TRAINING | UNDESA and UNITAR's MOOC on Integrated Recovery Planning and Policy Coherence Towards the SDGs

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Background

This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) was developed by the Division for Sustainable Development Goals and the Division of Public Institutions and Digital Governance of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). The objective of the self-paced e-learning course is to strengthen the capacity of National Stakeholders to design, adapt and implement integrated and coherent plans and policies and improved decision making among national stakeholders (policy makers, senior planners, civil society, academics and private sector) involved in recovery planning (i.e., COVID-19) and rebuilding towards SDGs implementation.

Course content

This online course consists of five modules:

• Module 1. Introduction to Integrated Recovery Planning and Policy Coherence towards SDGs
• Module 2. Mobilizing Stakeholders to Envision Success
• Module 3. Systems Thinking to Understand Connections and Leverage Points
• Module 4. Back-casting and Scenario Analysis to Identify Strategic Policy Options and Transformative Policy Pathways
• Module 5. Coherent and Adaptive Implementation of Transformative Policy Pathways

Target audience

The course is open to everyone. However, the main target audience of this self-paced e-learning course is senior policymakers from Planning Ministries, line ministries, civil society organizations, academia, and the private sector.

Registration/enrollment

This MOOC is free and self-paced.