The Master’s in International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid is a course developed to train coordinators of humanitarian projects. It covers all the aspects of the management of humanitarian projects.
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
Development & cooperation
- 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
- Introduction to Disasters and Risk Management
- Disaster mitigation, prevention and preparedness
- Humanitarian response to disasters
- Restoration, rehabilitation and reconstruction
Course also available in French
Duration: 1.500 hours – one year (48 units)
Start date: 1st March 2027
Course language: English
Methodology: Learn online with tutors who have experience in the humanitarian field.
Certificates: Our master’s programme is endorsed by two institutions, each issuing its own diploma.
– Kalu Institute
– UNAC (University of the Americas and the Caribbean)
Tuition fees range from 645 EUR (60% grant for low- and middle-income countries)
1,900 EUR (standard fee) for students from high income countries.