HPM Managing Programmes and Projects

Date: Monday, 15 October 2012
Ends: Friday, 2 November 2012 (19 days)
Location: Lyon, France
External link: http://bioforce.asso.fr/hpm
Added by: Annick Daull (Bioforce)

The HPM programme contributes to reinforce & develop managers' core capacities (managing projects, people and funds) in a practical, coherent & transversal way integrating the main worldwide quality & accountability initiatives developed in recent years.
The HPM objective is to give participants a comprehensive knowledge of each initiative and their specificities, as well as the possibility to integrate each of them in a complementary and innovative way within the organisation's strategy and management practices.

Designed to develop management skills to enhance Quality & Accountability of humanitarian programmes, the HPM training programme:
-Focuses on the Humanitarian Programme Manager's 3 core competencies: managing people and organisations, managing programmes and projects, managing finance and funding;
-Offers 3-week competency-based modules for each of the core competencies;
-Ensures in-depth understanding of the sector and its evolutions through an additional one-week module on the Framework of Humanitarian Aid;
-Integrates capacity building through a one week Training of Trainers session;
-Offers professional recognition and links to Masters programmes for further specialization.


MANAGING PROGRAMMES & PROJECTS (HPM TRAINING) - October 15th to November 2nd 2012, Lyon, France

Objective : To enable participants to choose and apply appropriate tools to manage all stages of the project cycle in humanitarian contexts.

Upon completing the training, participants will have developed the capacity
to :

-Describe specific features of humanitarian situations as contexts for implementation
-Define strategic, programmatic and operational levels of humanitarian action
-Explain the purpose of the Project Cycle Management (PCM) approach
-Outline steps in the Project Cycle
-Describe essential tools and methods for PCM
-Summarise critical thinking on PCM
-Describe strategies for integrating quality and accountability in PCM"
-Describe the purpose of assessments in the project cycle
-Describe appropriate assessment methodologies and tools
-Critically appraise an assessment report
-Explain how quality and accountability may be promoted during this stage"
-Define indicators and describe their importance and use in project management
-List common data-collection tools for assessments, monitoring and evaluation
-Demonstrate how to conduct a semi-structured interview and a focus-group discussion
-Describe methods for managing data and information: within projects and programmes and between organisations
-Describe the purpose of planning in the project cycle
-Explain the logic of the Log frame
-Build the main elements in the Log frame; Critically appraise the quality and logic of a project plan
-Draw links with the implementation and Monitoring & Evaluation steps
-Explain how quality and accountability may be promoted during this stage"
-Describe the purpose of Monitoring & Evaluation in the project cycle
-Explain the difference between Monitoring & Evaluation
-Describe the evaluation cycle
-List and define the evaluation criteria
-Identify and apply selected evaluation tools
-Describe and design the main elements of the ToRs for an evaluation
-Explain how quality and accountability may be promoted during this stage

For further information, please feel free to contact us :
Tél: +33.4.72.89.74.73
Email: session@institutbioforce.fr
Web: http://bioforce.asso.fr/hpm
Address : Institut Bioforce Développement-41 avenue du 8 mai 1945-69694 Vénissieux- France