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Anti-Corruption

E*Learning – The Role of Parliaments in Curbing Corruption

Learning Activity ID: GOV10-01-469
Dates: 28 Sep 2009 to 09 Nov 2009
Location: World Wide
 

Activity Description:
This course considers the role for parliament as a role model, legislator and representative in reducing corruption in a nation and improving standards for fighting against it, and the impact of corruption on social, economic and environmental norms. More Information »

Environment

Capacity Development of Youth on Climate Change

Learning Activity ID: CLM10-00-016
Dates: 16 Nov 2009 to 27 Nov 2009
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
 

Activity Description:
Climate change is one of the major challenges facing the world. Many countries have already been impacted by climate change and this has affected their development as a result of adverse impacts on sectors such as agriculture, water, human health and More Information »

Series of SNC Economics, Population, SLM, Marketing, Trade and Learning Package VC

Learning Activity ID: CLM10-00-018
Dates: 21 Sep 2009 to 23 Jun 2010
Location: Dakar, Senegal
 

Activity Description:
10 series of SNC VC workshops for half a day with topics including on Economics of SNC, Population trend, sustainable land management, marketing, and governance will be delivered to strengthen participant’s capacity to understand the importance of taking More Information »

Series of SNC Economics, Population, SLM, Marketing, Trade and Learning Package VC

Learning Activity ID: CLM10-00-021
Dates: 21 Sep 2009 to 23 Jun 2010
Location: Yaounge, Cameroon
 

Activity Description:
10 series of SNC VC workshops for half a day with topics including on Economics of SNC, Population trend, sustainable land management, marketing, and governance will be delivered to strengthen participant’s capacity to understand the importance of taking More Information »

SNC Capacity Development Assessment

Learning Activity ID: CLM10-00-019
Dates: 16 Nov 2009 to 11 Dec 2009
Location: Dakar, Senegal
 

Activity Description:
WBICC-SNC Team will visit training institutions in Burkina Faso (2IE), Cameroon (University of BUEA and University of Dschang-CRESA), Senegal (University Cheikh Anta Diop) to assess their capacity to deliver training courses on SNC. Based to the selection More Information »

Youth Master Trainers for Climate Change

Learning Activity ID: CLM10-00-015
Dates: 23 Nov 2009 to 27 Nov 2009
Location: Ankara, Turkey
 

Activity Description:
Climate change is one of the major challenges facing the world. Many countries have already been impacted by climate change and this has affected their development as a result of adverse impacts on sectors such as agriculture, water, human health and More Information »

Governance

CRC Methodology and Applications

Learning Activity ID: GOV10-01-506
Dates: 21 Dec 2009 to 23 Dec 2009
Location: Jakarta , Indonesia
 

Activity Description:
This program is organized in line with the WBI's new strategic priorities and the whole sale approach to capacity building. The program has already established several hubs (the central hub is already established in University of Hasanuddin - UNHAS More Information »

The Role of Parliaments in Encouraging an Information Rich Society

Learning Activity ID: GOV10-01-471
Dates: 02 Nov 2009 to 10 Dec 2009
Location: Washington, DC, United States of America
 

Activity Description:
This module focuses on parliaments and ATI and will help parliaments to facilitate the flow of information between parliaments and the community via the media. More Information »

Health Nutrition and Population

Health Outcomes and the Poor Cohort 2

Learning Activity ID: HNP10-01-284
Dates: 31 Mar 2010 to 11 May 2010
Location: Washington DC, United States of America
   

Activity Description:
The e-learning program on Health Topics covers e-learning offerings on Health Outcomes and the Poor, Strenghtening the Essential Public Health Functions, Basics of Health Economics. All courses are held online and are intended for Health professionals More Information »

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Poverty Reduction, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform

Learning Activity ID: HNP10-01-279
Dates: 15 Mar 2010 to 26 Mar 2010
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
   

Activity Description:
This course will provide state-of-the-art knowledge and skills to participants for designing and delivering more efficient, equitable, and financially sustainable reproductive health interventions in the context of health sector reforms and evolving More Information »

Basics of Health Economics, cohort 2

Learning Activity ID: HNP10-01-280
Dates: 18 Nov 2009 to 22 Dec 2009
Location: Washington DC, United States of America
   

Activity Description:
This e-learning program trained policy and operational decision makers on how health economics can contribute to strengthening the effectiveness of health systems by efficiently and equitably addressing the needs of the population. Course participants More Information »

Basics of Health Economics, cohort 3

Learning Activity ID: HNP10-01-281
Dates: 17 Feb 2010 to 24 Mar 2010
Location: Washington DC, United States of America
   

Activity Description:
This e-learning program trained policy and operational decision makers on how health economics can contribute to strengthening the effectiveness of health systems by efficiently and equitably addressing the needs of the population. Course participants More Information »

