The Management for Development Foundation
PO Box 430
6710 BK Ede
The Netherlands

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Email: mdf@mdf.nl
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Courses on this page:    Organisational Development for Advisers and Consultants
Group Facilitation
Managing International Partnerships
Human Resource Management in an International Context
Project and Programme Management
Management Course for Development Practitioners
Project Cycle Management Course
New Architecture of Aid
Networking in Development
Advocacy and Policy Influencing 2: Improving your practice

Course Title Organisational Development for Advisers and Consultants
Institution Ede: The Management for Development Foundation
Country The Netherlands
Type Certificate / Short Course (up to 3 months)
Topics Management: Human Resources Development
Management: NGO Management
Language English
Degree, Credits
Location Ede
Objectives/
Content

Organisation Development is a learning process that is directed towards improved performance and sustainability of the organisation as a whole. This learning and growth process often requires assistance of an internal or external professional, called the adviser or consultant. In this course you will learn how to design and guide an organisational learning process, from the intake up to the implementation of change.

Next Beginning

6 - 17 June 2011
4 - 15 June 2012

Duration 2 weeks
Participants'
Profile

Executive officers, board members and managers of non-governmental and private sector organisations with at least five years of experience in management positions, who feel comfortable with their daily routine and regular management tasks, but seek to become and remain a learning organisation together with the matching leadership qualities and style. Advisors to managers are also most welcome, but the course does not focus on the advisors’ role.

Course fee

€ 3,550.00

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Course Title Group Facilitation
Institution Ede: The Management for Development Foundation
Country The Netherlands
Type Certificate / Short Course (up to 3 months)
Topics Management: Human Resources Development
Language English
Degree, Credits
Location Ede, The Netherlands
Objectives/
Content

This five-day course will assist you to create real added value as a workshop or team facilitator. It broadens and improves your personal interaction skills, provides insights into the underlying dynamics and techniques of participative group processes, and offers methods and tools for different categories of participative decision-making events.

You will intensively practise group interaction skills while facilitating simulated workshops and meetings, using a variety of different workshop methods and procedures. You will receive personal feedback to help strengthen and improve your skills. And you will learn effective techniques to analyse the needs of groups and subsequently to design powerful workshops and meetings to respond to these needs.

Within the course, you will be:
• made aware of your own strengths and challenges in facilitating a group;
• able to apply communication skills: when and how to use many tools for interaction, and to recognise and plan for the different phases in group decision-making;
• be made aware of different methods to gather diverse points of views, to create common understanding and to develop inclusive solutions;
• able to identify and analyse the gap that the participants need to bridge during the workshop and to choose appropriate workshop methods, instruments and tools;
• able to design and facilitate powerful meetings and workshop events;
• aware of the different roles of a facilitator, an adviser and a trainer, and your own potentials as a facilitative manager.

In addition to personal skill and competency development, the course includes information on the different kinds of participative workshops and covers a number of different methods and procedures in detail.

Next Beginning

6 - 10 June 2011
12 - 16 December 2011

Duration 5 days
Participants'
Profile
Team leaders, development workers, consultants, trainers and technical advisers who prepare and facilitate meetings and workshops.
Course fee 1980.- €
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Course Title Managing International Partnerships
Institution Ede: The Management for Development Foundation
Country The Netherlands
Type Certificate / Short Course (up to 3 months)
Topics Management: Intercultural Communication
Management: Human Resources Development
Management: Communications Skills and Teaching Methods
Language English
Degree, Credits
Location The Netherlands
Objectives/
Content
Course Objectives: You will gain insight in how your way of working affects the problems that you meet, and ways to improve your way of working. You will also have ideas on how to create learning relationships with partners overseas. You will experience how you can communicate difficult issues to tackle misunderstandings and unintended irritations.

Course Contents: The course deals with common dilemmas and issues faced in international partnerships. These dilemma’s cover a wide range of topics, including financial accountability, formal or informal agreements, individual or multiple partnerships, exchange of learning events, varying value systems, differences in the organisational environment, hierarchical differences, mutual benefits of collaboration.

