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Food security has been on top of the policy agenda for decades, but still a considerable proportion of the population in developing countries remains hungry and poorly nourished. This lecture series will explore how we produce and distribute food; it analyses the concept of food and nutrition security and discusses ways and means for measuring and achieving it in low-income countries.
Climate change is impacting every part of the globe, but these impacts are not felt equally. Lower-income countries, though least responsible, bear the greatest burden. Climate change has become central to the international sustainable development agenda, and practitioners must understand its challenges to foster global cooperation.
Degradation of the environment and non-sustainable use of natural resources, including land, water, forests and biodiversity is threatening individual livelihoods as well as local, national and international economies. This lecture series will address conflicts related to unsustainable resource use and discuss trade-offs between environmental sustainability and economic development.
The course provides a deeper understanding of the conceptual and methodological foundations of results-oriented Project cycle management, focusing on planning, monitoring and steering development projects.
In this course students deepen their knowledge about global development and sustainability. Students will watch five movies - each linked to one of the five P`s (Planet, People, Prosperity, Peace and Partnerships) that reflect topics of the 2030 Agenda. During class, researchers will present their perspectives on each of the movies and key questions will be critically discussed in plenary.
This course offers an introduction to approaches and tools for capacity development, considering training and human resources development, institutional change and systemic reform. The objective of the course is to build practical skills for better planning, design, implementation, and assessment of capacity development initiatives.
The course aims at strengthening the capacity in portfolio management for VET, skills development and active labor market policies. It deals with basic issues and challenges of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Developing Countries. In view of the many of school leavers VET has to place itself between the contradicting intensions of quality education and short-term training interventions.