Basics of Health Economics, cohort 4

Learning Activity ID: HNP10-01-282
Dates: 19 May 2010 to 22 Jun 2010
Location: Washington DC, United States of America
   

Activity Description:
This e-learning program trained policy and operational decision makers on how health economics can contribute to strengthening the effectiveness of health systems by efficiently and equitably addressing the needs of the population. Course participants More Information »

Gender and AIDS

Learning Activity ID: HNP10-01-286
Dates: 17 Feb 2010 to 31 Mar 2010
Location: Washington DC, United States of America
   

Activity Description:
The course consists of 5 core modules and a supplementary pedagogical module running concurrently with the other 5 core modules. Each of the core modules will have conceptual definitions, documented examples, statistics and other background materials More Information »

Health Outcomes and the Poor Cohort 1

Learning Activity ID: HNP10-01-283
Dates: 13 Jan 2010 to 24 Feb 2010
Location: Washington DC, United States of America
   

Activity Description:
The e-learning program on Health Topics covers e-learning offerings on Health Outcomes and the Poor, Strenghtening the Essential Public Health Functions, Basics of Health Economics. All courses are held online and are intended for Health professionals More Information »

Séminaire Régional Francophone sur « Ressources Humaines et Financement Basé sur les Résultats en Santé : Enjeux et Perspectives » (Burkina Faso)

Learning Activity ID: HNP10-01-305
Dates: 09 Nov 2009 to 14 Nov 2009
Location: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
 

Activity Description:
Ce séminaire se veut essentiellement axé sur la pratique et vise les trois objectifs suivants : 1) Renforcer la capacité des décideurs en matière de planification et de gestion des Ressources Humaines en Santé (RHS), en (i) offrant un aperçu des meilleurs More Information »

Strengthening the Essential Public Health Functions

Learning Activity ID: HNP10-01-285
Dates: 27 Jan 2010 to 02 Jun 2010
Location: Washington DC, United States of America
   

Activity Description:
The Strengthening the Essential Public Health Functions 4 week course covers the 11 Essential Public Health Functions. The course develops leadership and competencies in the assessment and performance of the ‘Essential Public Health Functions’ (EPHF), More Information »

Information and the Media

The Role of Parliaments in Encouraging an Information Rich Society

Learning Activity ID: GOV10-01-471
Dates: 02 Nov 2009 to 10 Dec 2009
Location: Washington, DC, United States of America
 

Activity Description:
This module focuses on parliaments and ATI and will help parliaments to facilitate the flow of information between parliaments and the community via the media. More Information »

Macroeconomics and Economic Growth

Capital Flows and Financial Regulations Knowledge Exchange

Learning Activity ID: GCR10-00-034
Dates: 15 Mar 2010 to 19 Mar 2010
Location: Paris, France
   

Activity Description:
This policy seminar provides cutting edge analysis of the current issues in financial market turbulence and widening global imbalances, coupled with the heightening of risks to financial stability and global economic growth arising from (1) unprecedented More Information »

Impact of the Financial Crisis on Poverty and Analytical Tools E-Learning Course

Learning Activity ID: GCR10-00-055
Dates: 30 Nov 2009 to 19 Dec 2009
Location: Online, World Wide
   

Activity Description:
Over a period of three weeks, this ten-session on-line course on poverty analysis will emphasize the measurement and interpretation of poverty dynamics, or how poverty changes over time, and the concept of vulnerability to poverty. More Information »

Jobs for a Globalizing World: World Bank Labor Market Policy Core Course

Learning Activity ID: GCR10-00-028
Dates: 29 Mar 2010 to 09 Apr 2010
Location: Washington, DC, United States of America
   

Activity Description:
“Jobs for a Globalizing World: Labor Market Policy” is a two week course offering a unique learning experience on how employment is being transformed in today's rapidly changing, globalizing environment. It builds on the latest research findings by the More Information »

Preferential Trade Agreements for Development: Issues and Implications (joint with TRAPCA)

Learning Activity ID: GCR10-00-042
Dates: 30 Nov 2009 to 04 Dec 2009
Location: Arusha, Tanzania
   

Activity Description:
Preferential trade agreements are an increasingly present feature in trade policy making, with many countries belonging to more than two agreements. Agreements are also becoming more complex as the scope of cooperation covered goes well beyond industrial More Information »

Trade Policy for Development Executive Course

Learning Activity ID: GCR10-00-016
Dates: 05 Apr 2010 to 09 Apr 2010
Location: New York and Washington, DC, United States of America
 

Activity Description:
This flagship trade policy course, offered jointly with the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, will emphasize the economic and development implications of trade policy and negotiations (be it at the unilateral, multilateral, More Information »