Next Beginning 23 Nov 2009 - 25 Nov 2009
Duration 3 days
Participants'
Profile
Managers, desk officers and others in North and South who work on international partnerships on a day to day basis. The cases will mainly focus on the role of desk officers in a funding organisation in the North and the role of the recipient organisation in the South, mainly the manager.
Methods The course offers practical, hands on experience and reflection with a mix of working methods in a stimulating environment. Specific interests and needs of participants are inventorised at the start of the course and will be given a place in the programme where possible. There are opportunities for practical exercises, simulations and role plays, with individual and group feedback and reflection. Video is used where relevant to offer a mirror for such reflection.
Course fee 1320 €
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Course Title Human Resource Management in an International Context
Institution Ede: The Management for Development Foundation
Country The Netherlands
Type Certificate / Short Course (up to 3 months)
Topics Management: Human Resources Development
Language English
Degree, Credits
Location Ede, The Netherlands
Objectives/
Content

People are the most valuable asset to an organisation or institution. This Human Resource Management course focuses on the performance of staff in the context of continuously changing international challenges and operations. The improvement of staff motivation and performance requires a system tailored to your organisation and its cultural values, image, market position, available resources and national regulations. This course will familiarise you with different strategies, systems and approaches towards performance management of the staff in your organisation. Ultimately this will lead to a better use of the right people in the right place, working in better functioning organisations.

Course objectives:
This course will expand your knowledge of systems and tools for Human Resource Management in development organisations. You will leave the course with defined proposals to improve the HRM within your own organisation and you will have improved your own skills to execute this strategy.

Course contents:
This course will give you the opportunity to focus on the development of the personal skills needed in HRM such as communication, selection and review, cross-cultural and coaching skills. It will also look into the more strategic role of the HR manager in the organisation, the cultural context, staff motivation and developing job profiles.

Next Beginning

6 - 10 June 2011
21- 25 November 2011

Duration 1 week
Participants'
Profile
You are a national or international operating manager or project coordinator responsible for human resources, a staff member of a human resource or personnel department or an adviser involved in developing of, or advising on human resources for development organisations or projects.
Methods Through an interactive forum participants will be able to reflect on presented models and systems and exchange experiences and ideas with international colleagues and trainers. The course will take examples from daily practices from the participants.
Course fee € 1,980.00
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Course Title Project and Programme Management
Institution Ede: The Management for Development Foundation
Country The Netherlands
Type Certificate / Short Course (up to 3 months)
Topics Management: Strategic Project Management
Health Research and Methods
Language English
Degree, Credits
Location Ede, The Netherlands
Colombo
Objectives/
Content

The challenges of the modern Programme Manager are many and diverse; Ensuring the right programme focus in an ever-changing context with many players and needs; Mobilising and enabling the right implementing partners that often work at great distance; Monitoring programme results in light of achievements at project level and beyond-Just to name a few. To be effective the Programme Manager needs to be equipped with the right combination of systematic tools and personal skills to face these challenges with success. This is exactly what the Programme Management course sets out to do.

Course objectives: At the end of the course you are:
Familiarised with a systematic approach towards programme design and management in consultation with multiple stakeholders.
Understanding why and how to build and maintain relations with programme partners.
Better able to design and use programmatic monitoring systems that complement the monitoring at project level.
More confident about your own personal skills in managing or guiding the work of others.

Next Beginning 22 August - 2 September 2011
Duration 2 weeks
Participants'
Profile
You are a project/programme manager, fund coordinator or manager responsible for the success of programmatic development interventions by facilitating or guiding the implementation by others, (often at distance). You have 3 to 5 years prior experience and are interested in strengthening or expanding your management toolbox and honing your personal management skills.
Methods Throughout this course, the emphasis is on participatory learning, whereby project management theory is linked to day-to-day practice. You will have the opportunity to check ideas, discuss problems and compare your approaches in a forum of colleagues and trainers.
Course fee € 3,130.00
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Course Title Management Course for Development Practitioners
Institution Ede: The Management for Development Foundation
Country The Netherlands
Type Certificate / Short Course (up to 3 months)
Topics Management: NGO Management
Management: Strategic Project Management
Language English
Degree, Credits
Location The Netherlands
Objectives/
Content

Development actions, either projects or programmes, are strongly influenced by the wider environment in which they operate. Consequently, the responsibilities and tasks of the manager are broad and multi-faceted. They include key issues like communication with stakeholders, dealing with uncertainty, staff performance management, facilitating organisational learning, and monitoring & evaluation. The main challenge of today's successful manager is to have a broad perspective and to cope with these multitudes of tasks and responsibilities. This four-week course will equip you with the necessary management tools and skills to be a successful manager in a broader development setting.

