Advancing Sustainable Development in Practice

Type
Course
Emplacement
Web-based
Durée
1 Days
Zone du programme
Environment, Climate Change
Prix
0.00 $US
Personne de référence de l'évenement
Partenariat
UNEP (502)
UNDP
Inscription
Public – by registration
Mode de livraison
E-learning
Langue (s)
English
Pilier
Planète
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This Advanced course builds upon the introductory course Introduction to Sustainable Development in Practice.  It teaches learners HOW to apply in practice an integrated approach to sustainable development throughout the various stages of the policy and project cycle, including analysis, dialogue, planning, financing, communicating, monitoring, and evaluation. The course contains tools, tips, and methods for applying sustainable development in practice.

 

 

Why take this course?

This Advanced Course takes an in-depth look at how to take an integrated approach to policy analysis, integrated planning, designing interventions, financing, communications, and monitoring and evaluation in the context of integrating poverty and environment issues more fully into development planning. The course explores a number of tools, tips and methods that can aid practitioners put in place interventions related to the environment, climate action, and poverty reduction, at the national and sub-national levels.



After completing the course, learners will be able to:

  • Examine and promote evidence-based approaches to poverty and environment issues
  • Set up effective sustainable development dialogue process with key stakeholders
  • Develop strategies for embedding poverty and environment issues into policy processes and plans
  • Demonstrate the integration of poverty and environment issues into public and private finance, including fiscal policy
  • Design an effective communication strategy supporting poverty and environment issues integration
  • Formulate approaches for effective monitoring & evaluation of poverty and environment actions
  • Discuss institutional change approaches to enabling integrated sustainable development
  • 1. Analysing Poverty and Environment Issues

    Module 1 deals with the first stage of the policy cycle i.e., analysis, and speaks to the various pathways, methods, and approaches for identifying and analysing the interlinkages between poverty and environment issues

  • 2. Engagement and Dialogue

    Module 2 looks at the processes of engagement and dialogue, as an important step in shaping an integrated approach to address interlinked environment and poverty issues that works for stakeholders.

  • 3. Integration into Planning Processes

    Module 3 deals with the important issue of mainstreaming and integrating poverty and environment objectives into the planning processes in a country.

  • 4. Financing Sustainable Development in Practice

    Module 4 delves into the issue of financing an integrated approach, by looking at integrating poverty and environment objectives into national budgets and public and private investment.

  • 5. Communications on Poverty and the Environment

    Module 5 looks into the important issue of communication and how poverty and environment issues can be better framed to effectively reach different stakeholders.

  • 6. Monitoring and Evaluation

    Module 6 provides guidance on how monitoring and evaluation can help track the integration of poverty and environmental issues across the policy cycle.

  • 7. Building Integrated Transformative Institutions

    Module 7 equips learners with the knowledge of how robust institutions can help integrate poverty and environment issues.

Get your Certificate

After completing the course, you will get a certificate of completion. Once you complete all videos, lessons, and activities in each module, you will need to complete the final quiz at the end of the course before the certificate becomes automatically available for download.

You can keep track of your progress and download your certificate under the "Certification" tab on the main course page.