Training: Goals and Activities

• Goals
• Training Unit's Approach to Capacity Development: Endogenous Regional Development (EnRD)
• Activities

Goals

Especially since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in 1992, the UN has increasingly focused attention on sustainable development; however, nagging poverty and global environmental degradation are still posing serious threats to human security and sustainability. By means of training and capacity-building activities, with a special focus on the environment, human security, and disaster management, UNCRD commits itself to achieving the internationally-agreed development goals, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 and those agreed upon at the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in 2002, by utilizing the participatory multi-sectoral regional development approach which integrates the issues and challenges of economic, social, and environmental development.

The goal of UNCRD's training programme is to build the capacity of government officials in developing countries for sustainable regional development planning and management. And through this training and capacity-building activity, UNCRD supports developing countries in their efforts to comprehensively resolve various, but interlinked, problems. In this way, it is hoped that these countries can achieve the above internationally-targeted goals, and ultimately sustainable development.