What? An 8-week, self-paced training program in designing a sustainable development project working in partnership with local community members. By the end of the 8 weeks, you will have designed a project complete with evidence based activities. You will have written a project logframe in preparation for the next course—OL 102—where you will develop a full set of donor documents in preparation for funding.
Start Small—Think Big:
We teach sustainable development by helping participants start real projects in real communities.
Learn by doing. Learn Sustainable Development Online. Advance your Career, Raise Funds and Solve Challenges. This Sustainable Development Course is for Nonprofit/NGO and donor staff—and job-seekers wanting to successfully solve community challenges sustainably. Participants work on projects as diverse as food security, water, health, income generation, adaptation to climate change, gender and education. The course will lead you through the development of similar, real projects, in real time, in your own country.
How? A dual approach will be used in this course:
1. The course will lead you through the development of a real project, in real time, and leave you with the practical field tools to sustain it. We are committed to achieving results-based sustainable development goals.
2. For long-term sustainability you will learn to incorporate community identified need into the design of your project and research project activities that have shown evidence of having worked at solving challenges.
Who should take this course?
1. This course is perfect for nonprofit/development professionals working in areas such as food security, watershed management, agriculture, the environment, sustainable development, or DRR—and who want to develop practitioner-level skills. If you are a grant writer, nonprofit staff member, consultant, project manager—or an executive director—you will develop real skills mastery.
2. This course is just as relevant to a person considering a career transition into the nonprofit/development world and wanting to develop employable skills.