Using the UNDP's Electronic Platform for Learning

"Boosting performance and staff development. Achieving the programme priorities [of UNDP] depends on improving management and accountability and expanding opportunities for learning and career development."

Mark Malloch Brown, former UNDP Administrator (07/1999-08/2005).

The UNDP Learning Resource Centre developed an Electronic Platform for Learning, the LMS – Learning Management System. The platform currently offers over 500 topics or categories in an "el-Tree". Each topic or category is described and linked to a specific Learning Resources Matrix, which suggests a multiplicity of resource links from books to on-line courses to coaching.  The Electronic Platform for Learning offers also access to the UNDP Learning Resource Centre's Virtual Development Academy.

Under the same platform, a communication space - MyLearningPlace - provides a private learning environment in which Learning Managers discuss the issues they face in their office, provide assistance and receive coaching. Learning Managers can also help staff to take advantage of this space by creating or joining topics for discussion, storing and exchanging knowledge, taking on-line courses and accessing the Internet through a search engine.

These tools can be used by the JPOs to find training courses and other learning opportunities.