EDNA Institute for Capacity Building & Consulting.
EDNA Institute for Capacity Building & Consulting “herein referred to as Centre” is a Centre of Excellence (CoE) established to deliver tailor-made professional training to individuals and organizations who desire to:
- ● Gain a better understanding of climate change and climate change policies.
- ● Improve their skills and mindset and attitude change for engagement in the climate change debate.
- ● Enhance career development opportunities.
The Centre will administer courses on Diplomacy, Arts and Skills of Negotiations to individuals and organizations that plan to engage, or desire to enhance their skills and knowledge, in the process of the negotiations in domestic, regional and international multi-lateral agreements. In addition, the Centre will also offer courses on leadership skills at a work place, on professional speaking and communication skills, and how to strike a balance between work and life, the concept of artificial intelligence, business coaching, and the development of company and organizational profiles, including drafting of vision, goals and mission statements. In addition, the Centre will undertake other services including research to find answers and foster climate solutions for thought-provoking topics in climate change and other areas that may require such responses.
Further, the Centre will offer capacity building/ training women working in government and other institutions who desire to become negotiators or improve their negotiation skills. The course on training will be useful in changing the mindset of decision makers in order to make a difference, also hoping that these female trainees will be included consistently in the national/ group delegations so they can learn on the ground about the dynamics and content of negotiations and therefore solidify their capacity to take leaders roles and influence the outcomes
Outcomes
Through the services offered, the Center aims to achieve the following key outcomes:
● Enhanced capacity and preparedness.
● New skills and knowledge gained and developed.
● New skills for solving problems developed.
● Informed climate solutions offered across different sectors.
● Capacity built on project design
Courses to be offered
Mode of delivery: Face-to-face and on-line.
| SN | Course | Course duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Fundamentals and the building blocks of climate change.The course will provide basics on climate change science and the building blocks for its management. |
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| 2 |
Current science and projections.The course will present the origins of climate change, its triggers and drivers, levels of carbon concentration in the atmosphere, and peaking points for the Planet Earth. |
3 hours |
| 3 |
Understanding the Governing Policy and Practice Instruments
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3 hours |
| 4 |
MitigationDefinition, commitments, peaking, measures for avoiding, reducing, abating, sequestering, capturing, phasing down of carbon emissions. |
3 hours |
| 5 |
Adaptation and resilienceMeasures for managing impacts of climate change. |
3 hours |
| 6 |
Green economy measuresThe course will provide basics for understanding how investments can contribute to sustainable economic growth through a change in production and consumption patterns, and its contribution to employment and skills development. |
3 hours |
| 7 |
Climate finance(definition, principles, sources, channels and instruments). |
3 hours |
| 8 |
Loss and damage associated with impacts of climate change. |
3 hours |
| 9 |
Diplomacy, Art, and Skills for Multi-Lateral Negotiations.The course will provide the key principles of negotiations, including preparedness, decision-making and how to make an intervention. Decision makers involved in contract negotiations, and beginners that are venturing in the process of multi-lateral negotiations will benefit from this course. |
5 hours |
| 10 |
Introduction to carbon trading/Emissions trading schemes (ETS).The course will provide the background and concept of carbon trading, approaches and types of the markets, principles and cycle for project review, positive and negative list, institutional arrangements. |
4 hours |
| 11 |
Leadership, Work organizational & Motivational skills. |
3 hours |
| 12 |
Professional speaking and communications skills. |
2 hours |
| 13 |
Work/ Life balance. |
1 hour |
| 14 |
Artificial intelligence. |
2 hours |
| 15 |
Business coaching. |
3 hours |
| 16 |
Development of Company/ Organizational Profile,including Vision, Mission, Purpose and Goals – to showcase a company’s professional brand to targeted audience with essential information about the company. |
3 hours |
| 17 |
Preparation of Environmental AuditsTo assist investors and developers identify environmental compliance and management system implementation gaps, along with their corrective actions. |
2 hours |
| 18 |
Coaching on Grant fundingTo mentor grant-seekers such as non-profit, a business, or an individual get a grant from a grant maker eg. government, corporation, foundation or a trust, for various purposes such as research, education or social welfare. |
3 hours |
| 19 |
Sustainability ConceptMeasures to enable a process/ project be maintained or supported over time. |
2 hours |
| 20 |
Project design & developmentCapacity building/ Coaching to organizations and individuals to design and put in place project plans to achieve planned deliverables, including determining project objectives, as well as the timeline and budget, and the steps to ensure success, beginning with the project’s plan. |
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| 21 |
Consulting
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