Sustainable Business
Sharing Cities: Governance and Urban Sustainability
The sharing economy is booming! But what are the impacts on cities and sustainability? This course connects the sharing economy, cities, governance and urban sustainability to provide unique knowledge and insights into sharing cities. We utilize a diversity of leading examples of the emerging sharing economy in cities to bring this course to life.
Unleashing the Power of the Private Sector for the 2030 Agenda
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is unprecedented in its scope and ambition. The UN and governments have neither the reach nor the resources to implement it alone. Engagement, especially with the private sector, is imperative for the 2030 Agenda to succeed.
ITCILO Project and programme cycle management
Amongst the most notable skill deficiencies was proficiency in project and programme cycle management (PPCM). PPCM provides an overall analytical and decision-making framework for results-based management. Proficient use of PPCM techniques is essential when it comes to ensuring that programmes and projects are relevant, feasible and effective in promoting development.
ITCILO Procurement management
It cuts across all economic sectors and constitutes 15–30 per cent of the gross domestic product in most countries, hence its significance for enhancing market competitiveness and sustainable development. Setting up effective national public procurement systems has often been a challenge, not least because of a deficit in competent human resources and the need to keep up to date with the ever-increasing complexity of the legal framework, the globalization of markets, and sophisticated contractual and tendering systems.
Circular Economy – Sustainable Materials Management
This course looks at where important materials in products we use every day come from and how these materials can be used more efficiently, longer, and in closed loops. This is the aim of the Circular Economy, but it doesn’t happen on its own. It is the result of choices and strategies by suppliers, designers, businesses, policymakers and all of us as consumers.
ITCILO Green building and construction: Pathway towards inclusive growth and the creation of decent and green jobs
Faced with the increased demand for affordable quality housing, many countries in Africa, Asia and South America have recognized the potential of green building and construction in terms of social, economic and environmental development. Greening the building and construction industry can lead to the creation of a significant number of green and decent jobs, while contributing to environmental sustainability and improving access to quality housing, especially for lower and middle-income population groups.
Circular Economy: An Introduction
Our global society is not sustainable. We all know about the challenges we’re facing: waste, climate change, resource scarcity, loss of biodiversity. At the same time, we want to sustain our economies and offer opportunities for a growing world population. This course is about providing solutions we really believe in: a Circular Economy.
In this course we explore the Circular Economy: how businesses can create value by reusing and recycling products, how designers can come up with amazingly clever solutions, and how you can contribute to make the Circular Economy happen.
E-Learning Series on Business Process Analysis for Trade Facilitation
The Agenda for Sustainable Development suggests that the world should transform its natural-resource-dependent growth pattern into a ‘sustained, inclusive and sustainable’ one. Trade has a long-established record in creating compelling successes in economic growth, and for sustainable development, it can drive the efforts to achieve specific targets under Sustainable Development Goals through increased exchange of goods and services, and can further contribute to generating finance to pursue the social and environment progresses.