Course objectives:
This 4-week course will provide you with a selection of management theories, concepts, instruments and skills that will help you to improve your performance as manager. We will create time for personal coaching, feedback and self-reflection concerning your management skills. By the end of the course you will have developed a concrete personal action plan that will serve as a guide to implement the desired changes.

Course contents:
Management responsibilities are highlighted from three angles: (1) the phase of the life cycle of a project/programme, (2) the context in which the organisation operates, and (3) the roles and skills of a manager.
You will be introduced to various models helping you to improve the process of project planning. You will learn how to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of your organisation and to assess which external factors influence the performance of your project. You will know how to set up a monitoring & evaluation system to keep track of the achievements and how to prepare the terms of reference for the evaluation of your project. You will get insight in your personal management style and learn more about managing conflicts, giving effective presentations and negotiations.

Next Beginning 19 September - 14 October 2011
5 - 30 March 2012
Duration 4 weeks
Participants'
Profile
You are a manager, coordinator or head of department of a government or non-government organisations; or you are a professional expecting to take up such a position shortly. You need to have at least three years professional work experience.
Course fee 5440.- €
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Course Title Project Cycle Management Course
Institution Ede: The Management for Development Foundation
Country The Netherlands
Type Certificate / Short Course (up to 3 months)
Topics Management: Strategic Project Management
Language English
Degree, Credits
Location The Netherlands
Objectives/
Content

Planning, implementing and managing programmes or individual projects require all round professional capacity. Improving the quality of individual projects or managing entire programme portfolios more efficiently can be done by embedding various management methods and instruments in your organisational set-up. This course acquaints you with Project Cycle Management, a management method often used for individual projects as well as for more diverse set of projects and programmes.

Course objectives:
This course will provide you with the tools and skills needed to become a more professional manager of projects and programmes. You will be able to design and steer participatory planning processes and assess projects. You will also be able to design monitoring systems and turn them into learning experiences for all stakeholders involved. You will learn how to organise and steer evaluations contributing to policy formulation and the strengthening of learning capacities of the projects or organisations involved.

Course contents:
This course follows all steps of the project cycle. It takes a close look at policy design and planning, assessment of interventions, monitoring and steering and evaluation and learning. You will learn about your own role as a manager and the policy environment you will need to work in with the various stakeholders. You will explore the assessment of proposals looking at the intervention, the implementing organisation and the implementing capacity. During the monitoring phase of the project cycle you will pay close attention to identifying those involved in monitoring, their information needs and how to involve them. Finally you will be introduced to the main requirements necessary to effectively evaluate a project and to stimulate the learning curve of the implementing organisation.

Next Beginning 5 - 30 March 2012
Duration 4 weeks
Participants'
Profile
You are staff of a development organisation involved in supervision, co-ordination or monitoring of development projects or programmes. You work for the government, an international agency or a NGO as a project or programme officer, desk officer, task manager, country or regional director.
Methods The course includes visits to relevant international organisations, such as the EU, NGOs, governmental organisations or ministries, including non-development aid actors. The visits will outline the PMC approaches of these organisations with opportunities for discussions with participants.
Course fee € 5,440.00
Scholarship In 2010 there are funds available for this course through the Nuffic Fellowship Programme (NFP for short courses). For the rules and regulations governing fellowships from the NFP and application forms you can have a look at the Nuffic website: www.nuffic.nl/nfp or contact the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands of your country. Please note that applications should be made well in advance.
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Course Title New Architecture of Aid
Institution Ede: The Management for Development Foundation
Country The Netherlands
Type Certificate / Short Course (up to 3 months)
Topics Public/Global Health: International Health Issues and Development
Health Determinants: Poverty
Language English
Degree, Credits
Location The Netherlands
Objectives/
Content
Over the past decades a shift in the focus of Aid has emerged, from projects to programmes, sector support policies, basket funding, sector wide approach programmes and budget support. The foundations for this shift are the adoption of the Millennium Declaration 2000, the Monterrey Consensus 2002 and the Paris Declaration 2005 by the international community. Furthermore, the introduction of new approaches is often accompanied by Managing for Development Results efforts of the recipient governments and donor agencies.

