MANAGING PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS (HPM TRAINING) - October 15th to November 2nd 2012, Lyon, France

Objective : To enable participants to choose and apply appropriate tools to manage all stages of the project cycle in humanitarian contexts.

Upon completing the training, participants will have developed the capacity to:

• Describe specific features of humanitarian situations as contexts for implementation
• Define strategic, programmatic and operational levels of humanitarian action
• Explain the purpose of the Project Cycle Management (PCM) approach
• Outline steps in the Project Cycle
• Describe essential tools and methods for PCM
• Summarise critical thinking on PCM
• Describe strategies for integrating quality and accountability in PCM"
• Describe the purpose of assessments in the project cycle
• Describe appropriate assessment methodologies and tools
• Critically appraise an assessment report
• Explain how quality and accountability may be promoted during this stage"
• Define indicators and describe their importance and use in project management
• List common data-collection tools for assessments, monitoring and evaluation
• Demonstrate how to conduct a semi-structured interview and a focus-group discussion
• Describe methods for managing data and information: within projects and programmes and between organisations
• Describe the purpose of planning in the project cycle
• Explain the logic of the Log frame
• Build the main elements in the Log frame; Critically appraise the quality and logic of a project plan
• Draw links with the implementation and Monitoring & Evaluation steps
• Explain how quality and accountability may be promoted during this stage"
• Describe the purpose of Monitoring & Evaluation in the project cycle
• Explain the difference between Monitoring & Evaluation
• Describe the evaluation cycle
• List and define the evaluation criteria
• Identify and apply selected evaluation tools
• Describe and design the main elements of the ToRs for an evaluation
• Explain how quality and accountability may be promoted during this stage

The HPM programme contributes to reinforce and develop managers' core capacities (managing projects, people and funds) in a practical, coherent and transversal way, integrating the main worldwide quality and accountability initiatives developed in recent years. The HPM objective is to give participants a comprehensive knowledge of each initiative and their specificities, as well as the possibility to integrate each of them in a complementary and innovative way within the organisation's strategy and management practices.

Designed to develop management skills to enhance quality and accountability of humanitarian programmes, the HPM training programme:

• Focuses on the Humanitarian Programme Manager's 3 core competencies: managing people and organisations, managing programmes and projects, managing finance and funding;
• Offers 3-week competency-based modules for each of the core competencies;
• Ensures in-depth understanding of the sector and its evolutions through an additional one-week module on the Framework of Humanitarian Aid;
• Integrates capacity building through a one week Training of Trainers session;
• Offers professional recognition and links to Masters programmes for further specialization.