The course builds on participants’ advanced understanding and experience of how to develop new and enhancing existing complex MEL processes and practices across learning organisations. It also includes supporting partners to develop and implement effective MEL systems.

In this course we explore the concepts of sustainability and CSR and focus attention on how firms achieve sustainability and CSR performance. Students will gain an understanding of the concepts of sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) and be able to situate these concepts within the broader debates about the role of business in society.

Digital technologies are increasingly present in the context of armed conflicts, and they are primarily provided by private technology companies. This course presents current trends, analysing the risks involved in the digitisation of conflicts, both for civilians (as means and victims) and for private technology companies as the main actors of this transformation.

The course enables participants to understand the significance of the engagement of civil society organisations in policy processes in order to overcome exclusion and foster voice. The course acquaints participants with concepts and practice of civil society participation in shaping policies at micro and macro level and provides practical tools for influencing political processes.

The course deals with different approaches and types of evaluations within the framework of development projects. The participants acquire knowledge and skills for the use of methods for the analysis of project processes and results and their use in project management. In order to deepen the understanding, practical project examples are focused on.

The course explores characteristics of fragility and how they are measured and monitored. It further discusses cooperation between actors (peace building, security, humanitarian, development cooperation) and explores how development programming has to be adapted to these situations.

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) represent the deepest technical change experienced in international development. Digital development strategies need to be broader than ICT strategies. This course assesses the role of ICTs in development, discusses the existing evidence on the impact of ICT on development, and introduces key concepts and methods for ICT4D practice and strategy.

The aim of this course is to gain a basic understanding of dialog, negotiation and mediation process design: what are different principles, approaches and questions related to process design that development cooperation practitioners need to be aware of?

The advanced international course Natural Resource Governance and Energy Transition: Policies and Practice aims to equip practitioners and policy makers with knowledge and hands-on tools to navigate the energy transition and improve extractive industries governance and oversight for a better and more just future.

The course provides a deeper understanding of the conceptual and methodological foundations of results-oriented Project cycle management, focusing on planning, monitoring and steering development projects.

The course introduces the basics of politics and political economy and applies the theory to selected policy areas.

This course introduces the concept of social entrepreneurship, understanding in which situations and under which conditions the concept can be applied, and the basics of developing a business strategy for a social enterprise.

Students critically assess the economic, social, political, and environmental implications of extracting and using energy resources, metals, and bulk materials along the mineral resource cycle for society. They explore various decision-making tools that support policies and guidelines pertaining to mineral resources, and gain insight into different perspectives from government, industry, and NGOs.

Students integrate their knowledge of mineral resources and technical skills to frame and investigate a commodity-specific challenge faced by countries involved in resource extraction. By own research they evaluate possible policy-relevant solutions, engaging in interdisciplinary teams coached by tutors and experts from natural social and engineering sciences.

The following topics will be discussed: The political economy of the Corporate Social Responsibility discourse, voluntary governance regimes and development: theory of change and effectiveness of soft law approaches, PPPs: introducing concepts and taking stock of experience, analysis of private sector strategies from selected governance actors, engaging with the private sector.