Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the course!

    • Introduction to the course

  • 2

    Section 1: Reality Check

    • What's written in the project document versus the REALITY!!

    • Why understanding the history of the programme / project will help achieve better impact

    • Design Feasibility Issues

    • Imaginary Impact in humanitarian work!

    • Test your learning

  • 3

    Section 2 - The Problem With a Needs Focused Approach

    • Needs Assessments - Is There a Better Way?

    • Context- Driven Needs

    • Who knows their 'needs' best?

    • Understanding Needs - An Impossible Mission

    • Real Example of Understanding Needs - Uganda War

    • Test your learning

  • 4

    Section 3 -Programme & Intervention Design - An Adaptive Approach

    • Introduction to Intervention Design

    • Why is design SO important?

    • Test your learning

    • Analysis for Design

    • Taking the Temperature First!

    • Understanding the People You Want to Help!

    • The Where IS as important as the What!

    • Analysing & Removing Implementation Obstacles in the Design

    • Don't forget the enablers - it's not all obstacles

    • Testing your FIRST programme design (prototyping) - an essential step - emergency or not!

    • Resourcing your Intervention Design Correctly

  • 5

    Section 4 - Now the easy part - Implementation

    • Feasibility?

    • More resources for you

    • Before you go...

    • What is Impact?

    • Measuring impact with indicators - an impossible task. Let's just face it!

    • Your implementation capacity - a key concept

    • Your Resolution Capacity - another key concept

    • The All Too Often Forgotten Implementation Strategy!