Human Development Forum Foundation

GM4 : Finance in Practice: Focus on Project Management
2025-05-10 - 2025-05-11
This training aims to give participants the tools to understand and apply the principles of financial management to their organization. It is designed for non-finance personnel with budgeting tasks.
Features include:
– The importance of best practices
– The financial management and analysis
– Budgeting best practices
– Managing audits
– Financial management and good governance
Objectives:

To improve participants understanding of best practices of accounting, budgeting, and auditing.
To understand practical financial management approaches and tools.
To help participants in their endeavor to underline the financial management necessities.

Dates:
10-11 May, 2025
Cost:

Regular Price: $850 USD
Early bird discount: $720 USD (Deadline 25, April 2025)

Included in the fee: Lunch, Coffee breaks, training materials, certificates.
Registration Deadline: 02, May 2025
Location:
Bangkok, Thailand

Contact trainingco@hdff.org for more information!

GM8 : Advanced Management: Anti-Corruption Training
2025-04-29 - 2025-04-30
Many organizations face struggles while implementing projects having to navigate possible corruption traps inside the organization and anti-corruption policies.
Situations related to corruption evolve over time and it is sometimes unclear whether it can be considered corruption or “cultural habits”. Using role play and interactive training settings, HDFF designed a course for laymen to better understand organizational requirements and increase individual awareness of corruption-related issues. This two-day workshop-style training seeks to build key capacities in anti-corruption legal requirements while working with donors/investors as well as basic ideas for related organizational policies.
Objectives:

Core legal framework knowledge (e.g. US FCPA, UK Bribery Act).
To provide knowledge on standard practices against corruption.
Organizational policies against corruption.
Intercultural aspects.

Dates:
24-25 April, 2025
Cost:

Regular Price: $650 USD
Early bird discount: $550 USD (Deadline 11, April 2025)

Included in the fee: Lunch, Coffee breaks, training materials, certificates.
Registration Deadline: 22, April 2025
Location:
Bangkok, Thailand

Contact trainingco@hdff.org for more information!

HS6 : Women's Security Training
2025-04-24 - 2025-04-25
The two-day HDFF-designed HEAT Women’s Security Training is a gender-specific workshop that aims to enable implementing female personnel to cope with gender-based security issues. It also includes hotel security-related matters and a female-centered approach to situational awareness. Practical sessions and briefings on PTSD/MHPSS, weapons effects, and active shooter behavior are at the core of this training. This training will increase the mitigation skills of the participants who, in the practical component of the course, will gain confidence in dealing with issues such as
aggression and violent crime, and learn basic self-defense techniques. This will increase the confidence of female staff members during their daily commute and work.
Remark: all shared private experiences of the participants stay private!
Objectives:

To increase the situational awareness of female staffs in commute and daily work.
To increase confidence in dealing with challenging situations and matters.
To understand how to cope with aggression and violent crime situations.
To be able to apply basic self-defense techniques in critical situations.

GM10 : Introduction to Blockchain in Development
2025-03-26 - 2025-03-27
HDFF’s 2-day Introduction to BLOCKCHAIN in Development for (I)NGO, government, and UN organizations’ personnel is an introductory course matching with the knowledge needs of the 21st century. This course addresses topics like “What is BLOCKCHAIN” and after this BLOCKCHAIN in planning multi-organizational operations, stakeholder management, supply chain management etc. in a scenario-based setting. This will contribute to a basic understanding of BLOCKCHAIN as a tool in development projects needed by every modern leader of team, departments, or organizations. The training is conducted by internationally experienced and culturally sensitive facilitators in an utmost participatory way.
Objectives

To facilitate participants’ understanding of BLOCKCHAIN
To develop basic ideas of using BLOCKCHAIN in Development projects.

Dates:
26-27 March, 2025
Cost:

Regular Price: $880 USD
Early bird discount: $795 USD (Deadline 7, March 2025)

Included in the fee: Lunch, Coffee breaks, training materials, certificates.
Registration Deadline: 14, March 2025
Location:
Bangkok, Thailand

Contact trainingco@hdff.org for more information!

