Singapore-UNCRD Joint Training Programme: Africa Training Course on Urban and Regional Development Planning and Management

Event Date
From 15 Apr 2008 to 28 Apr 2008
Time
From 4:00am to 4:00am (UTC)
Location
Singapore

Dates: 15-28 April 2008

Place: Singapore

 

Background

The main objective of the training course is to provide African planners with requisite knowledge and analytical skills to design effective, socially acceptable, and environmentally sound sustainable urban and regional development policies and programmes.

More specifically, the training course aims at:

  • Improving the participants' knowledge and understanding of the broad range of urban issues to be addressed by African countries;
  • Providing opportunities for African planners to learn from the effective urban management experiences of Singapore;
  • Facilitating exchange of experience and ideas while establishing institutional linkages between African and Asian planners; and
  • Promoting South-South cooperation by building and strengthening institutional linkages between African and Asian training and planning institutions.

(Office: UNCRD Africa Office)