Selected training institutions
Listed by alphabetical order, with a focus on free online courses and institutions providing scholarships and financial support for young people, the selected organizations and institutions below provide regular online trainings, courses, webinars and workshops of relevance to CSO and youth empowerment.
​

• Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP)
• Association for Talent Development (ASD)
• Asian Institute of Management (AIM)
• Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution
• Barcelona International Peace Resource Center (BIPRC)
• Bioforce: trainings in English or in French
• Capacity Africa Institute (CAI)
• Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
• Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation (CIHC)
• Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF)
• Communication Initiative Network (Comminit), an online platform providing trainings and resources on communication and media development, social and behavior change
• Coursera, a social enterprise partnering with top universities in the world to offer numerous free online courses
• Danish Institute for Human Rights
• Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) / International Security Sector Advisory Team (ISSAT)
• Duke Center for International Development (DCID)
• edX, an interactive online platform with MOOCs from top Universities
• ELD Training
• Election Observation and Democratic Support (EODS)
• European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
• European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES)
• Evalpartners, an e-Learning tool on Development Evaluation
• Folke Bernadotte Academy
• Free e-training.info
• Futurelean, an online platform which offers free courses from leading Universities around the world)
• German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ)’s “Global Campus 21” platform, offering a lot of free online programmes for instance “Measuring Governance, Democracy and Human Rights”, “Intercultural Communication”, etc.
• Global Facility for Disaster reduction and recovery (GFDRR) and the Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI) offer the online course “Community-based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM)
• Global Health Learning Centre (GHeL)
• Global NGO, organizing regular webinars on “10 Social Media Strategies That Increase Engagement and Inspire Donors”, “10 Emerging Trends in Digital Communications and Fundraising”, etc.
• Hague Academy for Local Governance
• Human Rights Education Associates (HREA)
• IMA International
• Institute for Peace and Dialogue (IPD)
• International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR)
• International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC)
• International Training Centre - International Labour Organization (ITC-ILO)
• International Peace & Security Institute (IPSI)
• International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR)
• Joint EC-UNDP Task Force on Electoral Assistance
• Management Centre (:mc)
• MS Training Centre for Development Cooperation (ActionAid Denmark)
• MDF Training and Consultancy, for instance Domestic support and fundraising, Result-based management, etc.
• Montreal Institute For Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS)
• Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR)
• Peace Operations Training Institute (POTI)
• PROJACS training
• Reliefweb training calendar, offering more than 710 training programmes including on Proposal Writing, Financial Management for Effective Programmes, HRBA, M&E, etc.
• Thomson Reuters Foundation News, organizing online trainings for journalists on a regular basis
• UNDP Virtual School, specialized on Human Development (HD), Democratic Governance (DG), Crisis Prevention and Early Recovery (CPR) and Information Technologies and Communication (ITC)
• UNESKIT, open platform with educational resources on Media and Information Education, Freedom of Expression, the Right to Access information and more
• United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), especially their e-learning section
• University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights
• Wageningen University’s Centre for Development Innovation
• Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA)
• West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI)
• World Bank e-Institute