OBGP 2040 - Designing Relief Projects in Conflict and Disaster Settings

Through the lens of a humanitarian project, this course is intending to build students skills in how to apply project management tools. The course will start with an introduction to the humanitarian system and interventions, as well as the environment in which relief projects are designed and implemented. Students are therefore not expected to have previous knowledge of the aid world.

The course will then move on to describing and explaining the successive steps of project cycle management : situation analysis, response design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. The classic tools used in the aid sector will be introduced step by step during lectures, and will be applied during workshops to a specific relief project that students will progressively design in groups.

Learning Outcomes

1. Practice decision making when limited data is available

2. Collect and analyse secondary data

3. Design a humanitarian project

Professional Skills

1. Project Management

2. Team Work

3. Problem solving

Hélène JUILLARD

Séminaire

English

- Face to face lecture: 12 hours

- Group work in class: 8 hours

- Autonomous group work: 4 hours a week/ 48 hours a semester

- Online self-paced e-learning: 3 hours

- Final defense: 1 hour

- Individual research for the project design: about 6,5 hours a week/ 78 hours a semester

None.

Autumn and Spring 2023-2024

- Written: Final project proposal as a group mark, 60% of the final mark

- Oral: Group Workshop presentations during Session 3: 10% of the final mark (average of the two class presentations)

Individual mark during the final defence of the project: 20% of the final mark

Individual mark of the overall participation during the semester: 10% of the final mark

The workshops in class are the opportunities to answer project specific questions and give dedicated feedback. There is also a formative assessment following Session 3 where each group has the possibility to submit its logical framework to receive detailed written feedback on it.