Background: The recent years have witnessed a growing understanding of the links between conflict and development, and the role that humanitarian assistance and development can play in challenging or, unintentionally, exacerbating the root causes of violent conflicts. Violent conflicts are, unfortunately, a common feature in our region. This makes it imperative for all the actors working in the region to develop in-house capacities and competencies to mainstream peace building and conflict prevention/transformation in their strategies and programmes.
It is against this background that MS-TCDC, in response to an increasing demand from NGOs and CBOs in the region, is offering this course. The course has developed from Methods for Moving from Relief to Development in 2004, to Post-conflict Development in 2005 to its current status. It seeks to offer a comprehensive package based on the needs expressed by those working with countries in the region which are experiencing or have experienced conflicts or deal with refugees. Cases are drawn from East Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region.

Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, the participants will have enhanced their knowledge and skills in Peace Building, crisis prevention and conflict management for the promotion of social justice.
Course Content:
• Types and Sources of Conflicts
• Approaches to Conflict Resolution and Conflict Management
• Strategies for Crisis Prevention
• Assessing local capacities for peace
• Strategies for building local democracies for sustainable peace
• The role of advocacy in Peace Building and conflict managementUnderstanding conflict/conflict analysis

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

Module I: Objective
By the end of this module, participants will be able to understand the role of development organisations in democracy building; strategic plans, tools for advocacy; results based management for programmes and projects, and techniques for resource mobilisation.

Module II: Objective
By the end of this module, participants will be able to discuss and conceptualise challenges facing development organisations; organisational design, management functions and skills, transformative leadership and human resource management.

Course Content:
Module 1
• The role of development organisations in development
• Strategic planning and internal governance issues
• Approaches to fundraising and resource mobilisation
• Advocacy tools, policy and practices
• Result based management techniques
Module II
• Key concepts in designing and structuring a development organisation; stakeholder values, participation and managing relations
• Management functions, facilitation working skills, teambuilding, managing conflict and transformative leadership
• Recruitment and human resource management practices