international development short courses - UEA [PDF]

THE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2016

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SHORT COURSES

WHY CHOOSE

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AT UEA? International Development UEA has pioneered research, training and consultancy in international development for nearly 50 years. It works with a range of clients including national and international development agencies, governments and NGOs. International Development UEA is the ideal broad-based multidisciplinary environment in which to undertake training. The faculty has a wide range of academic disciplines with an intensive engagement in development practice through academic funded research and consultancy in many development arenas and geographical regions. The University of East Anglia is an internationally renowned university on a distinctive and attractive campus just outside the historic city of Norwich. Our research led short courses seek to educate, inform and promote discussion and networking between participants and our researchers. They provide cutting edge training on the most pertinent and relevant topics in international development. Join us!

THE SHORT COURSES 16–27 MAY 2016

FOREST GOVERNANCE OPERATIONALISING EQUITY AND JUSTICE IN REDD+, PES AND FLEGT

4–7

6–17 JUNE 2016

IMPACT EVALUATION FOR EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY IN DEVELOPMENT

8–11

20–24 JUNE 2016

WATER SECURITY FOR POLICY MAKERS AND PRACTITIONERS

12–15

20 JUNE – 1 JULY 2016

RESEARCHING GENDER – CONCEPTS AND METHODS

16–19

4–11 JULY 2016

CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT

20–23

HOW TO APPLY | 24 BESPOKE TRAINING | 25 SCHOLARSHIPS | 26 NORWICH | 27

EMAIL [email protected] | TELEPHONE +44 (0)1603 592340 www.uea.ac.uk/international-development/professional-training Training and Skills Development Office, International Development UEA, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ

www.uea.ac.uk/international-development/professional-training

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SHORT COURSES 2016 | 3

FOREST GOVERNANCE

OPERATIONALISING EQUITY AND JUSTICE IN REDD+, PES AND FLEGT

16–27 MAY 2016 | 20 places

TARGET AUDIENCE This course is designed for managerial level professionals of government institutions, civil society organisations, donor agencies, international organisations and the private sector who are involved in negotiating agreements and/or designing, implementing and monitoring forest governance schemes such as REDD+, PES and FLEGT.

THE COURSE FEE £3,100 – this includes all tuition, Bed and Breakfast accommodation, daily lunches and refreshments.

COURSE DIRECTOR The course is directed by Dr Oliver Springate-Baginski. A collaborative arrangement between UEA and the Centre for People and Forests (RECOFTC) enables us to bring together world leading researchers and practitioners, and ensures a grounded approach for facilitating the operationalisation of justice in forest governance schemes.

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT The course is conducted in English. Full competence in English, written and spoken is an essential requirement.

4

JUSTICE MATTERS IN FOREST GOVERNANCE Policy debates and on-the-ground work on new forest governance schemes, such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), Payments for Environmental Services (PES) and Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT), increasingly focus on the need to enhance equity and serve the essential rights and needs of people. These justice concerns are particularly expressed in discussions on the recognition of rights, participation of stakeholders, sharing of benefits, and development of grievance mechanisms. Whilst there is a growing understanding of the value of social justice in forest governance, creating a win-win environment for communities, governments and companies, turning rhetoric into reality remains slow and challenging. With the appropriate tools in hand, practitioners can operationalise justice in REDD+, PES and FLEGT beyond the application of ‘do no harm’ principles and social safeguards. This is pivotal for developing socially sound and effective forest governance schemes that maximise benefits for communities, governments and companies.


FOREST GOVERNANCE CLIMATE CHANGE – OPERATIONALISING EQUITY AND JUSTICE IN REDD+, PES AND FLEGT AND DEVELOPMENT THIS NEW SHORT COURSE PROVIDES MANAGERIAL LEVEL PROFESSIONALS WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND TOOLS NEEDED TO DESIGN, IMPLEMENT AND MONITOR MORE EQUITABLE AND JUST FOREST GOVERNANCE SCHEMES. By combining theory and practice, the course offers an excellent setting to reflect on justice challenges in forest governance, to exchange experiences with researchers and experts, and to develop personal action plans. On completion of the course participants will: – Understand the importance of equity and justice in the successful development and implementation of REDD+, PES and FLEGT and the challenges therein. – Grasp the relevant global norms, national policies and practical tools (FPIC, Participatory Governance Assessments, Timber Legality Assurance System, etc) for enhancing equity and justice of REDD+, PES and FLEGT. – Identify and understand the ways to apply appropriate approaches to operationalise equity and justice in REDD+, PES and FLEGT.

– The practical dimension reflects on ways to respond to equity concerns and to operationalise social justice in REDD+, PES and FLEGT. Mainstreaming justice in policy formulation and implementation as well as in actions of recognition of rights, participation, benefit sharing and grievance mechanisms are also examined. Participants are given tools that facilitate engaging with actors and trigger change at different levels. Finally, personal action plans are created.

