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Useful links on learning & training opportunities
| General | Management | Governance | Poverty | Crisis | Environment | HIV and AIDS | Procurement |
The following list of links provides a quick reference guide and some useful tips to JPOs ans SARCs, who are
also invited to seek further guidance in this section as well as explore the web through the medium of
search engines (like Google.com,
Yahoo.com,
Excite.com, Msn.com, etc.).
Please also consult the thematic resources section on this website, which contains many useful
links to some key learning and experience-sharing platforms.
In the Client Satisfaction Surveys, JPOs and SARCs are asked which training
they funded with their DTTA. Please click here for the results table.
General links
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United Nations University - short-duration training courses and
workshops
- Active Learning Network for Accountability
and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP) -
sectorwide active-learning membership network, is dedicated to improving the quality and
accountability of humanitarian action, by sharing lessons; identifying common problems; and where
appropriate, building consensus on approaches.
- Centre for Intercultural Learning -
Canada's largest provider of cross-cultural and international training services for internationally-assigned government and private sector personnel.
- Communication
Initiative - (very comprehensive list of events and seminars)
The Communication Initiative is a partnership of development organisations
seeking to support advances in the effectiveness and scale of communication
interventions for positive international development.
- Development Gateway - website sponsored by the World Bank and international non-profit organization with the mission to reduce poverty and enable change in developing nations through information technology.
- ILO International Training Centre
- IMA International provides training and Consultancy for Development, courses in Project Management, People Skills and M&E around the world
- INTRAC
(International NGO Training and Research Centre) provides courses
on issues around strengthening civil society and Institutional Development,
Organisational Capacity Building and Programme Development.
- Oslo Governance Centre - new Training Referral Service to identify training providers.
- RIPA International - Trainings
in the key areas of public sector reform, project management, change management, good governance
and organisational development.
- Language courses - online languages courses are available on the following links:
- SETYM International - leading professional training and consulting company, SETYM is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider offering project management training solutions to public sector managers.
- Typing courses - free online typing courses can be found at www.typing-lessons.org or www.goodtyping.com.
Management Skills
Democratic Governance and Human Rights
- The Danish Institute for Human Rights offers a number of short courses on annual basis on topics within the human rights field.
For further information and access to the course calendar...
- The Centre for Human
Rights, University of Pretoria, is offering a number of advanced
short courses on annual basis on topics within the human rights field.
They are very interested in participants from the UN system. Courses
will generally be of two weeks in duration. Some money for scholarships
is available, in particular for participants from inside South Africa.
For further information, please visit their website
or contact Dr. Heyns.
- The Hague Academy for Local Governance is a new institute that works in close cooperation with the Dutch Association of Municipalities and the City of The Hague, organising training programmes for professionals that work on decentralisation processes and strengthening local governance worldwide.
For more information: www.thehagueacademy.com
- Human Rights Education
Associates (HREA) organises short, specialised courses via distance
education for human rights advocates and development professionals.
For more information
on the courses: http://www.hrea.org/courses/index.html
- The Raoul Wallenberg
Institute in Lund, Sweden, conducted a Regional Advanced Programme
on Human Rights: http://www.rwi.lu.se
- Georgia
State University offers Summer course on Fiscal Decentralization and Local Governance.
- The Duke Center for International Development, in collaboration with the World Bank Institute, will conduct the programme on Fiscal Decentralization and Local Government Financial Management at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA, Summer 2007.
For more information on this 3 weeks training programme...
Poverty Reduction
Crisis Prevention and Recovery
Energy and Environment
Gender Empowerment and Status of Women
- Mahila Web (Nepal) - List of training courses, workshops, conferences and advocacy initiatives
of interest to women and gender focused development practitioners;
HIV and AIDS
Procurement

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