e-learning courses
This course explores the essential role that urban law plays in addressing the challenges of climate change. It delves into UN-Habitat’s Urban Law Module of the Law and Climate Change Toolkit which is a valuable resource for countries, local governments, professionals, academia, and other stakeholders seeking to adapt their urban planning and environmental regulations and policies to manage climate change effectively.
Start: This is a self-paced course.
- Module 1: Climate Change: What Is It and How Is It Being Addressed
- Module 2: Climate Change and Intersecting Vulnerabilities in Cities
- Module 3: The Urban Law Module of the Law and Climate Change Toolkit (LCCTK)
- Module 4: Implementation Guide for the Toolkit
National Urban Policies (NUP) have increasingly been adopted by countries in enhancing sustainable urban development and the achievement of the global agendas such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the New Urban Agenda (NUA). NUP was selected as one of the ten thematic policy units affirming the instrumental nature of the NUA in preparation of Habitat III. The NUA puts emphasis on NUP as one of the five pillars of implementation and encourages the need for capacity of the governments to develop and implement these policies. NUP have been proposed to be used as monitoring tools for the SDGs through indicator 11.a.1.
The course takes about 2 hours to complete.
The objective of this course is to understand:
- What NUP is and its role towards sustainable urbanization
- The NUP process and how it is conducted in practice
- How to conduct the NUP assessment/review
- How NUP relates to other sectors
Learn how to use technology and innovation to create better cities for all.
This course is for city leaders, policymakers, practitioners, and other stakeholders who want to understand how to use digital governance to improve urban management, promote transparency and accountability, and create more sustainable and inclusive cities.
This course is subdivided into 3 modules:
- Urban governance and the digital age in Africa
- The potential of innovative governance mechanisms for better services delivery in African cities
- Digital Governance for a better urban future in Africa
Each module lasts for around 2 to 3 hours and consists of 5 chapters.
The modules will help you to understand the approach of digital governance in African cities, from the definition of the concepts to recommendations and tools for implementation
This course provides an overall understanding of the significance of urban-rural linkages to sustainable urbanization and integrated territorial development. It also provides a detailed overview and methodologies of localizing the ‘URL-GP’ (Urban-Rural Linkages: Guiding Principles and Framework of Action)
The course conceived around the following premises:
- Moving away from “Learning about the URL-GP” to “Learning how to apply the URL-GP”.
- Moving away from “Learning through generic exercises/academic examples” to “Learning by doing” in a real-life project, that directly contributes to localizing the URL-GP and ultimately leads to implementation on the ground.
- Moving away from “Training of Trainers” classroom methodologies to “Self-taught and self-mentored, step-by-step and real-life learning processes”. The aim of the course is not to teach people about the URL-GP, but to guide people in how to apply the URL-GP in their areas of work