Kom in beweging met de Context MasterClass   Stilzitten is geen optie! Het is tijd voor vernieuwing op het gebied van draagvlakversterking voor internationale samenwerking. Tijd om in beweging te komen en op zoek te gaan naar nieuwe doelgroepen en naar vernieuwende manieren om de achterban actief te betrekken. Het is nu van extra belang om aa...

In studiejaar 2009-2010 start Hogeschool Leiden met de nieuwe post-hbo cursus: Community-based sociotherapy in Post Conflict context. Deze cursus wordt geheel in het Engels aangeboden en past binnen het kader van het Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings; beleidstuk van IASC (Inter-Agency Standing Committe 2007, Geneva). ...

Politiek en protest in Latijns Amerika Docent: Dr. Barbara Hogenboom   Tel./e-mail: 020 525 3383 / B.B.Hogenboom@cedla.nl   Periode: 1 februari 2010 - 26 april 2010   Tijd: maandag 13.15- 16.00 uur   Cursuszwaarte: 10 EC's (of minder, zie werkvorm)   Max.aantal deelnemers: 30  Beschrijving De 'linkse golf' in de Latijns Amerikaan...

Politics, culture and networks: social capital in Latin America. Course teacher: Prof. Dr. Michiel Baud Tel./email: 020 525 3245 / J.M.Baud@cedla.nl Period: 2 February - 27 April 2010 Time: Tuesdays 14.00 - 17.00 hours Course load: 10 EC's Entry requirement: Passive knowledge of Spanish Max. no. of participants: 15 Given in Engli...

Mastercollege: De speelfilm en de samenleving in Latijns-Amerika. Docent: Dr. Arij Ouweneel Tel./e-mail: 020 525 3246 / A.Ouweneel@cedla.nl Periode: 3 februari - 28 april 2010 Tijd: woensdag 10.00 - 13.00 uur Cursuszwaarte: 10 EC's Max. aantal deelnemers: 20       Trefwoorden Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Cultuur Psychologie...

Steden en stedelijkheid in Latijns Amerika . Docent: Dr. Christien Klaufus   Tel./e-mail: 020 525 3249 / C.J.Klaufus@cedla.nl   Periode: 3 februari 2010 - 28 april 2010   Tijd: woensdag 13.00 - 17.00 uur   Cursuszwaarte: 5 EC's   Toelatingseis: Basiscursus   Max. aantal deelnemers: 25    . Beschrijving Latijns Amerika is de afg...

Mastercollege: Steden en stedelijkheid in Latijns Amerika/ Cities and Urbanity in Latin America. Docent: Dr. Christien Klaufus Tel./e-mail: 020 525 3249 / C.J.Klaufus@cedla.nl Periode: 3 februari 2010 - 28 april 2010 Tijd: woensdag 13.00 - 17.00 uur Cursuszwaarte: 10 EC's Max. aantal deelnemers: 15       Beschrijving Latijns Am...

Gender, armoede en familie in Latijns Amerika . Docent: Dr. Annelou Ypeij   Tel./e-mail: 020 525 3251 / J.L.Ypeij@cedla.nl   Periode: 4 februari - 29 april 2010   Tijd: donderdag 13.00 - 15.30 uur   Cursuszwaarte: 5 EC's   Max. aantal deelnemers: 30   Toelatingseis: Basiscursus    Beschrijving In de context van globaliseringspr...

Mastercollege: Gender, familie en armoede in Latijns Amerika. Docent: Dr. Annelou Ypeij Tel./e-mail: 020 525 3251 / J.L.Ypeij@cedla.nl Periode: 4 februari - 29 april 2010 Tijd: donderdag 13.00 - 17.00 uur Cursuszwaarte: 10 EC's Max. aantal deelnemers: 20     Beschrijving In de context van globaliseringsprocessen en neoliberale h...

