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Strategic Planning for Humanitarian & Development Actors

OBJECTIVES AND TARGETED SKILLS
Humanitarian and development stakeholders, including NGOs, private sector actors and national governments are seeking the best ways to meet immediate needs while also contributing towards achieving long-term goals such as the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). Within the context of complex crises, traditional short-term, single-agency programming that stops at the country level will not be enough to manage the scale of human needs.

Strategic foresight approaches and tools help:
•    To maximise the value-add that humanitarian and development actors can have within complex, ecosystemic crises.
•    To think beyond the life-saving imperative, pre-empt the future and develop local resilience.
•    To understand the system in which humanitarian and development stakeholders operate.
•    To avoid overestimating of the role that they can play.
•    To challenge neo-colonial mental models of aid.

This training supports organisations to see how strategic foresight approaches can add value to their current programmatic and organisational practices, increasing their impact and enhancing their contribution to the SDGs. At the end of the training the attendee will:
•    Be able to understand complexity and ecosystemic dynamics.
•    Know how to create a strategy based on foresight approaches.
•    Engage in collaborative and adaptative approaches based on strategic foresight.
•    Challenge its current practices of programming and strategy.
•    Support its organisation on the path of change and transformation.

The training is accessible both face to face and virtually.

MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT OF RESULTS
All sessions are interactive. Each session is introduced by a presentation punctuated by exchanges with the participants. Virtual attendees can also discuss the content via a chat on Zoom. The use of workshops will focus on skills development to enable participants to feel confident in using the tools explored without support when they return to their organisations.

TARGET AUDIENCE AND PRECONDITIONS
The training is aimed primarily at executives, managers and people responsible for operations, programmes, and implementing strategies within companies (CEOs, COOs, Division Directors, etc.), NGOs (CEOs, board directors, country directors, regional directors, desk officers, field officers, project managers, technical advisers, etc.), public bodies and territories (local and government representatives, directors, officers, authorities, etc.) and, more generally, all stakeholders in the humanitarian and development sector.
We reserve the right to contact you to discuss your experience in order to guarantee sufficient homogeneity within the group to ensure the quality of the training.
This training does not require any specific prerequisites.

FACILITATION AND PLATFORMS
The training is in English.
The training is facilitated by Eilidh KENNEDY, Director of IARAN and Michel MAIETTA, Founder of IARAN, authors of the book Strategic Planning in the Humanitarian Sector (Routledge, 2021), with the support of other instructors.
A file will be given to participants including a copy of the main resources used. This file will be sent before the training and can be completed during the training.
The number of participants will be limited to 20 attendees in order to allow for sufficient discussion and interaction.
The training is both virtual and residential. Virtual sessions will be facilitated via Zoom, Slack, Miro and Sli.do and some sessions will be recorded.

QUOTATION AND DURATION
This training session is available on quotation. Futuribles International is an approved training organisation Qualiopi certified. Its registration number is 11751653975. The training lasts 14 hours.

EVALUATION PROCEDURES
This training session will be evaluated by the participants via Sli.do, at the end of the session and in writing, through a survey sent to all attendees.

TRAINING BODIES
Futuribles International in partnership with IARAN.