Management
Project management essentials
Planning, scheduling, budgets, risk and reporting, using PMI and PRINCE2 methods.
Home/Training
Skills that stay after we leave.
Practical courses taught by practitioners, using real cases from Uganda and East Africa. Every participant leaves with tools they can use the next working day.
Formats
Four ways to train with us.
Open
Short courses
Scheduled public courses of one to five days. Open to individuals and to teams from different organisations.
Tailored
In-house training
Any course adapted to one organisation's systems, documents and staff, at your premises or ours.
Multiplier
Training of trainers
We train your trainers and extension staff, and give them the materials to train others.
Ongoing
Coaching
Capacity assessment, a costed development plan and months of follow-up coaching.
Course catalogue
Courses we offer.
Durations are typical and can be adjusted. Dates for open courses are announced on this page and to everyone who registers interest.
Evidence
Monitoring, evaluation and learning systems
Theories of change, indicators, data flows, evaluation basics and using findings.
Data
Digital data collection and data quality
Building forms in KoboToolbox and ODK, field supervision, back-checks and cleaning.
Funding
Proposal writing and grants management
Reading calls, building a winning proposal, budgets, and managing grants once won.
Finance
NGO financial management and donor compliance
Budgets, controls, procurement, cost eligibility and preparing for audit.
Safeguarding
Safeguarding and PSEAH for organisations
Policies, codes of conduct, safe recruitment, reporting and survivor-centred response.
Compliance
Data protection in practice
What Uganda's Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019, means for surveys, staff and client data.
Safeguards
Environmental and social safeguards for project teams
Lender standards, management plans, stakeholder engagement and grievance mechanisms.
Agrifood
EU deforestation compliance for exporters
Plot mapping, supplier records and the information EU buyers will ask for.
Agrifood
Farmer business and market skills
Training of trainers on farming as a business, record keeping, group marketing and finance.
Field
Enumerator and field supervisor training
Interviewing, consent, tablets, data quality and safety, built around your survey.
Leadership
Leading teams and projects
Leading people, giving feedback, running meetings and managing stakeholders.
Register your interest
Tell us what you would like to learn.
We will send you dates for open courses, or a proposal for in-house training. Participants receive a certificate of completion.
Organisations: for in-house training, tell us the number of staff, location and preferred month, and we will reply with an outline and quotation.