MS TCDC Short Courses | This is the full information about the list of short courses offered at the MS Training Centre for Development Cooperation (MS-TCDC) and the deadline for Intake enrollment.
ECONOMIC LITERACY AND BUDGET ACCOUNTABILITY (ELBAG).
The Course aims to provide empowerment of people, ensure participation of poor and excluded, reduce corruption, increase accountability in the processes of governance and policy making, particularly with regards to budget formulation, economic planning and government decision making that impact their lives.
What you will learn – the key topics
- Framework of political economy
- Developing processes for economic literacy
- Tools for analysis of economic policies and budgets
- Toolkits for citizen based actions and experiences
FUNDRAISING AND GRANTS MANAGEMENT (FUNDAMENTALS)
This 10-day course introduces participants to current and emerging practices in institutional resource mobilisation, fundraising and grants management.
What you will learn – the key topics
- Fundamentals of resource mobilisation – fundraising and grants management
- Types of funding sources, prospect and evidence research, and ethical concerns
- Today’s borderless global village and the role of Internet based fundraising
- The diverse characteristics of public, private and nonprofit organizations and their differing fundraising needs and systems (inside the motivations for giving)
- Basic principles and practices of commercial marketing as applicable to fundraising
- The value addition of inter-agency cooperation (public, for profit and non-profit)
- Planning and running resource mobilisation campaigns, annual giving outreach
- Grant proposal writing, resource solicitation and networking techniques
MEASUREMENT OF DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE
The course has been crafted for seasoned development practitioners, policy makers and leaders in public and NGO sectors. You will learn the various synergies and constraints associated with the Sustainable Development Agenda and all its social-economic facets. You will interact with and critically examine the current global indicators, tools, methods and practices for monitoring and measuring progress on development such as the human development index.
What You Will Learn – The Key Topics
- Introduction to Sustainable Development and social change
- Economic, social and environmental dimensions to sustainable development
- How the global development agenda interacts with national development priorities
- Domestic political context and its effects on international cooperation
- The nature of social change, causal effects and how to measure them
- Methods and indicators for monitoring and measuring sustainable development
- Complexity of methods and tools in local and global statistical approaches
- Data for development, global data pressure and local statistics capacity
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