Basic
considerations for the development of Training and Capacity
Building Programmes in Sustainable
Development:
All training courses and programmes have to be
demand oriented and customer tailored,
catering the training need of well defined groups of participants
directly and efficiently supporting them in their professional
work; wherever possible and applicable training should be conducted
on-the-job and organised around existing professional tasks of the
participants (studies etc.);
It is not advisable to develop the capacity
building and training programmes as a fixed and detailed list of
measures. It should rather be developed in steps and phases,
considering programme development as a process of
continuous reaction to a changing demand. This means that training
measures should be offered on a priority basis for example on the
basis of explicitly formulated demands from the stakeholders and
institutions concerned. All programmes have to provide enough
flexibility to react to new training needs at any time without much
delay;
All training measures are geared to
strengthen institutional capacities either of the
environmental administration or of institutions concerned with
result use with the objective to further improve their competence.
The training measures have therefore not only to be designed to
train individual participants but simultaneously to meet
institutional capacity building objectives;
Any capacity building programme should ultimately
lead to the establishment or the strengthening of a Capacity
Building Infrastructure for the targeted sector, including
all training forms and institutions (in-house training; training at
universities; professional education; training at special training
institutes; distance training etc.).
