Customised Solutions

The GCSP was born out of a tailor made course designed to meet the specific needs of government actors. We continue to grow with, and through, our partners who have diversified across sectors and around the world to include international organisations, civil society organisations and the private sector.  From new or adapted courses, workshops and events to advisory services, our multidisciplinary team is ready to collaborate with you.

We partner with organisations worldwide to design and deliver highly customised courses and solutions to meet their specific needs and prepare them to effectively respond to the challenges they are facing. To do this we draw on our cutting-edge expertise built since the Centre’s founding, which we continuously develop to reflect the changing world in which we live.

At the GCSP we are driven by the urge to have a lasting impact and make a difference in the world through all our activities. This is particularly true of our customised solutions. We do this by investing time up front to fully understand the context of our partners, their strategic policy and organisational needs, and what outcomes they want to achieve through a joint project. We then co-design the interventions. Our courses and customised solutions take place regularly in Geneva, fully virtually or in our partners’ locations globally, including in Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Organisations for which we deliver customised solutions include:

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Examples of our high-impact projects include:

  • A series of Crisis Management and Leadership courses for the Swiss Confederation, the European Commission, the World Health Organization and Swiss-based NGOs
  • Specific requests from various governments to design and deliver customised courses for their officials to enhance their crisis management preparedness. This usually includes a state-of-the-art simulation designed for their organisational and geographical contexts.
  • A global assessment of the International Organisation for Migration’s leadership team and a proposal for a leadership development strategy prepared by the Geneva Leadership Alliance
  • An agreement with the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to support its newly formed Women’s Peace Leadership Programme (following on from our courses on Leading Mediation for the Mediterranean and Arab Women Mediators Networks)
  • A partnership with the National Training Academy of Egypt (NTA), for which we designed a five-month residential and online course on Adapting to Changing Contexts as part of the NTA’s Executive Presidential Leadership Programme
  • A course on Building a Strategy for Preventing Violent Extremism (with simultaneous interpretation in English and Portuguese) in partnership with the Southern African Defence and Security Management Network and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
  • A course in Spanish on Building Capacity for Effective Implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in partnership with the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Europe and Cooperation and the UN Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament, and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • A Female Senior Police Officer Command Development Course for high-ranking policewomen from a global pool of 140 countries, in cooperation with the UN Police Division
  • A three-day Management and Leadership Programme for 40 members of the EUUM Georgia mission at various locations in Georgia
  • A partnership with the UN Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations and the Swiss Federal Department for Foreign Affairs to host the UN Mission Advanced Staff Training Course for UN mission leaders.

Why partner with the GCSP?

 European Security and Defense Collegue         UnIG          ENTRi     ICMPD

* In line with The GCSP Way, we integrate the most effective adult education and facilitation methods to enable the co-creation of knowledge and its transfer into the workplace;
* We offer a unique blend of expertise, combining a comprehensive portfolio of topics related to international security and peace with world-class strategic and leadership tools and skills;

Customised Solutions

 

We customise solutions on multiple levels: 

  • By content: select and combine the topics in our comprehensive portfolio;
  • By level of customisation: from advertised courses to highly customised solutions;
  • By education and facilitation method: highly interactive expert presentations, skills-enhancement sessions, workshops and retreats, simulations, coaching;
  • By duration or language: according to your needs;
  • By location: at the GCSP premises in the Maison de la paix in Geneva or at a location close to you;