Advancing Sustainable Development in Practice

This Advanced course builds upon the introductory course Introduction to Sustainable Development in Practice.  It teaches learners HOW to apply in practice an integrated approach to sustainable development throughout the various stages of the policy and project cycle, including analysis, dialogue, planning, financing, communicating, monitoring, and evaluation. The course contains tools, tips, and methods for applying sustainable development in practice.

Why take this course?This Advanced Course takes an in-depth look at how to take an integrated approach to policy analysis, integrated planning, designing interventions, financing, communications, and monitoring and evaluation in the context of integrating poverty and environment issues more fully into development planning. The course explores a number of tools, tips and methods that can aid practitioners put in place interventions related to the environment, climate action, and poverty reduction, at the national and sub-national levels.After completing the course, learners will be able to:Examine and promote evidence-based approaches to poverty and environment issuesSet up effective sustainable development dialogue process with key stakeholdersDevelop strategies for embedding poverty and environment issues into policy processes and plansDemonstrate the integration of poverty and environment issues into public and private finance, including fiscal policyDesign an effective communication strategy supporting poverty and environment issues integrationFormulate approaches for effective monitoring & evaluation of poverty and environment actionsDiscuss institutional change approaches to enabling integrated sustainable developmentThis course is based on Chapter 2 to Chapter 8 of the publication "Sustainable Development in Practice: A Handbook for Integrating Environment, Climate and Poverty Reduction" (Bass et al., 2023).