OBGP 2040 - Designing Relief Projects in Conflict and Disaster Settings

This course is intending to develop students’ ability to design, manage, and monitor projects using humanitarian settings as a case scenario. The course is structured as per the different steps of the project cyle : situation and response analysis, project design, monitoring and evaluation.

The course introduces the main tools of project management and result based management, which students then operationalise, in group, to develop their own original relief project. The course provides a preliminary introduction to the humanitarian system and key stakeholders hence no prior knowledge of the humanitarian sector is required.

Learning Outcomes

• Practice decision making when limited data is available
• Collect and analyse secondary data
• Design a humanitarian project

Professional Skills

• Project Management
• Team Work
• Problem solving

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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.

• Written: Final project proposal as a group mark, 50% of the final mark
• Oral: Group Workshop presentations during Session 3: 20% 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

• 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