To be a successful manager in any context, you have to be able to leverage the skills, talents and resources of others. Your ability to build, inspire and manage a team, maintaining high levels of motivation whilst steering people towards the desired personal and organisational goals is crucial.

Development processes are complex and multi-dimensional by nature. Adequately monitoring and evaluating these processes is challenging. In order to understand the context, track progress, collect data for management decisions; provide top down and bottom up reporting between donors and beneficiaries; high demands are put on the monitoring syste...

Realising ambitious and complex programmes asks for innovative and creative ways to connect people with new initiatives, through effective networking. This course will help you create and foster vital networks; joining forces and combining competencies.

Knowledge Management is about having the right information in the right place at the right time, and is critical for effective and efficient operations in the development field. Knowledge Management is about working smarter by having access to information when you really need it. It focuses on the processes that capture, filter and assimilate o...

Effective training can be a powerful tool to enhance the performance of your team. It can be equally effective in building capacities in your clients, partner organisations and beneficiaries. Training needs to be carefully designed and delivered in order to be really effective. Training sessions need to be engaging, relevant, practical and stru...

Development processes are multi-dimensional by nature, their management - rather challenging. Contrary to dominant approaches to planning, monitoring and evaluation that focus on identifying and "fixing" problems, using linear, cause-effect reasoning, OM offers vision-driven approach with a focus on changes of behaviours and relationships in de...

Coördinatie: Dr. Arij Ouweneel E-mail: 020 525 3246 / secretariat@cedla.nl Periode: 8 september 2010 - 8 december 2010 Tijd: woensdag 10.00 - 13.00 (en evt. vrijdag, zie toelatingseisen) Plaats: CEDLA, benedenzaal S.02 Cursuszwaarte: 7,5 EC's (of 10 EC's met schrijfopdracht) Toelatingseisen: Passieve kennis van het Engels. Toeganke...

The University for Peace (UPEACE) is pleased to offer the online course on "Peace and Conflict Studies; The Foundation Course".   This is a 10 weeks course, from 4 October to 10 December 2010. The course will be delivered by UPEACE faculty members: Dr. Amr Abdalla and Dr. Victoria Fontan. This course is offered for 3 academic credits or for a ...

De identiteit van de stad. Docent: Dr. Christien Klaufus en Dr. Arij Ouweneel Tel./email: 020 525 3249 / C.J.Klaufus@cedla.nl   020 525 3246 / A.Ouweneel@cedla.nl Periode: 26 October 2010 - 25 januari 2011 Tijd: Hoorcollege dinsdag 11.00 - 14.00 uur Cursuszwaarte: 10 EC's Max. no. of participants: 15   Inschrijfformulier

De identiteit van de stad. Docenten: Dr. Christien Klaufus en Dr. Arij Ouweneel Tel./email: 020 525 3249 / C.J.Klaufus@cedla.nl   020 525 3246 / A.Ouweneel@cedla.nl Periode: 26 October 2010 - 25 januari 2011 Tijd: Hoorcollege dinsdag 11.00 - 14.00 uur Cursuszwaarte: 5 EC's Max. no. of participants: 25   Inschrijfformulier

The new politics of mineral extraction in Latin America. Course teacer: Dr. Barbara Hogenboom Tel./email: 020 525 3383 / B.B.Hogenboom@cedla.nl Period: 1 November 2010 - 24 January 2011 Time: Mondays 13.15- 16.00 uur Course load: 10 EC's (of minder, zie werkvorm) Max.no. of participants: 15   Registration form

This course will provide you with an in-depth understanding of the principles and practice of a competency-based learning approach. At the end of the course you will be able to explore and debate the consequences of a CBL approach in your own work context. You will learn to identify competencies and design a competency-based curriculum. You wil...

Globalisering en de toekomst van Amazonia. Docent: Dr. Pitou van Dijck Tel./email: 020 525 3250 / P.vanDijck@cedla.nl Periode: 23 november 2010 - 1 februari 2011 Tijd: dinsdag 14.00 - 17.00 uur Cursuszwaarte: 10 EC's Max. aantal deelnemers: 10 Toelatingseis Deelname in overleg   Inschrijfformulier

Globalisering en de perspectieven op ontwikkeling in Latijns Amerika. Docent: Dr. Pitou van Dijck Tel./e-mail: 020 525 3250 / P.vanDijck@cedla.nl Periode: 25 november 2010 - 3 februari 2011 Tijd: donderdag 14.00 - 17.00 uur Cursuszwaarte: 5 EC's Max. aantal deelnemers: 30 Toelatingseis: Basiskennis economie   Inschrijfformulier

Advocacy is a joint strategic effort to influence policies and politics of governments, private sector and civil society organisations, using different strategies. This course will equip you with strategies, useful insights, tools and skills to prepare you to engage in advocacy more effectively.

Involving stakeholders in policy making and programme development and implementation enhances ownership. It is easy to talk of stakeholder participation and consultation, but in reality, this is quite challenging to achieve. Stakeholder processes need to be carefully designed and managed in order to achieve meaningful results and avoid setting ...

Organisations constantly strive to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their actions.  The organisational development necessary to achieve such aims is a learning process for which organisations often call upon the assistance of an external adviser or consultant. This course is designed for advisers who want to learn how to design and ...

Where there is a need for a competitive bid, understanding how to turn clients' needs into concrete budgets and activities, and to match them to your organisation's capabilities in a compelling way, is half the battle. At the end of this course you will understand the contents of a tender dossier (request for service proposal) and know how to a...