Rural Development and HIV / AIDS

Master of Management of Development

 



Content programme

 

 

Course structure

 

This one-year course consists of 1.) a nine-month teach­ing period and 2.) a three-month research project culmi­nating in a thesis. It involves a series of competency-building modules that advance your disciplinary expertise and hone your professional skills.

 

Study load per module is expressed in European Credits (EC). The total programme requires 1,960 study hours, and leads to the award of 70 EC.

 

The Rural Development and HIV/AIDS programme has the following modules:

  • Introduction (4 EC)
  • Management of Development (8 EC)
  • Professional Environment (13 EC)
  • Management and Planning (4 EC)
  • Rural Development and HIV/Aids (9 EC)
  • Managing Change (10 EC)
  • Research and Thesis (22 EC)

 

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 Course content

 

  • Introduction. This focuses on the competencies related to studying and personal development.
  • Management of Development. After an introduction to Development Theories, you will conduct a Visual Problem Appraisal (VPA) - a simulation of a consultancy assignment in which stakeholder consultation is essential to analysing and framing a complex multi-disciplinary problem.
  • Professional Environment. These activities analyse your development organization in its institutional context - i.e. your clients, and stakeholders such as the government, NGOs, and community-based organisations. Based on institutional and organisational analysis mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS in the organisation is the focus (internal mainstreaming). It also contains training in management, communication and leadership.
  • Management and Planning. This includes project-cycle management, financial management, and gender analysis & planning.
  • Specialisation modules:

      - Rural Development and HIV/AIDS includes the dynamics of rural livelihoods, impact assessment of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and drivers of the epidemic like poverty and gender inequality. This serves as basis for identifying and formulating responses to the epidemic at programme level (external mainstreaming).

      - Managing Change. This includes promoting learning and change, doing advocacy, challenging stigmatisation and discrimination and about applying multi-sectoral response.

  • Research and Thesis. After examining the role of research in addressing human needs, this module outlines 1.) the design of research projects, 2.) research types and tools, and 3.) the interpretation of research output. These activities culminate in a 12-week period in which you write a thesis on management and organizational issues, the impact of developments on rural livelihoods, or specific programmes and projects. It should address HIV/AIDS issues in rural development and be relevant to your area of work.

 

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Competences

 

By graduation, you will have a clear understanding of the complex relationships between HIV/AIDS and rural development, and of concrete ways of responding to the epidemic. You will greatly have enhanced your ability to formulate focused action in your organisation and programmes, and also in your collaboration with other organisations. As well as gaining skills for facilitating the mainstreaming process, you will also have developed a fully professional attitude to working on HIV/AIDS issues. In short, you will feel empowered to act.

 

 


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