Global Certificate in Development Cooperation Practices and Approaches

• Principles of Development Cooperation: An overview of the key principles that guide development cooperation, including ownership, alignment, harmonization, results, and mutual accountability. This unit will provide a solid foundation for understanding the broader context of development cooperation practices and approaches.

• Partnerships for Development: An exploration of the importance of effective partnerships in development cooperation, including multi-stakeholder partnerships, south-south cooperation, and triangular cooperation. This unit will cover best practices for building and maintaining successful partnerships, as well as strategies for overcoming common challenges.

• Policy Coherence for Development: An examination of the concept of policy coherence for development, which involves ensuring that all policies and actions of a country, relevant to development cooperation, contribute to the achievement of sustainable development goals. This unit will cover the importance of policy coherence, the challenges in achieving it, and strategies for promoting it.

• Capacity Development for Development Cooperation: A focus on the role of capacity development in development cooperation, including the identification of capacity needs, the design and implementation of capacity development initiatives, and the monitoring and evaluation of capacity development outcomes. This unit will cover best practices for capacity development, as well as common challenges and strategies for overcoming them.

• Results-Based Management in Development Cooperation: An introduction to results-based management, which is an approach to management that focuses on achieving specific, measurable outcomes. This unit will cover the principles of results-based management, the tools and techniques used to implement it, and the challenges and limitations of this approach.

• Development Cooperation in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations: A focus on the unique challenges and opportunities of development cooperation in fragile and conflict-affected situations. This unit will cover the principles for engaging in development cooperation in these contexts, as well as the strategies and tools used to support development in these challenging environments.

• Monitoring and Evaluation in Development Cooperation: An examination of the role of monitoring and evaluation in development cooperation