GM11 : Leadership Training: Effective Administration and Office Management
2025-03-18 - 2025-03-21
This course is designed for individuals in leadership and administrative roles who wish to enhance their skills in effective office management and organizational administration. Participants will engage in practical exercises and discussions that focus on essential management techniques, including delegation, time management, communication, and conflict resolution. Emphasis is placed on developing strategies for smooth office operations, optimizing resource utilization, and fostering a productive workplace culture. Through best practice frameworks, this course equips leaders with the tools needed to drive operational efficiency and enhance team performance.
Objectives:

To improve the participant’s understanding of global leadership requirements.
To increase understanding of administrative approaches and related leadership skills.
To increase office management approaches and tools.

Dates:
18-21 March, 2025
Cost:

Regular price: USD 995 (Registration deadline 14, March 2025)
Early bird discount: USD 880 (Deadline 4, March 2025)

Location: Bangkok, Thailand

HEAT Skills: Negotiation Skills in Crisis
2025-03-06 - 2025-03-07
HDFF’s two-day HEAT Negotiation Skills in Crisis training is an essential and much-needed course for the implementation of missions. This training is addressed to anyone deployed on the field and their leader. This course addresses negotiations in several contexts: while facing government officials to obtain permission papers, while negotiating for the pricing of supplies, while asking for medical assistance in challenging situations, and while in a situation where no negotiation is possible. The training is highly participatory and mostly scenario-based. It is conducted by internationally experienced and culturally sensitive facilitators.
Objectives:

To facilitate the participants’ understanding of negotiations in challenging situations.
To increase the participant’s understanding of the limitations in negotiations.
To train basic principles and skills of negotiations in different settings.

Cost:

Regular price: USD 800
Early bird discount: USD 695

Registration Deadlines:

Regular price: 28 February
Early bird price: 21 February

Location: Bangkok, Thailand

HEAT Hostage Incident Management
2025-03-04 - 2025-03-05
The two-day HDFF-designed HEAT “Hostage Incident Management (HIM)” aims to give participants a profound overview of hostage situations, both from the hostage and management perspectives. This intensive training includes scenario-based management and practical components, as well as media management in hostage situations. Participants will learn through case studies based on the trainers’ practical experiences. The trainers served as hostage negotiators or Crisis Management Team (CMT) members and can share their rich experiences in the field. Objectives: Raise awareness for hostage prevention measures. Highlight the importance of the “Golden Hour” from the victim’s and the management’s side. Introduce media management in hostage incidents. Highlight the benefits of a clear hostage incident management policy.
Objectives:

Raise awareness for hostage prevention measures.
Highlight the importance of the “Golden Hour” from the victim’s and the management’s side.
Introduce media management in hostage incidents.
Highlight the benefits of a clear hostage incident management policy.

Cost:

Regular fee: USD 850
Early bird discount: USD 720

Registration Deadlines:

Regular price: 25 February
Early bird price: 18 February

Location: Bangkok, Thailand

GMT.3 Financial Management for Non-Finance Staff: The Essentials
2025-02-21 - 2025-02-22
This course is suitable for non-financial staff who are interested, or involved, in the financial management of projects.
Classes will consist of discussions and learning activities regarding transactions mostly used for general business and non-profit organizations.
Features include concrete financial management tools, financial statement analytics techniques, discussions about accounting principles and recording, auditing financial statements, and the main budgeting principles.
Please note that these topics can change depending on the participants requirements.
Objectives:
– Participants can record account transactions generally used by nonprofit organizations (including closing account).
– Participants can prepare financial statements as a non-finance staff (balance sheet and income statement).
Date: 21-22 February 2025
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Cost:
Regular Price: $850 USD
Early Bird Price: $720 USD
Registration Deadlines:
Regular Price: 14 February
Early Bird Price: 7 February

HEAT.1. Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) – Advanced
2025-02-17 - 2025-02-21
HDFF’s Flagship “Hostile Environment Awareness Training (Advanced)” is an advanced safety training built to address the needs of implementing personnel from (I)NGOs, media, governmental and UN agencies, international civilians, and corporations. It is intended for individuals working, based, or traveling in high-risk “Red Countries,” or high-risk areas within medium-risk countries (as classified by insurance and foreign service advisories).
This HEAT training aims to improve participants’ security awareness and handling of potentially dangerous situations in hostile environments while following relevant and appropriate international regulations. Since this is a core responsibility for employers, this training will also help enhance the organization’s “Duty of Care” profile. The HEAT (Advanced) training will be led by experienced and culturally sensitive trainers, ensuring the highest level of safety for all participants. This is an engaging, scenario-based training that includes three days focused on immersive, field-based role-playing exercises. The training will be led by experienced and culturally sensitive trainers, ensuring the safety of all participants.
The only Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) certified HEAT training in Asia.
Objectives:

To increase the understanding of proactive security and basic field measures taken before, during, and after a mission in hostile field environments.
To enhance the resilience of personnel in hazardous environments by knowing how to manage dangerous situations and related stress, e.g. checkpoint behavior, ambush/active shooter, hostile crowds, IED, weapons effects, kidnapping, rescue by force, First Aid, and fire fighting in the field.
To make decisions effectively as a team leader and function as a supportive team member in hostile environments and stressful situations, and gain a working knowledge of PTSD, Moral Injury (MI), and Psychological First Aid (PFA).

Date: 17-21 February 2025
Location: Hua Hin, Thailand
Cost:
Regular Price: $3,485 USD
Early Bird Price: $3,095 USD (Deadline: 27 January 2025)
Registration deadline: 10 February

HEAT Skills.8 Psychological First Aid Training
2025-02-05 - 2025-02-06
HDFF’s 2-day Psychological First Aid Training is an essential course that enables first responders/First Persons on the Scene (FPOS) to provide aid to psychologically challenged victims. This course addresses topics like PFA skills and techniques, PFA practical topics, and PFA as an important tool for reducing primary stress factors, which are essential skills for frontline team members deployed in the field. This classroom-based training is highly participatory, and participants are expected to engage in role-playing activities. HEAT Psychological First Aid is conducted by internationally experienced and culturally sensitive facilitators.
Objectives:

To provide an understanding of Psychological First Aid and how to apply it
To facilitate the participants’ understanding of Psychological First Aid in the context of crisis situations.
To train basic principles and skills to be able to use Psychological First Aid in challenging situations.

Date: 5-6 February 2025
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Cost:
Regular price: $850 USD
Early bird price: $735 USD
Registration Deadlines:
Regular price: 29 January
Early bird price: 22 January

HEAT Skills.4 Fundamentals for General Public, Government, Corporate, and UN Personnel
2025-01-29 - 2025-01-31
HDFF’s 2.5-day HEAT Fundamentals is a safety/security training designed for personnel from government and UN organizations, INGO, and NGO as well as corporate personnel and the general public. The training addresses the basic safety and security knowledge needed by everybody working or traveling. HEAT Fundamentals is conducted by experienced and culturally sensitive facilitators who are internationally experienced. It is a highly participatory classroom-based training, and participants are expected to engage in role-playing activities.
Objectives:

To assess risks for individuals, teams, programs, and locations.
To increase situational awareness and related risk management capabilities.
To understand safety tasks and apply skills to related personnel security while working and traveling, including situational awareness, risk avoidance, and risk mitigation.

Dates: 29-31 January 2025
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Cost:
Regular Price $920 USD
Early Bird $780 USD

Stay Safe Week Training
2024-12-10 - 2024-12-13
SST.10 Stay Safe Week Training (4X 1 day)
The environments in which humanitarians, development organizations, and corporates work tend to change continually. As a result, there is a growing demand for specific safety and security skill-building for implementing personnel as well as business/mission-oriented travelers.
Experts and trainers of HDFF are aware of the differing demands, with some security and program management looking to pick and choose topics, while others want the opportunity to refresh their knowledge. In order to meet this need, HDFF has designed a “Stay Safe Week (SSW)” consisting of four separate “one-day-events” on key safety and security issues relevant to general staff and travelers.
HDFF is encouraging you to pick and choose your own schedule based on your individual interests and needs.
Who should attend?

Every staff or business/mission-oriented traveler
Safety and security-related NGO personnel
NGO HR and administrative personnel
Interested laymen

What is included in the separate programs?
Day 1 – Leadership in Crisis: Security Risk Assessment
Are you able to conduct a basic safety and security assessment for programs and locations? In this session you will learn to identify risks and threats to your personnel and organization. The aim is for participants to adopt basic risk assessment techniques which allow everyone to identify fast and efficient risks and conduct a threat analysis for daily work.
Day 2 – First Aid at the Office and in the Field
This certified First Aid workshop will include the latest international guidelines & protocols for CPR & First Aid. Program contents include:

How & when to activate the local EMS including “Scene Safety Assessment”
Barrier use for layperson rescuers
Primary assessment & recovery position
One-person rescuer Adult Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
Primary Care Skills – conscious choking skills, bleeding injury management, shock management, spinal injury management

