Management of Refugee & Displaced Populations
Rule of Law, Democracy & Human Rights
Course Overview
This course aims to provide students with the knowledge, skills and critical understanding needed to adopt an evidence-based and reasoned approach to strategic planning, needs assessment and management of refugee and displaced populations across the spectrum from emergency relief to sustainable development.
Course Objectives
- Use appropriate evidence-based approaches for mobilising & managing human and financial resources
- Describe security threats and make recommendations for self-care of humanitarian actors
- Critically analyse the emergency vs development divide
- Critically analyse strategies for managing and co-ordinating refugees / IDPs in a variety of settings
Course Outline
Managing Responses to Displacement
- the key elements of a relief programme
- logistics, communications, and operational safety
- cross-cultural communication and community participation
Mobilising & Managing Human and Financial Resources
- human resources in relief operations
- project proposals and logframes
- fundraising for humanitarian programmes
- principles of good financial management in humanitarian operations
Security & Self Care of Humanitarian Actors
- security awareness among field staff
- risks to personal health and methods of risk reduction
- psychological self-care for humanitarian workers
Impact of Humanitarian Action
- rationale for and principle methods of evaluation
- application of humanitarian principles and standards to evaluation
Emergency vs Development Divide
- long-term solutions for refugees and internally displaced persons
- micro and macro-economic stabilization
- management of the transition to sustainable development

Study Online
$250.00
1 Week Face to Face Classes
$2500.00
2 Week Face to Face Classes
$3200.00
Course Features
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- 8 Weeks Online
- 1-2 Weeks Classes
- Certified