
- Quality COMPAS and Dynamic COMPAS, 4 – 8 February in Plaisians
This 5-day training course (in FRENCH) will be held in Groupe URD’s headquarters and training centre. It will deal with quality management of humanitarian projects and will be based on the Dynamic COMPAS software developed by Groupe URD. Its main topics are :
- basic project management
- using the Dynamic COMPAS to manage a project (based on a case study)
- project evaluation (based on a case study)
This course has been designed for national and international aid workers involved in project management activities like needs assessment, design, monitoring, self-evaluation and evaluation.
Programme
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| January |
- A training course in Management tools and methods for NGOs, 7-10 January 2008, Lisbon
This training course in English, which is aimed at humanitarian actors, is part of the Quality Project in Portugal.
Timetable of activities (in English)
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| December |
- Quality COMPAS and Dynamic COMPAS, Kabul, 2-5 December 2007
The course will be conducted in English and is aimed at humanitarian actors.
Project and information management is essential to ensure the quality of humanitarian projects. Many of the weaknesses which have been identified in projects do not come from a lack of technical knowledge on the part of humanitarian actors but rather because qualitative factors have not been properly taken into account.
Drawing its content from the COMPAS method, the course will cover subjects such as conducting a situation analysis which goes further than a simple needs analysis, project design beyond the logical framework, defining objectives and indicators in keeping with all the project criteria, developing and implementing a system to monitor the quality of a project, the difference between monitoring and evaluation, etc. The course is organised around a case study which gives participants practical experience of quality management and using the COMPAS method and software.
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| November |
- Capacity building training course for Oxfam and its partners in Niger to improve management of the link between emergency relief and development and the quality of humanitarian action, from 26 to 30 November in Niamey.
- Quality COMPAS and Dynamic COMPAS training course in Madrid, 12-15 November
A training course on how to use the Quality COMPAS and the Dynamic COMPAS, a quality and information management method and software program for humanitarian projects, will take place from the 12th to the 15th of November 2007 in Madrid.
The course is organised in collaboration with IECAH.
The course program can be consulted on the IECAH web site.
Invitation in Spanish
- Quality COMPAS© and Dynamic COMPAS® training course, 6 - 9 November in Dakar.
A short course presenting the Quality COMPAS method and the Dynamic COMPAS software programme for quality and information management in humanitarian projects will be held from 6 to 9 November 2007, in Dakar.
This course will be conducted in French and is aimed at humanitarian actors.
Project and information management are key to ensuring the quality of humanitarian projects. Projects have weaknesses not because humanitarian actors lack technical knowledge but rather because there has been a failure to take the qualitative aspects of the project into account.
The course will present the COMPAS method and will cover topics such as situation assessment which goes into more depth than simply evaluating needs, project design which goes further than the logical framework, drawing up of objectives and indicators in connection with the project criteria, the difference between monitoring and evaluation, etc. The course is designed around a case study which gives participants practice in managing the quality of a project and using the COMPAS (method and software).
A great number of applications have been received for this course. The twenty places originally available were filled very quickly and a second session was organised. Both sessions are now full and we regret that we are unable to accept any further applications.
However, if this course interests you, please do not hesitate to contact Pierre Brunet, our training organiser. If there is enough demand, we may be able to organise further sessions in the area.
In the meantime, we suggest can
- Consult our training programme on our web site
- Download the Dynamic COMPAS® and the User’s Guide from the Quality COMPAS© web site. |
October |
- "Evaluation of Quality in humanitarian projects" , 15 -19 October (Only available in French)
A new course for professional humanitarians at Groupe URD’s head office in Plaisians (Drôme Provençale).
- Groupe URD contributed to the training course organised by the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) and SIDA at the Sida Civil Society Centre in Sweden, 17-19 October. Presentations were made on quality and participation.
- Evaluation of the projects run by Planète Urgence, 1 au 6 octobre 2007
A course in evaluating humanitarian action adapted to the specific needs of Planète Urgence using a case study based on one of the organisation’s actual projects.
Course for 8 people (1 programme director and 7 heads of operations) split into two groups of 4. This is a 20-hour course. |
| July |
- Evaluation training organised by IECAH in Barcelona (13 juillet)
- ICRC training in Kenya (from 21 June to 4 July) |
| June |
-‘Evaluating the quality of humanitarian projects’ (25 - 29 June 2007)
8 highly experienced participants took part in this course (from ASMAE, Intermon-Oxfam, Globalitaria, MSF-Belgique, the Ivory Coast Ministère de la Pêche, Danish Refugee Council, ECHO Lebanon, and an independent agent).
- Training in evaluation organised by IECAH in Madrid
- Quality COMPAS and Dynamic COMPAS training for Madera in Afghanistan |
| May |
- Training of army personnel in England (Joint Services Command and Staff College)
Four days of training were given to European army officers and a few officers from the Gulf as part of the CJEX (Combined Joint European Exercice). The aim of this course was to encourage the military to take humanitarian issues into account when planning their actions, and notably the danger of blurring the lines between humanitarians and the military.
- ICRC training – Colombia
A manual , ‘Zonas Prioritarias’, was written in connection with this course on the basis of large scale consultation of key delegates of the ICRC team in Colombia (coordinators, delegation heads, national teams, etc.).
- Workshop at Paris Dauphine University:
Development issues workshop, as part of the ‘Solidarité’ DU
- Workshop at Aix en Provence University:
Evaluation workshop, as part of the ‘droit et action humanitaire’ Masters
- Seminary in Plaisians for students of Paris XII Val de Marne University
As is the case each year, the students of the ‘Gestion de l’Humanitaire’ Masters from Créteil came to Plaisians, this time for ten days of training. In addition to the usual classes on nutrition, security in the field, accounting, strategic analysis of the landscape etc., modules on IHL and Quality were introduced. |
| April |
- Linking relief and development at Humacoop and l’Ecole 3A
- International Humanitarian Law for the IEDES of Paris I university |
| March |
- Quality COMPAS and Dynamic COMPAS, 26 - 30 March in Plaisians
- Evaluation workshop as part of the Master « Agro-tropicale » Sup-Agro Montpellier (12 - 14 March).
- Linking relief and development workshop for the Institut de Médecine Tropicale du Service de Santé des Armées (IMTSSA) in Marseille (16 March)
- Workshop at the OECD (27 March)
- Training for OECD managers and member country representatives in connection with the ‘peer reviews' system that the OECD has been putting in place for humanitarian programmes over the last two years. This was an opportunity to address the issue of coherence between the position of funding agencies and the status of countries which have signed international conventions, and to propose some tools to evaluate the quality of programmes.
- Participation and Quality workshop in Sweden (29 March)
This workshop was given as part of the " Advanced training for Humanitarian Action " (ATHA) event organised by SIDA Sweden and Harvard. |
| February |
- Quality management and Linking Relief and Development, Palestine
OXFAM Solidarité Belgium and OXFAM Netherlands asked Groupe URD to provide training for their Palestinian partners. |
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