General information:
- When: June 11, 12, 13, 2025
- Where: The Hague, The Netherlands
- Price: 2100 Euro (+ 21% VAT) + one hour individual Q&A session with the course instructor
- Early bird registration before 30 March: 10% discount
- For whom: project and programme managers as well as executive leaders and board members of public organizations, international organizations, national and international NGOs, associations, foundations, charity organizations.
- Language: English
- Certificate: Provided
- Additional information: Upon request
Content: This is a highly intensive and comprehensive training course designed to provide theoretical knowledge, understanding of practicalities, and some important skills on how to assess and manage multi-dimentional risks in development cooreration. The training is designed as a foundational course divided into three distinct parts: Day one – to shape your thinking about key concepts and their link to development cooperation. Day two – to provide you with critical considerations about important practicalities around risk management in development cooperation. Day tree – to learn and practice a variety of risk management tools.
Day 1: Shaping mental lenses
Brief introductory modules:
- Understanding evolusion of risk concept and multidimentionality of risks in complext systems
- System thinking vs complexity
- Anatomy of risk
- Risk management in complex systems
- Risk management standards: ISO 31000:2018, COSO ERM Framework, others
- Risk management in development cooperation: the Copenhagen cycles:
- Contextual risks (e.g. common country analysis, etc.)
- Programmatic risks (e.g. project, programme, portfolio risks)
- Institutional risks (e.g. functionalities of your organization)
- Systemic risk: menthal construct or a key to programmatic success?
- Risk vs resilience
- Risk and foresight in development cooperation
Expected outcomes:
The first day of the training will help participants to gain understanding of various concepts (e.g. risk, uncertainty, opportunity, resilience, system, system thinking, complexity, complex system, foresight) to effectively shape their mental lenses around risk and risk management in development cooperation.
Day 2: Critical practicalities
Brief introductory modules:
- Risk assessment and risk management functions
- Ethical considerations: whose risks matter?
- Risk footprint: meet risk stakeholders
- Enterprise risk management as early warning system
- Understanding nexus, cascading, (inter)connected and compounding risks and risk management ‘across the boundaries’
- Risk, Strategy, Reputation: building your organizational value proposition
Expected outcomes:
During the second day of the training participants will dive into important specifcs of practical application of risk thinking in the field of development cooperation. They will learn from practical examples the challenges and specific response strategies to address them.
Day 3: Risk management tools
- Brief introductory module:
- Risk description
- Risk Register
- Risk Matrix
- Risk Report and risk communication
- Risk Appetite
- Discussion: how to apply risk thinking when (i) shaping project proposal, (ii) shaping the monitoring system of an intervention, (ii) evaluating development results.
Expected outcomes:
During the third day of the training participants will learn and practice some key risk management tools. They will get understanding of some innovative approaches of risk management in development cooperation. Participants will exchange on how the new knowledge and new skills could be applied when developing, implementing and evaluating development results.
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For inquiries and registration please contact:
Ms. Magda Stepanyan
info@risk-society.com
or fill in our contact form.
