Online Master’s in International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid - 2025

MORE INFO: https://kaluinstitute.org

DURATION: 1.500 hours – one year (48 units).

CERTIFICATION: https://kaluinstitute.org/masters-in-international-cooperation-and-humanitarian-aid/masters-certificates-and-the-hague-apostille-convention/

PRICE:

• Regular Fee: 1900 Eur
• Reduced Fee "One-off payment”: 1615 Eur
• Reduced Fee "Grant 60 and one-off payment": 645 Eur

See grants-bursary conditions at https://kaluinstitute.org/masters-in-international-cooperation-and-humanitarian-aid/grants-scholarships-grants/

CONTENTS:

Project Management 1: Emergency Response

• Needs Assessment
• Abbreviated Project Documents
• Fundraising
• Accountability

Project Management 2: Project proposals

• The Logical Framework Approach
• The Project Cycle, Indicators and External Factors
• The Results-Based Management (RBM) and the Theory of Change (ToC)

Project Management 3: Implementation and Management

• Coordination of activities
• Follow-up and reporting of emergency projects (by means of reports)
• Follow-up and reporting of long term projects (by means of AOPs and reports)
• Methodological documents
• Institutional coordination

Project Management 4: Offices in the field

• Administration
• Budgeting
• Human Resources Management
• Security
• Logistics

Sectors of Humanitarian Response, the Sphere Project and the UNHCR Emergency Manual I

• Food Security, Nutrition and Livelihoods
• Public Health
• Water and Sanitation
• Design of temporary shelter and Refugee Camps.

Sectors of Humanitarian Response, the Sphere Project and the UNHCR Emergency Manual II

• Cash transfer
• Humanitarian Protection
• Advocacy
• Education in emergencies.

The international legal framework

• Origin of current humanitarianism and international legal framework for humanitarian action
• International Human Rights Law
• International Humanitarian Law
• Legislation on refugees and internally displaced people, and Disaster response legislation

Film Forum: The origins of current Humanitarianism, the creation of the Red Cross and International Humanitarian Law

Cross cutting approaches

• The Gender-Sensitive Approach and Humanitarian Programmes
• Environmental issues
• Rights based programming
• Childhood and Youth
• Disabilities
• Building local capacities

Ethics in humanitarian work and in development cooperation

• Humanitarian identity and basic humanitarian principles
• Evolution of humanitarian principles
• Codes of Conduct
• Other initiatives to improve humanitarian programme quality

Film Forum: The genocide in Rwanda

Let’s talk about solidarity

• Wealth and poverty
• Development: Theories and Measurement
• Cooperation strategies
• Voluntary work
• The World Bank and the Poverty-Reduction Strategies
• Governance and Development

Disasters and risk management

• Natural disasters as global phenomena
• The reduction of risk as a necessary approach
• Types of disasters
• Learning to Manage Disasters