Whether it is a programme or individual project, planning, implementing and managing your development intervention requires all-round professional capacity. By embedding various management methods and instruments in your organisational set-up you can significantly enhance the quality of management of an individual project or that of a whole ran...

Development actions, either projects or programmes, are complex environments. Consequently, the responsibilities and tasks of the manager are broad and multi-faceted. They include key issues like communication with stakeholders, dealing with uncertainty, staff performance management, facilitating organisational learning, and monitoring & evalua...

Heb je als consultant gewerkt voor GTZ en wil je in de toekomst je diensten blijven aan bieden dan is het belangrijk te weten dat GTZ per 1 april 2010 Capacity WORKS certificering als een verplicht criteria stelt in de beoordeling van haar consulting contracten, zie ook http://www.gtz.de/en/leistungsangebote/29215.htm.

Om vanuit  idealen een initiatief op poten te zetten, heb je niet alleen een goed idee nodig. Wil je andere partijen meekrijgen in jouw plan, dan is een goede begroting onmisbaar. Maar hoe maak je een duidelijke en overzichtelijke kostenraming?

Je wilt je duurzame initiatief in de praktijk te brengen. Een goed idee!  Maar dan...financieren. Vaak is dat onontgonnen terrein voor een initiatiefnemer, of simpelweg een zaak waar je niet teveel tijd in wilt steken, want je wilt aan de slag!

Regelmatig organiseert COS Noord-Holland de cursussen 'Uitwisseling'. Deze cursussen zijn bedoeld voor vrijwilligers die actief zijn op het gebied van internationale samenwerking, die een project in een ontwikkelingsland ondersteunen of dat gaan doen. Samenwerken Wie is uw projectpartner en wat is zijn/haar positie in de samenleving in het ont...

Afrika, Azië, Latijns-Amerika, van de gedachte alleen al krijg je de kriebels. Wij ook. Jij wilt meer zien dan de toeristische trekpleisters? Lokaal een bijdrage leveren? Wij ook. In deze workshop kom je erachter hoe je je plannen kunt realiseren. Laat je inspireren door je eigen mogelijkheden. Maak kennis en ervaar verschillende participatiev...

Afrika, Azië, Latijns-Amerika, van de gedachte alleen al krijg je de kriebels. Wij ook. Jij wilt meer zien dan de toeristische trekpleisters? Lokaal een bijdrage leveren? Wij ook. In deze workshop kom je erachter hoe je je plannen kunt realiseren. Laat je inspireren door je eigen mogelijkheden. Maak kennis en ervaar verschillende participatiev...

Organisations are continually facing and dealing with new challenges requiring adjustments and change. However, the implications of even minor changes are regularly under-estimated by senior management, in particular when it comes to managing the human dimension of change constructively.

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...

Heb je als consultant gewerkt voor GTZ en wil je in de toekomst je diensten blijven aan bieden dan is het belangrijk te weten dat GTZ per 1 april 2010 Capacity WORKS certificering als een verplicht criteria stelt in de beoordeling van haar consulting contracten, zie ook http://www.gtz.de/en/leistungsangebote/29215.htm.

Ethiek en resultaten zijn twee onmisbare elementen van de fondsenwerving. Wat ‘scoort’ en wat is ethisch verantwoord? Soms liggen deze elementen mijlenver uit elkaar en soms raken ze elkaar nauw. Welke norm hanteer je en hoe stel je die norm vast? Na deze training kun je zelf verwoorden wat voor jezelf en je organisatie onder ethiek valt en h...

It is recognized that people are the most valuable asset of your organisation. However; tapping into that asset is not easy: motivating staff to perform at their best, dealing with non-performance and creating the optimum environment for human capacities to grow remain immense challenges. Effective HRM must be tailored to your organisation, its...

Effective Project Planning is the key to the success or otherwise of any aid intervention. Traditional planning practices in the development field have proven to be ineffective where there is little or no participation by the relevant stakeholders. Repeatedly, the building of ownership that participatory planning affords has been stressed as an...

