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This course responds to growing demand from mine action partners, including donors, for training that focuses on strategic, policy, governance, planning, financing, and results-management issues rather than operational or technical implementation.

Drawing on GICHD’s long experience delivering high-quality mine action training, the course will help participants connect strategic and programme decisions with national priorities, international obligations, and measurable humanitarian, development, stabilisation, and peacebuilding outcomes. 

Aim

The course aims to strengthen mine action partners’ ability to plan, programme, oversee and support the implementation of mine action interventions in affected countries. 

What you will learn?

The course strengthens participants’ capacity to:

  • Assess national priorities and plans
  • Interpret relevant legal obligations and reporting requirements
  • Judge whether targets and indicators are realistic and measurable
  • Use evidence and results-based thinking to inform programme planning, resource allocation, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning.

Who should attend?

The course is intended for mine action partners, including representatives of national authorities, government headquarters and embassies, donor agencies, private foundations, UN agencies, international organisations, and senior staff from organisations involved in financing, policy dialogue, strategic planning, coordination, or oversight of mine action assistance.

Language level requirements

Participants should be able communicate and present on their national standards in English. The following standards of proficiency in English should be met as described in STANAG 6001.

  • Listening: good | 3
  • Speaking: good | 3
  • Reading: fair | 2
  • Writing: fair | 2

Language requirements are compulsory and should be confirmed by applicants’ superiors. 

Equipment requirements

Minimum Technology Requirements

  • Computer with up-to-date web browser.
  • Google Chrome is recommended
  • Mobile phone

Computer Skills

  • You will be required to: Navigate the web
  • Interact with the Blackboard Learning Management System
  • Utilize word processing software
  • Enable audio and video settings on your device(s)

Teaching approach

Delivery will combine an online phase, which will provide short modules and reading material, followed by an in-person phase with short expert inputs, facilitated discussion, case studies, group exercises, peer exchange, problem-solving tasks, and reflection. This adult-learning approach links course content to real-world mine action decision-making contexts and strengthens participants’ ability to apply what they learn after the course.

The online phase will be self-paced and will start approximately one month before the in-person phase.

Assessment

Learning will be assessed through practical exercises, group work, case-based analysis, and a final assessment aligned with the course objectives.

Participants who score 80% or higher on the final assessment will receive a certificate of completion; others will receive a certificate of attendance.