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Introducing the new Academy on the Green Economy

October 2014

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Introducing the new Academy on the Green Economy

When?

Where is PAGE active?

What is the PAGE Initiative?

October 2014

Background

Target Audience

Language Requirements for all

Format and Methodology

What is the learning objective of the Academy?

Selection Criteria for participants:

Active PAGE countries: Burkina Faso, Mauritius, Mongolia, Peru, and Senegal.

Upcoming countries: South Africa, Ghana and Vietnam have confirmed their interest and will soon become PAGE countries.

Government:

  • At least middle-level function in Ministries relevant to PAGE, i.e. environment, labour, industry, finance, education etc.;
  • The Ministry is acquainted with and committed to green economy or related topics (sustainable development, green growth, green jobs, green industries, etc.) and this is part of the candidate participant’s working area.

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The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) is a 7-year programme set to assist progressively a total of 30 countries in their efforts to transition to environmentally viable and socially inclusive economies. It was officially inaugurated in March 2014, at its first Global conference held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

PAGE seeks to create enabling conditions in participating countries by: identifying critical bottlenecks, assessing investment options and formulating policies to encourage the creation of a new generation of assets such as clean technologies, resource-efficient infrastructure, well-functioning ecosystems, green skilled labour, job-rich growth, and good governance.

Since its inception PAGE has started working with Burkina Faso, Mauritius, Mongolia, Peru, and Senegal. In each of these countries, stakeholder workshops and initial stock taking exercises inform a country-specific approach, reflecting the policy priorities and on-going initiatives to which PAGE can provide value added and make a strategic contribution.

The Academy targets a diverse group of participants including:

  • Policy makers, technical staff and stakeholders from civil society organizations, trade unions, employers’ organizations, cooperatives, knowledge and research institutions, in current PAGE partner countries;
  • Delegates from other interested countries which are adopting green economy strategies;
  • Staff and practitioners from collaborating/interested agencies and donors.

This first global Academy on the Green Economy offers a unique opportunity for training and global knowledge-sharing to help actively promote socially inclusive green economies.

The Rio+20 Declaration "The Future We Want" recognized a green economy as a vehicle for achieving sustainable development and poverty eradication. It called on the United Nations to support interested countries in developing greener and more inclusive economies.

In response to this call for action, UNEP, ILO, UNIDO, UNITAR and UNDP initiated the Partnership for Action on a Green Economy, or PAGE, as a voluntary and demand-driven mechanism of support to meet the increasing requests from countries seeking to develop and implement inclusive green economy strategies.

The PAGE capacity building strategy seeks to strengthen the knowledge and skills of national policymakers, technical staff, practitioners and other public and private sector stakeholders, to actively promote environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive economies through policy and strategy development. The Academy on the Green Economy precisely seeks to strengthen the knowledge and skills of current and potential PAGE countries.

The Academy will include:

  • High-Level Policy Forum and Knowledge Fair: This will be held the first two days (6-7 October) of the Academy with key delegates from PAGE countries, partner agencies and donors.
  • Plenary Sessions: These sessions treat overarching topics, in order to create common knowledge and understanding among participants and across the various policy areas covered by the Academy.
  • Elective Courses: Participants will choose among a number of electives, which cover certain themes in-depth. Consisting of 5-hour thematic workshops, each elective spans over one day and participants will follow six electives of their own preference.

Candidate understands and speaks the selected working language (English as a priority, but depending on number of applicants from French- and Spanish- speaking countries, the Academy may be bi- or trilingual – hence proficiency in one of these three languages is mandatory plus fluency in English preferred).

The selection committee will help ensure that country delegations consist of 50% women as a minimum and that regional balance is respected with the objective of reaching out countries at different stages of development.

The learning objective of the Academy on the Green Economy is to help participants to:

  • increase their ability to analyze the opportunities and challenges for the promotion of a socially inclusive green economy
  • gain in-depth understanding of suitable approaches, tested tools and best practices at national and sectoral levels that will contribute to building long term institutional capacities

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Vietnam

Non-Government:

  • Candidate belongs to a civil society, private sector and/or member-based representative organization relevant to PAGE;
  • In case the member-based organisation belongs to either IOE or ITUC network (i.e. formal constituent of the ILO, such as MEF in Maurtius), participants should be appointed through ILO departments in charge of social partners (i.e. workers and employers’ departments);
  • Candidate belongs to a research/knowledge institution recognized and endorsed by national or international partners.

Peru

Burkina Faso

Eligible candidates must comply with certain selection criteria:

Ghana

Mauritius

South Africa

The Academy will take place from

October 6 to October 17, 2014.

We look forward to seeing you in Turin!

Plenary Sessions

Elective Courses

Interested in participating?

Schedule of the Policy Forum

& Knowledge Fair

Do you need additional information?

What is the cost of the Academy?

High-Level Policy Forum and Knowledge Fair

Where?

Objectives

The High-Level Policy Forum and Knowledge Fair is designed to meet the needs of PAGE implementation.

  • It will contribute to greater understanding of policies and strategies for promoting inclusive green economies through PAGE country reviews and by providing a specific sectoral approach.
  • It thus aims to strengthen linkages and commitment among PAGE countries and its partners to build further action on the green economy.

For special queries, please contact:

greenjobs@itcilo.org

To apply for the Academy, please fill in the on-line registration form

(containing CV, personal and professional details and motivation as mandatory fields):

  • (English) http://intranetp.itcilo.org/STF/A907080/en

Candidates must also provide the following supporting mandatory documents:

  • Official nomination letter from the appointing institution and signed by the candidate’s supervisor (the letter should state the institutional motivation in taking this training opportunity, potential use of knowledge in the professional setting and confirm name and position of the selected delegate);
  • Scanned copy of valid national passport;
  • VISA for Italy, if applicable

The participation fee is EUR 3,500 which includes:

  • all training costs (tuition fees) as well as
  • full board and lodging,
  • study visits and
  • insurance (subsistence costs) during the entire duration of the Academy.

The High-Level Policy Forum and Knowledge Fair will take place on the first two days of the Academy: October 6-7.

Elective courses follow a participatory approach based on modern adult learning methodologies. Lectures will alternate with exercices, discussions, group work, knowledge sharing, case studies and individual assignments.

Participants will be able to choose each day from a wide array of topics, among which we can find:

- Skills needs assessment for a green economy;

- Sector approach: construction, waste management and recycling, renewable energy, agriculture & food processing;

- Green entrepreneurship;

- Social protection and inclusion in a green economy;

- Gender equality in the green economy;

The Academy will take place at the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC-ILO), located in Turin, Italy.

These sessions treat overarching topics, in order to create common knowledge and understanding among participants and across the various policy areas covered by the Academy.

The Centre is the training arm of the International Labour Organization. It runs training, learning and capacity development services for governments, employers' organizations ,workers' organizations and other national and international partners in support of Decent Work and sustainable development.

Participants

  • High-level Government officials from current and potential PAGE countries
  • PAGE donor representatives (Friends of PAGE)
  • Directors and staff of PAGE partnering agencies
  • Participants of the Academy on the Green Economy

A snapshot of the

ITC-ILO

Please note that your travel to and from Turin, Italy, is not included as well as visa application costs.

Please note that it is the responsibility of participants to apply for their visas in time to be able to attend the Academy.

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