📅 1 September 2023 – 31 October 2024
Virtual
This Executive Master programme is a unique blended learning postgraduate course on humanitarian action, providing current and future humanitarian professionals with the managerial, theoretical and practical skills needed to optimise responses to humanitarian crises.
The programme has been developed in response to the growing need to understand, question and reform the humanitarian system. The programme offers evidence-based, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural education in humanitarian action.
The Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action is a flexible and modular course, allowing students to choose from two options to organise their studies: either a 14-month consecutive course or a flexible 2-3 year course.
Objectives of the course
At the end of the course, the participants will be able to:
- Understand the evolution of the humanitarian system, governance and stakeholders
- Demonstrate knowledge of core humanitarian values, principles, codes and frameworks
- Engage with major debates and critiques in the humanitarian sector
- Critically assess humanitarian contexts and complex emergencies (armed conflicts, disasters, urban settings and migration)
- Assess, monitor and evaluate humanitarian projects
- Demonstrate key management, leadership and accountability skills
- Develop relevant skill sets and competencies for the humanitarian sector, including public health, gender-based and sexual violence, communication, advocacy, negotiation, protection, finance and management.
