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The Humanitarian Project Cycle is a free, openly accessible learning resource built on a simple premise: a good humanitarian intervention is not improvised. Across five richly referenced pages, it explains how international cooperation projects are managed at every phase of their cycle. It introduces what a project and a programme are, along with the vertical and horizontal logic that underpins them, and then works through each phase in turn: context analysis and needs assessment; design and formulation, including the logical framework and theory of change; implementation, with its activities, profiles and team roles; and monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL), with SMART indicators and the challenge of actually using data.

Designed for students and early-career professionals in humanitarian and global health — especially those from technical backgrounds who never received formal project-management training — it offers a clear, practical grounding in how projects really work. Each page is grounded in academic literature, evaluation reports, and institutional sources, with full citations and references, and includes a companion Gemini/NotebookLM notebook gathering all its sources so learners can ask questions and explore each topic in greater depth.

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