Parliamentary Strengthening

The Role of Parliaments in Encouraging an Information Rich Society

Learning Activity ID: GOV10-01-471
Dates: 02 Nov 2009 to 10 Dec 2009
Location: Washington, DC, United States of America
 

Activity Description:
This module focuses on parliaments and ATI and will help parliaments to facilitate the flow of information between parliaments and the community via the media. More Information »

Private Sector Development

PPPI Days 2010

Learning Activity ID: IAT10-01-097
Dates: 22 Mar 2010 to 23 Mar 2010
Location: Manila, Philippines
 

Activity Description:
PPPI Days is as part of PPP Global Network a global networking event among PPP practitioners started in 2006. This year’s event will comprise of 2 days of knowledge sharing and side event of training and site visit to PPP projects. The last edition More Information »

Public Sector Development

PPPI Days 2010

Learning Activity ID: IAT10-01-097
Dates: 22 Mar 2010 to 23 Mar 2010
Location: Manila, Philippines
 

Activity Description:
PPPI Days is as part of PPP Global Network a global networking event among PPP practitioners started in 2006. This year’s event will comprise of 2 days of knowledge sharing and side event of training and site visit to PPP projects. The last edition More Information »

Urban Development

Climate Change and Disaster Risk

Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-110
Dates: 01 Mar 2010 to 28 Mar 2010
Location: New Delhi, India
 

Activity Description:
Weather-related disasters are on the rise and threaten the development gains and poverty alleviation efforts of many developing countries. At the same time, climate change is modifying the hazards triggering these disasters, leading to more severe impacts. More Information »

Earthquake Risk Mitigation Online Course

Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-111
Dates: 09 Nov 2009 to 06 Dec 2009
Location: India
 

Activity Description:
Earthquakes are a major source of death and devastation, but with appropriate risk reduction measures the destructions can be avoided. In order to reduce earthquake risk it is important to understand how earthquakes cause destruction, and how such destruction More Information »

Earthquake Risk Mitigation Online Course

Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-112
Dates: 15 Feb 2010 to 14 Mar 2010
Location: India
 

Activity Description:
Earthquakes are a major source of death and devastation, but with appropriate risk reduction measures the destructions can be avoided. In order to reduce earthquake risk it is important to understand how earthquakes cause destruction, and how such destruction More Information »

Executive Leadership Training for Tiger Range Countries, Cohort 1

Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-141
Dates: 01 Feb 2010 to 05 Feb 2010
Location: Washington, DC, United States of America
 

Activity Description:
Thirty senior policy makers, key opinion-shapers and decision-makers at civil society and private organizations from the thirteen Tiger Range Countries will undergo capacity enhancement along the following conservation leadership skills: tiger ecology; More Information »

Financial Strategies for Managing the Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters, Online Course : Philippines

Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-119
Dates: 16 Nov 2009 to 13 Dec 2009
Location: Philippines
   

Activity Description:
Global economic losses due to natural disasters are growing. Both direct and insured losses have increased at a faster rate than the number of events, revealing that the same hazard on average is causing larger damages. If disaster impacts are not anticipated More Information »

NIDM-WBI Community Based Disaster Risk Management Course

Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-105
Dates: 04 Jan 2010 to 31 Jan 2010
Location: New Delhi, India
 

Activity Description:
This course is a joint offering of National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi and World Bank Institute, Washington. The human causes of natural disasters find greater recognition today in the theory and practice of disaster management, and More Information »

NIDM-WBI Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management Framework On-line Course

Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-099
Dates: 14 Dec 2009 to 24 Jan 2010
Location: India
 

Activity Description:
This course addresses basic questions such as “why are disasters a development issue?” and “what are the components of comprehensive disaster risk management?” The course reviews the institutional arrangements and financing mechanisms of disaster management More Information »

NIDM-WBI Safe Cities On-line Course

Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-107
Dates: 01 Feb 2010 to 28 Feb 2010
Location: India
 

Activity Description:
By 2010, an estimated 50% of the population of developing countries will be living in cities and eight out of ten largest cities of the World will be in developing countries. Over three quarters of those cities are exposed to at least one natural hazard. More Information »

Risk Sensitive Land Use Planning Online Course

Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-113
Dates: 07 Dec 2009 to 03 Jan 2010
Location: India
 

Activity Description:
Urban population is expected to reach 5 billion by 2030. In the new urban millennium, natural and human made disasters are likely to have their greatest impact in cities where half of humanity is expected to reside. Land use planning presents a tool More Information »

Training of Trainors, Part 2

Learning Activity ID: URD10-00-144
Dates: 17 May 2010 to 18 Jun 2010
Location: Washington, DC, United States of America
 

Activity Description:
Trainors from regional and national training institutions will adapt and implement Tiger Conservation and Development courses and coalition building aimed at producing critical mass of tiger conservations in their region/country. Part 2 of this two-part More Information »