Estimate cost and effort for humanitarian and reconstruction projects using more than one method.
Managing Humanitarian Response and Conflict Area Reconstruction Projects
Turn humanitarian and reconstruction projects from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Stakeholders withdraw support for humanitarian and reconstruction projects quietly before they withdraw it formally. Scope on reconstruction projects expands through small agreements made in isolation. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about this part of project and portfolio delivery. Discussion is anchored to worked examples of humanitarian and reconstruction projects rather than to abstract argument. Organisations that document this strand of project and portfolio delivery properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. It concentrates on the parts of reconstruction projects that determine outcomes and treats the rest proportionately. The difficulty is not agreeing that humanitarian and reconstruction projects matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. It is designed for mixed groups, so that reconstruction projects is examined from more than one functional angle. The programme ends where implementation begins, with the practice within project and portfolio delivery broken into steps someone can start on Monday.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Integrate reconstruction projects into existing management routines rather than running it separately.
Define the scope of humanitarian and reconstruction projects precisely, including what is explicitly excluded.
Anticipate the objections that reconstruction projects will attract internally and answer them in advance.
Manage contracts and suppliers delivering parts of humanitarian and reconstruction projects.
Choose the delivery approach for reconstruction projects — predictive, adaptive or hybrid — deliberately.
Compare the organisation's handling of humanitarian and reconstruction projects with recognised practice, and close the material gaps.
Who Should Attend
Team leaders and supervisors who put humanitarian and reconstruction projects into practice day to day.
Those responsible for briefing external stakeholders on reconstruction projects.
Cost engineers and project controls staff on humanitarian and reconstruction projects.
Planners and schedulers building the timeline for reconstruction projects.
Project management office staff assuring humanitarian and reconstruction projects.
Risk managers supporting reconstruction projects.
Course Modules
Humanitarian and reconstruction projects: scope definition and exclusions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Keeping stakeholders of humanitarian and reconstruction projects genuinely supportive
- Set the change control process for humanitarian and reconstruction projects and require cost and time impact.
- Anticipate the objections reconstruction projects will raise and prepare the answers.
- Draft the minimum viable delivery plan for humanitarian and reconstruction projects.
- Map the handovers in reconstruction projects between functions and secure them.
Session 2Where reconstruction projects typically breaks, and why
- Prepare the recovery plan for humanitarian and reconstruction projects before it is needed.
- Close out actions on reconstruction projects rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Agree what will be standardised in humanitarian and reconstruction projects and what will not.
- Arrange the handover of reconstruction projects so capability survives staff changes.
Reconstruction projects: change control and variation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Recovering reconstruction projects when it is behind
- Measure progress on humanitarian and reconstruction projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
- Hold a lessons session on reconstruction projects while memory is accurate.
- Define how the benefit from humanitarian and reconstruction projects will be measured after closure.
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of reconstruction projects.
Session 2Building a schedule for reconstruction projects with a real critical path
- Build reporting on humanitarian and reconstruction projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for reconstruction projects.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to humanitarian and reconstruction projects.
- Define the decision gates for reconstruction projects and what evidence each requires.
Reconstruction projects: procurement, contracts and suppliers
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What to measure in reconstruction projects and what to ignore
- Reduce the variation in how humanitarian and reconstruction projects is carried out between teams.
- Estimate reconstruction projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
- Archive the decision record for humanitarian and reconstruction projects so successors understand it.
- Check that records of reconstruction projects answer the questions likely to be asked.
Session 2Managing suppliers delivering part of humanitarian and reconstruction projects
- Agree the escalation threshold for humanitarian and reconstruction projects in advance.
- Remove steps in reconstruction projects that add effort without adding assurance.
- Test the procedure for humanitarian and reconstruction projects against a realistic scenario.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether reconstruction projects is improving.
Reconstruction projects: estimating cost and effort
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reading the current state of reconstruction projects honestly
- Map stakeholders of humanitarian and reconstruction projects by influence and current level of support.
- Register the risks to reconstruction projects with owner, probability and impact.
- Plan handover of humanitarian and reconstruction projects to the team that will operate it.
- Compare resource demand from reconstruction projects against other commitments.
Session 2Closing reconstruction projects and capturing what was learned
- Agree the smallest change to humanitarian and reconstruction projects that would be visibly useful.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates reconstruction projects is under control.
- Identify the critical path through humanitarian and reconstruction projects and the float elsewhere.
- Confirm that those complying with reconstruction projects understand why it exists.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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