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.

Je wilt graag publiciteit voor je duurzame initiatief, maar hoe krijg je dat voor elkaar? Dan is de workshop 'Hoe komt mijn initiatief in de pers?' iets voor jou!

In deze training leer je hoe je donateurs of geld kunt werven via een televisieprogramma en wat daar allemaal bij komt kijken. Je krijgt inzicht in de televisiewereld. Ook krijg je handvatten om samen met de televisieproducenten tot een zo effectief mogelijk programma te komen zonder de eigenheid van de organisatie te verliezen. Je krijgt prakti...

In deze training leer je hoe je donateurs of geld kunt werven via een televisieprogramma en wat daar allemaal bij komt kijken. Je krijgt inzicht in de televisiewereld. Ook krijg je handvatten om samen met de televisieproducenten tot een zo effectief mogelijk programma te komen zonder de eigenheid van de organisatie te verliezen. Je krijgt prakti...

Regelmatig organiseert COS Noord-Holland de cursussen 'Uitwisseling'. Deze cursussen zijn bedoeld voor vrijwilligers die actief zijn op het gebied van internationale samenwerking, die een project in een ontwikkelingsland ondersteunen of dat gaan doen. Internationale samenwerking In deze module gaan we in op de plaats van uw eigen project in he...

Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, Hyves, Xing..... allemaal Social Media die sterk in opkomst zijn. In deze training maak je kennis met de mogelijkheden en onmogelijkheden van deze media. Bovendien leer je hoe je als goed doel deze media in kan zetten om pr te bedrijven, voorlichting te geven over het werkveld, verantwoording af te leggen of fondsen...

Brazilië: democratie, burgerschap en duurzame ontwikkeling Docenten: Dr. Fábio de Castro (Lectures in English) Dr. Kees Koonings, Culturele Antropologie, Univ. Utrecht   Tel ./e-mail: 020 525 8516 / F.deCastro@cedla.nl 030 253 1879 / C.G.Koonings@fss.uu.nl   Periode: 7 mei 2010 - 2 juli 2010   Tijd: vrijdag 10.00 - 13.00 uur   Curs...

In the past organisations have often relied on traditional problem solving approaches; finding what is wrong and forging solutions to fix the problems. Appreciative Inquiry however focuses on already achieved successes in order to gain insights on how to further expand these successes. It is an approach to facilitating organisational change. T...

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 ...

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...

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...

Making aid more effective and more accountable is the number one challenge facing all involved in development and international cooperation. Consequently, MfDR is rapidly becoming the panacea. Knowledge and skills in working within this approach are essential for governments, donors and aid practitioners. What does this management strategy mean...

Regelmatig organiseert COS Noord-Holland de cursussen 'Uitwisseling'. Deze cursussen zijn bedoeld voor vrijwilligers die actief zijn op het gebied van internationale samenwerking, die een project in een ontwikkelingsland ondersteunen of dat gaan doen. Effectief fondsen werven Fondswerving is een belangrijk, maar vaak moeilijk aspect. Naast de ...

Value Chain Analysis enables us to understand competitive challenges and to identify vertical coordination mechanisms. Value Chain Development aims to improve access to markets and increase productive efficiency, ensuring that all actors including the resource-poor, benefit from these value chains.

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...

The ambition to make an effective and meaningful contribution to long term development objectives, demands the drive for continuous organisational improvement; a process that is most effective when based on a sound and systematic assessment of the organisation's institutional context and its own internal capacity. The IDOS course provides a com...

Advising development organisations requires an excellent appreciation of the relationship between adviser and client. Firstly, a thorough exploration of the internal dynamics within the client organisation is needed, for the advisor to devise the most appropriate and effective change process for the organisation. This course will help you grasp...

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.

With pressure on aid organisations to prove their effectiveness, the issue of accountability is a 'hot potato' in development circles. Proper management and reporting of finances is fundamental in maintaining relationships with funding agencies, governments and other stakeholders. Effective financial management is everyone's responsibility not ...

