External training opportunities on governance
Here below you find a list of links to external training opportunities, grouped according to the topics of SDC's Governance Network.
Decentralisation, Democracy, Public Governance, Local Governance, Federalism, Elections
Center for Development and Cooperation NADEL, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
The Center for Development and Cooperation (NADEL) offers the following courses on the topic of governance:
- Comprehensive 2 years long Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in development and Cooperation
- Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Development and Cooperation is a 30 courses long over a period of 6-8 weeks certificate
- Individual continuous learning courses on various current topics and methodologies of development cooperation, including on peace, governance, gender
Swiss School of Public Governance, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Offers an onsite CAS (Certificate of Advanced Studies) in Public Governance and Administration focusing on contemporary governance, public management and policy domains.
- Check website for offers on MAS, CS and short courses
School for Continuing Education, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg – Summer University on Federalism, Switzerland
The institute offers an onsite summer course where participants study comparative theory and practice of federalism, decentralized governance, forms of power sharing and their links with good governance, democracy, development and conflict resolution. The summer course has a more academic focus in one year (= summer academy) and target more practitioners the other year (= practitioners course)
Swisspeace, Switzerland
Offers various onsite courses linking peace building, State building and Human Rights, i.e. on peacebuilding and institutional reform in post-conflict settings.
- Check website for next dates
The Hague Academy for Local Governance, Netherlands
The academy offers several onsite courses each year on different topics relating to local governance, i.e. municipal finance, peacebuilding, gender, conflicts, etc.
- Check out website for next dates
Duke Sanford University, Duke Center for International Development, USA
The university offers summer onsite courses on different topics, mainly on public finance aspects of governance, i.e. Fiscal Decentralization and Local Government Financial Management, Tax Analysis and Revenue Forecasting.
World Bank Open Learning Campus WBA Academy, USA
The campus offers different online courses, some free, some with a tuition, some self-paced or facilitated on different topics of the SDC governance themes: Local Finance, Local Governance, Social Cohesion, Social inclusion, etc.
- Login to check the dates and fees on website
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), Sweden
As SDC is a partner agency of International IDEA, it can request to set up some specific virtual training sessions (2h-3h each) targeting SDC staff/Swiss diplomats and diplomats from other Member States of International IDEA. Dedicated training can be organized on: Monitoring and supporting electoral processes / Constitution building and reform / Measuring and analyzing the state of democracy / Parliaments and representatives institutions / Inclusive democratic processes and institutions / Partnerships and policy advocacy for democracy at the multilateral level / Money in Politics / key challenges and opportunities to democracy in the world’s key regions.
- If interested, please contact SDC’s PGE section, Mr. Hanspeter Wyss (WHA): hanspeter.wyss@eda.admin.ch, direct pone number: +41 58 46 96429.
Anti-Corruption
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Center, Norway
U4 Online courses: As SDC is a partner agency of U4, SDC staff can take all courses without participation fee. The U4 training offer includes: 1) General courses on Corruption Risk Management and on Anti-corruption programming principles in development, both self-paced and expert led courses - 2) Specific courses on corruption prevention in sector-specific topics, i.e. natural resources, health, justice, gender, etc.
- Please check website
Tailor-made in-country courses: Every year, U4 selects, in consultation with member agencies, a number of country-specific workshops and engagements. This based on a call for applications distributed to partner agencies in the fall for the previous year.
Basel Institute on Governance BIG, International Centre for Asset Recovery ICAR, Switzerland
ICAR manages the Basel LEARN online learning platform designed to help law enforcement, anti-money laundering and compliance professionals gain new skills to fight financial crime. It offers a host of free interactive online courses and practical guidelines.
- Check website for courses
The Hague Academy for Local Governance, Netherlands
Among their different types of course, offers sometimes also a course on Integrity and anti-corruption.
- Vitis their website for more information
Political Economy Analysis PEA
The Policy Practice, UK
Conducts-tailor-made workshops on Political Economy Analysis in- country or regionally. Offers an online course on PEA methodology
- Visit their website for more information