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.

Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Activities (University of East Anglia)
Training Provider: University of East Anglia

The overall objective of the course is to provide participants with the competences, tools and concepts which they will need for both their present and future work in specifying and implementing cost-efficient M&E systems to support more effective decision–making across the whole range of organisational and sectoral settings.

Management Information Systems for Monitoring and Evaluating (University of East Anglia)
Training Provider: University of East Anglia
This course is designed for middle to senior level staff from relevant government agencies in both developed and developing countries, as well as non-governmental organisations, donor agencies and service providers.

This module provides M&E specialists with the opportunity to develop a computerised M&E Management Information System (MIS) in a two week period.

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.