Well-designed projects are the foundation of effective development cooperation. Turning a development challenge into a coherent, feasible and fundable intervention requires more than writing a proposal: professionals need to analyse the context, understand stakeholders, define a convincing strategy, formulate measurable results, anticipate risks, design project governance, plan implementation and align resources with intended outcomes. The Project Design Certification Programme provides a practical foundation in Project Cycle Management and Results-Based Management. Participants progressively apply the tools introduced throughout the programme to a project of their own and develop a complete project proposal. The programme also explores how Artificial Intelligence can be used responsibly to support project analysis, design and writing, through optional AI add-on modules that let participants apply their new project-design competences in an AI context. These modules complement - but do not replace - the core project-design skills built throughout the programme. By sponsoring their staff on this certification programme, organizations strengthen their institutional capacity to translate their mission into concrete results for beneficiaries, and are better equipped to respond to an increasingly competitive development environment that calls for innovative, well-designed approaches.