"Technical assistance of the early years was followed by community development support in the 1950s, aid to fill trade and investment gaps in the 1960s, aid to provide for basic human needs In the 1970s, assistance to structural adjustment and debt relief in the 1980s, humanitarian assistance in combination with support for rehabilitation of countries after the civil wars of the 1990s and at the turn of the century, aid for human development and aid to prevent violent conflicts and foster democratic governance."

The above statement from Jan Pronk, a former Dutch Minister for Development Co-operation clearly indicates that in the last 60 years, many different development paradigms have been adhered to. Accordingly approaches, modalities and instruments have been permanently challenged and very frequently altered or adjusted. At the same time it is still questionable whether we truly understand the relation between aid and development. Under what conditions aid catalyses development and when does it stifle development? This course investigates whether the present Aid Architecture can indeed better catalyse sustainable development processes as in the past.

Next Beginning 1 Sep 2009 - 4 Sep 2009
Duration 4 days
Participants'
Profile

The New Architecture of Aid course is designed for senior managers from funding agencies, government and semi-government organisations from both South and North. These senior managers should be working in the context of international co-operation and be keen to learn more about the different development concepts and approaches, the consequences of these for the policies and intervention strategies of their own organisation, and the individual skills and knowledge required to cope with the changes. Ideally they should have participated in the seminar on Aid and Development.

Methods The training method used involves short theoretical inputs and lectures by experts, plenary and group discussions, study of a wide variety of experiences from the international arena and reflections on relevance and applicability. To this end it is important that you bring some documentation concerning the present situation in your country and organisation. Best practices from a wide variety of countries and evaluation studies will be presented and discussed during plenary and group assignments.
Course fee € 1,650.00
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Course Title Active Network Management - 4 modules
Institution Ede: The Management for Development Foundation
Country The Netherlands
Type Certificate / Short Course (up to 3 months)
Topics Management: NGO Management
Management: Human Resources Development
Language English
Degree, Credits
Location The Netherlands
Objectives/
Content

Alliances, platforms, and networks are part of every day life and everybody is part of a ‘web or webs’. If you move at your personal network, on internet, in your organisation or between organisations, with civil society actors, private sector, governments of politicians, in value chains or managing result chains with multiple actors involved. How yóu can effectively participate in, influence, manage and act in these networks is a challenge.

While ‘management’ usually refers to organisations and projects, the dynamics that matter are not confined to such institutional boundaries. The dynamics of networks to which organisational principles do not necessary apply. They need to be managed differently. The challenge is to discover how! We invite you for a discovery tour.

Over the last decades, we have noticed a growing tension between donor criteria for accountability as designed for organisations and projects and the dynamics of networks to which organisational principles do not necessary apply. We therefore also look into the results framework of networks, both on contents as well as their functional relationship.

Next Beginning 13 Jun 2011 - 24 Jun 2011
Duration 2 weeks
Participants'
Profile

You are setting up a network, participating in a network, leading a network or coordinating a network in a secretariat and want to improve its dynamics for making the network more effective.

Structure This two weeks course is build up by four modules of 2 – 3 days. It starts with analysing the dynamics of networks, their life cycle and the role of different members. The second module is about the facilitation of networks and how to stimulate and enable its members. Managing and leading a network as a facilitator is the topic of the next nodule, followed by the accountability of networks towards its constituencies. You can follow each of them separately or follow the whole trail and receive 20% discount on the course fee.
Course fee € 1500.00
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Course Title Advocacy and Policy Influencing 2: Improving your practice
Institution Ede: The Management for Development Foundation
Country The Netherlands
Type Certificate / Short Course (up to 3 months)
Topics Management: NGO Management
Management: Human Resources Development
Language English
Degree, Credits
Location The Netherlands
Objectives/
Content

This course will teach you how to improve your own role and style as a lobbyist. You will practise the listening skills that experienced lobbyists use. You will practise with six scientifically evidenced approaches to influence in a lobby meeting. Memory aids will help you to easily keep in mind ‘’what to do’’ in the different domains of Policy influencing. You will discuss what values and principles are important to your organisation and how they can protect you from corruption. By the end of this course you will feel more confident and better equipped for the road ahead. Your progress is evidenced by tests.

Next Beginning 28 November - 2 December 2011
Duration 1 week
Participants'
Profile

You have (some) experience in Lobby & Advocacy and now you would like to improve your skills as a lobbyist in the development sector. This course takes into account your previous experiences, your present challenges, and provides you with personal skills to become an even better lobbyist in the future.

Course fee € 1,980.00
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