Welcome to the Technical Project Management in WASH Emergencies course. This interactive course introduces and familiarises staff with standard project management stages and tools in a creative, practical and innovative way, and covers areas such as logistics processes, risk management, and quality control. 

This course is also available in French.

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Is this course for me?
This course has been designed for WASH field staff globally and specifically targeted at national field engineering staff deployed to technical WASH programmes.

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How will I benefit from this course?
On completion of this course you will be able to:
  • Describe the key issues of quality, cost and time when planning and implementing humanitarian projects
  • Demonstrate the use of critical thinking in technical project management and develop confidence to take decisions in real-life situations
  • Identify common project management planning tools and apply them in project planning and implementation
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How long will it take?
 This course should take you around 5 hours and 25 minutes to complete. It does not have to be completed in one sitting; the bookmark facility ensures that you can exit at any time and return to the same place you left off.

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How much does it cost?
 This course is free!

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Will I get a certificate at the end?
 Yes! You will be able to download a certificate once you have have completed all of the modules within the course.

The word START and a question mark in a circleHow do I start?
 Scroll to the top of the page and click on the       Join        button. This will take you through to the course page itself. You don't need to complete the course in one go - you can always continue later from where you left off.