The short course on Local Governance and Rural Decentralization will be held 11-22 February 2013 in the Netherlands.
The training programme is organized by the Centre for Development Innovation at Wageningen University and Research Centre. Candidates from the following developing countries can apply for fellowship opportunity to participate in this course through the Nuffic – Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP).
List of eligible countries for NFP: Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Autonomous Palestinian Territories, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, DR. Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kenya, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mali, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Surinam, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
The course will be able to deal with the complexity of governance and the engagement with multiple actors, each with their own ambitions; have a good understanding of your organisation’s current and desired position, roles, and interests in relation to local governance for rural development and sustainable natural resources management; be able to work with multi-stakeholder and social learning concepts and methodologies for institutional change, and to reflect on them.
The course is suitable for those involved in governance processes in the context of rural decentralisation; you are a government official, project or programme manager, policy maker, consultant, NGO staff, or a member of a federation of community organisations or private sector organisations.
The deadline to submit applications for securing fellowships for this course through The Netherlands Fellowship Programme is 1 May 2012. For more information, visit this link.