Additionally:
Severe bleeding – hemorrhage control.
Causes – accidents, injuries, medications, illnesses, and symptoms; blood discharge (wounds, mouth, ears) & bruising.
Management of suspected spinal cord injuries.
Shock management & prevention.
Treatment – Emergency first aid for trauma; professional consultation; reasons to consult medical professionals.
What to avoid
General guidelines for the treatment of severe injuries and traumas.
Environmental screening
Day 3 – Evacuation Planning and Fire Fighting
Worldwide security incidents related to political unrest are often closely connected to fire, resulting in injuries and/or loss of life for personnel. In case of political turmoil or safety, incidents like big fires, do you know how to evacuate your staff? Did you ever draft an evacuation plan? For small fires, do you know how to use a fire extinguisher? This exercise is designed to teach evacuation planning and a practical hands-on fire extinguisher drill.
Day 4 – Incident Management/Incident Reporting & Communication in Crisis
Internal reporting and external communication are key elements of general personnel’s work. But do you know how to report a safety/security incident properly? Do you know how to make a short statement to the press in a crisis? Practical exercises and simple guidelines will help general personnel handle these challenges appropriately.
All sessions will be facilitated by a combination of HDFF trainers, as well as key professionals in the security and humanitarian sector. Participants are welcome to attend as many sessions as they like, reflecting their own or their organization’s needs.
Costs:
160 US$ per day
Multiple booking discounts:
Book 2 days: $290 USD
Book 3 days: $430 USD
Book 4 days: $560 USD
These discounts apply to individuals booking different courses throughout the week. The fee includes all training materials, refreshments, and lunch, as well as an HDFF certificate. For all 4-courses attended, there will be an AIT certificate awarded.
Time/location:
10-13 December, 2024 / Bangkok, Thailand
For registration and queries, contact: info@hdff.org

HEAT: Hostile Environment Awareness Training
2024-11-18 - 2024-11-22
HDFF’s Flagship Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) is an advanced safety training that addresses primarily implementing personnel but also management and safety-related personnel. HDFF trains employees of
(I)NGOs, media personnel, Governmental and UN agencies, international civilian and corporat personnel working, based, or traveling into or through so-called “Red Countries” (high-risk level or deemed as such by insurances and foreign
service advisories; high-risk areas of a medium risk country). This HEAT training aims to improve participants’ security awareness and their handling of dangerous situations while in a hostile environment, following international
regulations for those kinds of settings. As this is a chief responsibility for employers, this training contributes to a high “Duty of Care” profile for the organization. The HEAT training will be conducted by experienced and
culturally sensitive trainers in an utmost safe way for participants, taking into consideration a high level of participatory activities and has in its core a three-day scenario-based practical Field Simulation. The only Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) certified HEAT training in Asia.
Objectives:

To increase the understanding of proactive security and basic field measures taken before, during, and after a mission in a hostile field environment.
To enhance the resilience of personnel in hazardous environments by knowing how to manage dangerous situations and related stress, e.g. checkpoint behavior, ambush/active shooter, hostile crowds, IED, weapons effects, kidnapping,
rescue by force, First Aid, and firefighting in the field.
To be able to make decisions as a team leader and act as a team member in hostile environments and stressful situations as well as manage individual stress situations and understand the basics of PTSD, Moral Injury, and Psychological
First Aid.

Date: 18 – 22 November 2024
Location: Huahin, Thailand Full Board
Cost: Regular Price – $ 3,485 USD
Early Bird – $ 3,095 USD

Financial Management Training: Financial Management of Project, Account Principles
2024-10-11 - 2024-10-12
HDFF’s two-day Financial Management Training gives you the tools to understand and apply the principles of financial management to your organization.
Features include:

Leadership
Importance of best practices
Financial management and analysis
Budgeting best practices
Managing audits
Financial management and good governance

Objectives:

To Improve participants understanding of best practices of accounting, budgeting, and auditing
To understand practical financial management approaches and tools
To help participants in their endeavor to underline the financial management necessities.

Dates: 11-12 October, 2024 (Registration deadline: 4 October, 2024)
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Cost: Regular Price – $ 780 USD
Discounted Price – $ 700 USD (until 27 September, 2024)
Costs include: lunch, 2 coffee/tea breaks, training materials, certificate, soft copy.

