The course will form part of SD-Learning: a capacity building event that aims to provide participants with practical knowledge and hands-on training from experts around the world. One of the courses will be selected by the public and we are therefore asking LEAD's Fellows, partners and friends to vote for us!
LEAD has submitted a proposal to run a course on sustainable cities at the Rio+20 Conference in June 2012. The course will form part of SD-Learning: a capacity building event that aims to provide participants with practical knowledge and hands-on training from experts around the world. One of the courses will be selected by the public and we are therefore asking LEAD's Fellows, partners and friends to vote for us!
LEAD's proposed course, 'Putting People First: Building Sustainable Cities with Communities,' captures the learning and experience of three outstanding LEAD Fellows: John Lewis (LEAD Canada), Leonardo Martins Diaz (LEAD Europe) and Anton de Wit (LEAD Southern and Eastern Africa).
Together these Fellows have over 30 years' experience of working in sustainable cities around the world and identifying the local and global challenges in urban sustainable development. The main focus of the course will be on people: how to make the 'invisible people' visible; how to give back to displaced communities a 'sense of place'; and how to enable the type of collaborative decision-making that leads to the creation and ownership of sustainable communities. Sustainable communities are the building blocks of sustainable cities.
As a result of the course, participants will learn how to use a number of innovative tools and techniques for strengthening collaborative decision-making and making communities more resilient. We also hope that the course will create an informal global network of people working in the area of sustainable cities.
Please help to make LEAD's proposal successful - click here to vote for us!
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