Water Security for Policy Makers and Practitioners
Training Provider: University of East Anglia

The University of East Anglia Water Security Centre and London Water Research Group are pleased to combine once again their expertise to offer this contemporary, innovative short course. Bringing their respective strengths in water politics, climate change, agricultural water management and water allocation, this course will provide participants with an exceptional chance to acquire an understanding of a key issue globally: water security.

 

Objectives

The course will provide policy-makers with comprehensive background knowledge relevant to the increasingly important policy challenge of ‘water security’. The course will explore how the multiple levels of water security – human, community, state, international and global – require broad but considered policy inputs. Emphasis will be placed on the inter-dependencies of different sectors (climate security, food security, energy security) that interact within a ‘web’ of water security. The implications for national security and human security will be interpreted through an appreciation that water security for some can mean water insecurity for others. Emphasis will be place on the importance of shifting global climate and trade patterns. Participants can expect to leave the course with an ability to critically assess and address current water security policy, to gain an appreciation of the relations between water security and energy, climate, food, human or national security, and to have extended their networks and resource base. A certificate of completion will be issued by the School of International Development, University of East Anglia.

Professional Development Programme (University of East Anglia)
Training Provider: University of East Anglia
The Professional Development Programme allows individuals or small groups to take time out from their work routine and benefit from the provision of an environment and access to facilities that will enable them to enhance their professional skills and capabilities.

Management Information Systems and Social Media (University of East Anglia)
Training Provider: University of East Anglia

Three realities inform the current age:
 
1. Information and Communication Technologies are becoming smaller and more mobile
2. Monitoring is moving from a top down, ‘we look at you’ culture to a more democratic, ‘we are all accountable’ mode
3. Popular social media platforms like Facebook provide new opportunities for Information Systems of all kinds


Media – Impact - Sustainability - Resilience - Well Being: These are all terms of vital importance to projects of all kinds. Information Systems are expected to provide a range of powerful outputs, including:

·         Indicators of all kinds - performance, sustainability, impact, etc.
·         Other forms of measurement information
·         Organisational appraisal
·         Knowledge    

With the advent of ‘the cloud’ information can be anywhere and accessible by a variety of devices. Management Information Systems no longer need to be located on a PC or other form of fixed computer. This course is focused on the use of a wide range of information technologies to provide diverse forms of information which can be applied in management in a variety of ways.

Impact Evaluation for Evidence-Based Policy in Development (University of East Anglia)
Training Provider: University of East Anglia

The target audience for this course is early- and mid-level professionals, post-graduate students and academics with interests in or working with international agencies, governments in developing and developed countries, think-tanks, NGOs and other donor organisations which need to understand the methods used in evidence-based policy making in order to evaluate and justify continued public spending on particular projects and programmes. A working knowledge of basic statistics is strongly desirable.

Gender and Development (University of East Anglia)
Training Provider: University of East Anglia

The course is designed for development practitioners seeking to build knowledge about gender and to improve practice in gender analysis for programme delivery, and for leaders responsible for building enabling organisational cultures. The course therefore attracts programme staff and managers in development agencies and government departments/ministries; women’s rights officers; gender focal points and gender champions; members of gender intervention teams, often known as ‘office gender teams’ or ‘women’s rights teams’.

Climate Change and Development (University of East Anglia)
Training Provider: University of East Anglia

 

Objectives

Climate change has profound implications for developing countries, and increasingly professionals working in or for developing countries are being asked to integrate climate change management issues into planning, projects and policy. National governments also are increasingly engaged in official communications to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and other initiatives, which require assessment of vulnerability and adaptive capacity.

The purpose of this short course is to equip non-specialists with a broad understanding of what climate change may mean for low-income populations and what the scope and prospects are for adapting to change in the context of development issues and poverty reduction. The course does not set out to provide a practical ‘toolkit’ guide for policy and practice. Instead it is designed to equip participants with a deeper awareness of the ideas, opportunities and trade-offs represented by adaptation and mitigation: an understanding that is increasingly needed if we are to achieve effective action on climate change. Drawing on staff from some of the world’s leading research institutes on climate change and development (including the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia and UK’s The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research), participants will gain a state-of-the-art knowledge and have the opportunity to develop their analytical skills in this field.  

To ensure participants have a full grounding in climate change issues the course incorporates expert sessions on climate science, climate change mitigation and international mechanisms/negotiations relating to climate change. Key emphasis is then placed on vulnerability and adaptation in the context of poverty reduction – exploring what climate change implies in terms of impacts and vulnerability in developing countries, and how to go about building resilience and adaptive capacity at all scales.