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Leadership & Management

Getting a Masters' in Business Administration or Disaster Risk Management sounds really boring, especially for someone already shaping society through relief and dvelopment work. It also requires a significant investment in time, money, and hard work. But obtaining an MBA can accelerate your career in the aid business, leading to management and leadership opportunities that might not otherwise have been open to you.

Cardiff University

Distance Learning (UK)

This Executive MBA has been designed to meet the needs of experienced middle managers in the UN and elsewhere looking for ways to develop their understanding and knowledge of best practice in management.

Fletcher

Global Business Administration (Online + US)

The Fletcher School at Tufts University offers a blended online Masters degree in global business administration that combines in-depth, graduate-level study in both business and international affairs, delivered through recorded and live online sessions in addition to two immersion experiences.

Disaster Management

Emergency & Disaster Management

A directory of Masters degrees and postgraduate qualifications at universities around the world in the relatively new field of Disaster Science. University College, Portsmouth, and Manchester in the UK are particularly recommended.

Centre for Humanitarian Leadership

Graduate Certificate (Australia & Indonesia)

Each course is designed by working humanitarians to reflect the reality of response efforts around the world, backed by Australia's Deakin University.

Steinbeis University

Corporate Social Responsibility (Berlin)

An 18-month Masters Programme which helps leaders in corporations, NGOs and the public sector guide their organisations’ actions that are to result in positive impact on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, and other stakeholders.

Leicester University

Risk, Crisis & Disaster Management (2 yr - distance learning)

For businesses, communities and nations, the worst can strike at any time. Drawing on risk, crisis and disaster management theories and processes, this degree shows you how to tackle real-world problems in your professional life.

Bioforce

Short & Long courses in French (Lyon & Dakar)

Bioforce trains those involved in national crisis response programmes, especially in the areas of logistics, coordination, administration, finance, and human resources. It also specialises in water supply and sanitation.

Leadership for Humanitarians

Leadership

Discover how to inspire trust. Learn how to communicate a clear and compelling purpose. Understand how to align systems. And gain the secret to unleashing talent in your team.

University of Birmingham

Masters in Public Administration

The MPA is an international masters programme, aimed at those who aspire to a career in public management or policy-making in government, public agencies or non-governmental organizations working with government, whether at local, regional, national or international levels, worldwide

If you want to comment on any of the universities, colleges or courses listed or recommend an alternative, please contact us at info@aidessentials.org

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