Course Objectives: By the end of the course, participants will have the knowledge and skills to design and use appropriate organisational business performance management systems. Participants will look at and practice new tools and techniques for managing organisational performance.
Course Content:
* Relating organisational goals and objectives to organisational business performance (Critical Success Factor & Critical Competency Area Model)
* The role of organisational design, systems, structures and work processes in organisational business performance excellence
* Organisational business performance frameworks & tools: Balanced Scorecards, Excellence models (Leavitt), TQM, and BPR/BPI (Business Process Reengineering/ Improvement)
* Linking organisational goals and objectives to individual targets and HR supporting processes like appraisals, career and competency frameworks, a.o
* Management Information Systems (making your management information efficient with IT & Dataware house systems)

Course Objectives: By the end of the course, participants will have the knowledge and skills to manage complex financial systems and procedures in a cost effective and accountable manner

Course Content:
* Overview of financial management;
* Audit and assurance engagements in development organisations
* Financial management strategies for development organisations
* Current issues, trends and controversies in financial reporting
* Development organisations governance
* Social accounting and responsibility
* Fraud and anti –corruption measures
* Civic Engagement in the budget process- Participatory Public Expenditure Management

Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will have enhanced their skills in conflict resolution, crisis prevention, and peace building for the promotion of safe and just communities.
Course Content:
• Historical perspective of peace and conflict
* Types, sources and concepts of conflict, conflict resolution and peace building
* Strategies, principles, approaches and frameworks for conflict prevention, resolution and management
* Engendering conflict and peace building
* Relief, Rehabilitation and Development - The challenges of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
* Democratic peace building processes (disarmament; demobilization;’ reintegration) and good governance

23 May - 3 June 2011
14 - 25 November 2011

Background: Development projects are a crucial undertaking of NGOs and CBOs which need to be designed as instruments of interventions taking into account the socio-economic and political environment. Furthermore, the complexity of designing the operational management and implementation systems of development project calls for technical skilled project teams. Therefore, managing development oriented project needs practitioners with both technical and personal skills to successfully manage and implement them.
It is for this reason that MS-TCDC has developed the course on Project Planning and Management, focusing on the technical and personal skills needed in project design and implementation systems. It aims at providing a systematic framework for addressing development project issues and challenges.

Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will be better in responding to development challenges in a systematic manner, putting people at the centre of their project design, implementation and monitoring work.
Course Content:
* Participatory project planning including Logical Framework Approach
* Stakeholders’ interest and influence
* Participatory situational analysis
* Project strategy development
* Project cycle management
* Organising a participatory monitoring and evaluation system
* Management structures and the competent project manager
* Project proposal writing and reporting

4 - 15 July 2011

Single room US$ 1350
Shared double US$ 1140
(incl. Tuition and full board)

Course Objectives: By the end of the course participants will have acquired skills and knowledge about Rights-Based Approaches and their implications for and use in designing, implementing and monitoring projects/programmes. Participants will be confident in using the rights based framework and a number of tools and techniques for people-driven development

Course Content:
* Introduction to human rights, key concepts and rights based thinking.
* Analytical frameworks, methods and tools for rights based programming
* Designing intervention strategies for poor and marginalised groups – especially women in development
* Participatory techniques for Empowerment: STAR, REFLECT and CREST
* Implementing a rights based project / programme
* Monitoring tools for a rights based project / programme

11 - 16 April 2011
24 - 28 Oktober 2011

Course Objectives: By the end of the course, participants will have developed an understanding of gender and other related concepts; obtained knowledge about the key principles of gender mainstreaming; explored power relations and barriers to asserting rights by marginalised groups as well as acquire skills in gender analysis and gender budgeting.

Course Content:
* Basic concepts and key principles of Gender Mainstreaming
* Gender analysis and analytical tools
* Gender and Policy analysis
* Gender and human rights
* Gender budgeting
* “Engendering” development processes and programmes

18 - 22 July 2011

1 - 12 August 2011