Date: 30 July 2026, 14:00-17:00 CET
Format / Language: Online, English
Price: 250Euro + 21%VAT / Upon registration, you will receive payment request
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Speaker: Magda Stepanyan, Founder & CEO at Risk Society, with 30 years of expertise in international development cooperation with extensive expertise inter alia in strategy development; risk management, governance, and leadership; and evaluation of complex development and humanitarian interventions.
Description: Development cooperation serves as a vital tool for the global community to shape value where it is most needed to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities, and protect the planet as defined in 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The effectiveness of this global mission to transform our world relies on our individual and collective abilities to design strategic interventions, navigate uncertainties, make informed decisions, and develop systemic solutions, all while recognizing the inherent complexity of development contexts. Achieving this requires a strong foundation in diverse conceptual frameworks and the capacity to apply them comprehensively in practice. A risk-thinking mindset offers actionable pathways to fulfill this global commitment and improve the lives of millions. It provides the essential groundwork for developing robust strategies, making informed choices, and understanding the limits of accountability and learning, enabling transformative solutions to emerge and be realized. Embracing risk practice is a moral imperative for anyone striving to meet their commitments at the individual, organizational, and community levels. But how can this be accomplished?
You will learn how to enhance the effectiveness of both your individual and organizational efforts to shape, implement, evaluate, and gain insights from development interventions. Specifically, you will:
- Gain a foundational understanding of risk as a concept.
- Explore key narratives essential in development cooperation, such as resilience, systems thinking and systems practice, complexity, and sustainable development.
- Appreciate the importance of risk thinking and risk management in the context of development cooperation.
- Discover how risk management can be integrated into various processes and tools – including project proposals, common country analyses, strategic planning, and evaluations – and applied at multiple levels, such as project, program, portfolio, network, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Learn about common instruments for risk management, including risk registers, risk appetite statements, risk heatmaps, and risk reports, as well as their limitations.
- Delve into risk ethics and examine the implications for development cooperation through Leave No One Behind (LNOB) principle, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) and related concepts.
- Discuss the importance of fostering a strong risk culture to support effective development cooperation.
Number of participants: Limited
Registration: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/df715826-a693-4b79-bb21-44814c93b774@812a3715-3a4e-40e5-b038-f7b3dc11c71c