Results-Based Project Management (RBPM)
2024-09-30 - 2024-10-04
Many (national) organizations that rely on donors for financial support to maintain, expand, and create programs must be able to write strong proposals, design needs-based projects, draft LogFrames and budgets, and have a basic idea of Monitoring and Evaluation. On top of that, a basic project risk assessment is crucial for any kind of project implementation. It helps in writing substantial assumptions in the LogFrame, thus improving the quality of proposals and the project implementation. This four-day workshop designed by HDFF seeks to build a strong understanding of the intertwined skills needed for safe project management using realistic scenario-based situations.
Objectives:

Project/proposal design with the help of problem/objective tree
LogFrame as a major design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation tool
Budgeting and planning of the monitoring and evaluation of a project
Basic project risk management as an integral part of project management

Dates: 30th September – 4th October
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Cost: $940 USD – Early Bird Discount (until 6 Sep, 2024)
$1,040 USD Regular Price (before Sep 23rd, 2024)

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (M.E.A.L.)
2024-09-30 - 2024-10-04
Monitoring should be considered as an attitude underpinning everything you do. In Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) one can get lost in forests of sophisticated Excel tables and endless data collection tools, and nearly drown in oceans of monitoring books treating it as a separate and sophisticated science. The more one gets into the topic, the more complex it appears and the more overwhelmed and confused one becomes. Therefore, HDFF with its experience in M&E as impact evaluators designed an easy-to-understand 4.5-day MEAL course focusing on core tools and experience.
Objectives:

To help participants understand leadership basics
To increase understanding of the essence of Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E)
To increase the ability to differentiate between Monitoring and Evaluation
To apply practical M&E tools (LogFrame & indicators)
To help participants understand the learning process going along with M&E

Date: 30 Sept. – 04 Oct 2024
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Cost: Regular Price -$ 970 USD
Early Bird -$ 820 USD

HEAT: Hostile Environment Awareness Training (4.5 days)
2024-09-02 - 2024-09-06
HDFF’s Flagship Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) is an advanced safety training that addresses primarily implementing personnel but also management and safety-related personnel. HDFF trains employees of
(I)NGOs, media personnel, Governmental and UN agencies, international civilian and corporate personnel working, based, or traveling into or through so-called “Red Countries” (high-risk level or deemed as such by insurances and foreign
service advisories; high-risk areas of a medium risk country). This HEAT training aims to improve participants’ security awareness and their handling of dangerous situations while in a hostile environment, following international
regulations for those kinds of settings. As this is a chief responsibility for employers, this training contributes to a high “Duty of Care” profile for the organization. The HEAT training will be conducted by experienced and
culturally sensitive trainers in an utmost safe way for participants, taking into consideration a high level of participatory activities and has in its core a three-day scenario-based practical Field Simulation. The only Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) certified HEAT training in Asia.
Objectives:

To increase the understanding of proactive security and basic field measures taken before, during, and after a mission in a hostile field environment.
To enhance the resilience of personnel in hazardous environments by knowing how to manage dangerous situations and related stress, e.g. checkpoint behavior, ambush/active shooter, hostile crowds, IED, weapons effects, kidnapping,
rescue by force, First Aid, and firefighting in the field.
To be able to make decisions as a team leader and act as a team member in hostile environments and stressful situations as well as manage individual stress situations and understand the basics of PTSD, Moral Injury, and Psychological
First Aid.

Date: 02 – 06 September 2024
Location: Huahin, Thailand Full Board
Cost: Regular Price – $ 3,485 USD
Early Bird – $ 3,095 USD

Introduction to Negotiation Skills in Crisis
2024-08-27 - 2024-08-28
HDFF’s 2-day Introduction to Negotiation Skills is an urgently needed course for enabling field personnel and their leaders to implement their missions. This course addresses topics like negotiations for government officials to obtain permission papers, negotiations for pricing of supplies, negotiations for medical assistance in challenging situations, and understanding situations where negotiation is not an option. The training is conducted by internationally experienced and culturally sensitive facilitators in an utmost participatory and mostly scenario-based approach.
Objectives

To facilitate participants’ understanding of negotiations in challenging situations.
To increase the understanding of limitations of negotiation skills depending on various situations.
To train basic principles and skills of negotiations in different settings.

Dates: 27- 28 August 2024
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Cost: Regular Price – $ 740USD
Early Bird (Until August 13) – $ 650USD