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...

Smallholders need access to finances to operate and develop their businesses. By leveraging relationships with their suppliers and buyers, smallholders can increase their financial attractiveness to financial institutions.  This can lead to development of commercially attractive financial services matched to the needs of smallholders within a v...

Value Chain Facilitation leads to motivated value chain actors who understand the challenges, and actively and jointly pursue their common goals.  Structuring the facilitation process, identifying competencies and applying effective tools is central to successful value chain development.

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 ...

Worldwide decentralisation efforts have increased the policy-making, implementation and monitoring responsibilities of local authorities. Local government exists to encourage local economic and social development. To realise this mission, local government needs to develop policies and establish the required organisational set-up, and above all ...

There is an increasing demand for solid result measurement. The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development has developed practical guidelines, based on proven good practice. Applying these guidelines improves project performance and enables you to communicate credible results.

Regelmatig organiseert COS Noord-Holland de cursussen 'Uitwisseling'. Deze cursussen zijn bedoeld voor vrijwilligers die actief zijn op het gebied van internationale samenwerking, die een project in een ontwikkelingsland ondersteunen of dat gaan doen. Samenwerken Wie is uw projectpartner en wat is zijn/haar positie in de samenleving in het ont...

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.

In the world of international cooperation, the demand for advisory and consulting processes and services is increasing. Local and international advisers are increasingly involved in supporting organisations through their learning and growth processes. MDF has developed the International Advisory Trail, (IAT), as an individually blended learning...

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...

The challenges of the modern Programme Manager are many and diverse; Ensuring the right programme focus in an ever-changing context with many players and needs; Mobilising and enabling the right implementing partners that often work at great distance; Monitoring programme results in light of achievements at project level and beyond-Just to name...

The ambition to make an effective and meaningful contribution to long term development objectives, demands the drive for continuous organisational improvement; a process that is most effective when based on a sound and systematic assessment of the organisation's institutional context and its own internal capacity. The IDOS course provides a com...

For more than three decades the Logical Framework Approach has played a key role in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of projects and programmes. For many development practitioners the Logical Framework is a burden imposed by donor agencies, whilst others praise it as a useful tool which facilitates systematic planning with differe...

Development actions, either projects or programmes, are complex environments. Consequently, the responsibilities and tasks of the manager are broad and multi-faceted. They include key issues like communication with stakeholders, dealing with uncertainty, staff performance management, facilitating organisational learning, and monitoring & evalua...

Ce cours a pour objectif d'élargir et d'améliorer les capacités et les connaissances managériales des administrateurs et chefs de projet afin qu'ils soient capables d'exécuter leurs tâches et leurs responsabilités avec plus d'efficacité. Pendant quatre semaines (trois semaines au Togo) que durera le cours, quatre modules seront traités.

It is recognized that people are the most valuable asset of your organisation. However; tapping into that asset is not easy: motivating staff to perform at their best, dealing with non-performance and creating the optimum environment for human capacities to grow remain immense challenges. Effective HRM must be tailored to your organisation, its...

Effective Project Planning is the key to the success or otherwise of any aid intervention. Traditional planning practices in the development field have proven to be ineffective where there is little or no participation by the relevant stakeholders. Repeatedly, the building of ownership that participatory planning affords has been stressed as an...

In the past organisations have often relied on traditional problem solving approaches; finding what is wrong and forging solutions to fix the problems. Appreciative Inquiry however focuses on already achieved successes in order to gain insights on how to further expand these successes. It is an approach to facilitating organisational change. T...

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...

Making aid more effective and more accountable is the number one challenge facing all involved in development and international cooperation. Consequently, MfDR is rapidly becoming the panacea. Knowledge and skills in working within this approach are essential for governments, donors and aid practitioners. What does this management strategy mean...

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...

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...