COURSE DELIVERY

COURSE CONTENT The course is composed of three dimensions: theoretical, policy and practical. The teaching draws on recent experience from Asia, Africa and Latin America. – The Theoretical dimension introduces justice as an analytical framework for addressing social aspects of REDD+, PES and FLEGT at global, national and local levels. It reflects on why justice matters in forest governance, looks at different dimensions of justice and considers actors involved and their experiences on the ground. Concepts such as the recognition of rights, participation and benefit sharing are examined. – The Policy dimension analyses the integration of justice in international and national policy

6 | INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SHORT COURSES 2016

agreements, frameworks and instruments related to REDD+, PES and FLEGT. The way in which these instruments consider the most vulnerable people is discussed as well as the way in which they can be used to enhance social justice. Particular attention is paid to REDD+ social and environmental safeguards and FLEGT legality definitions.

The learning environment uses participatory learning and student centred approaches and tools such as presentations, group discussions, debates and case study analysis. The organisers aim to offer a stimulating environment for reflection and development of ideas for practical action. Participants will design an engagement process for improving equity and justice within their own work context. The course is accompanied by an electronic course (MOOC) on environmental justice that will be available through the FutureLearn platform (www.futurelearn.com) prior to the course. Follow-up sessions, in the form of group or personal mentoring, are also offered.


IMPACT EVALUATION

FOR EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY IN DEVELOPMENT

6–17 JUNE 2016 | 20 places*

TARGET AUDIENCE

COURSE DIRECTOR

Early and mid-level professionals, postgraduate students and academics with interests in or working with international agencies, governments, think-tanks, NGOs and other donor organisations. Anyone whose work requires them to understand the methods used in evidence-based policy making in order to evaluate and justify continued public spending on particular programmes.

The course is directed by Dr Maren Duvendack and Dr Richard Palmer-Jones

THE COURSE FEE £3,100 – includes all tuition, accommodation, daily lunches and refreshments.

8

*Minimum number of participants required to run the course: 13

COURSE REQUIREMENTS The course is conducted in English. Full competence in English, written and spoken is an essential requirement. A working knowledge of basic statistics. At the application stage we will provide a self-assessment test for you to judge your level of statistical skills. The course includes a brief revision of statistics up to multiple linear regression.


IMPACT EVALUATION CLIMATE CHANGEFOR EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY IN DEVELOPMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IT HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT TO USE ‘EVIDENCE-BASED’ CRITERIA TO DECIDE WHAT KIND OF PROGRAMMES WORK, HOW, FOR WHOM, IN WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES AND AT WHAT COST. Much evidence is quantitative in nature and this course aims to enable participants to understand, critique and make effective use of such evidence. While the course focuses on issues of attribution – tracing out cause and effect – and quantification, it is also concerned with the context, criteria and limitations of evidence-based quantitative evaluations. The course therefore aims to address an important prerequisite for incorporating impact evaluation (IE) into programme design: a theoretical and practical understanding of IE approaches to enable selection of appropriate methodologies, coupled with careful appraisal of the resulting evidence. Thus, participants will be introduced to current quantitative as well as qualitative evaluation techniques for impact evaluation and gain critical understanding of the roles they can play in the design and assessment of public policy and development interventions.

COURSE CONTENT Teaching will consist of interactive lectures, group discussions and several worked-through examples (which involves working in a computer lab using STATA) where participants will analyse data from established IE examples that are drawn from development literature and elsewhere.

“IT WILL INTRODUCE YOU TO THE TECHNIQUES AND CONCEPTS YOU NEED TO KNOW, AND PROVIDE YOU WITH A WEALTH OF MATERIAL WHICH YOU CAN STUDY IN GREATER DEPTH WHEN THE COURSE CONCLUDES.”

The main areas of course content include: – Theories and practices of evaluation in public policy – The evaluation problem: Attribution, selection and placement biases – Evaluation research designs – Randomised control trials – Quasi-experimental designs – Qualitative evaluation designs – Sampling and power calculation – Econometric techniques for impact evaluation – Revision of basic econometrics – Instrumental variables technique – Propensity score matching – Regression discontinuity – Difference-in-difference estimation – Systematic reviews and meta-analysis in development – Replication and research ethics.

TEACHING TEAM This course has been developed by Dr Maren Duvendack and Dr Richard Palmer-Jones who are both development economists with extensive evaluation experience in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, especially microfinance, irrigation, agriculture and poverty reduction. Additional tutors will be drawn from the School of International Development UEA, and where possible from the Overseas Development Institute and 3ie. Regular contributors to the course include Dr Ben D’Exelle, Dr Bereket Kebede and Dr Laura Camfield.



WATER SECURITY FOR POLICY MAKERS AND PRACTITIONERS

20–24 JUNE 2016 | 20 places

TARGET AUDIENCE

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT

The course is designed for entry and midlevel water and development policy-makers and professionals in government, donor, NGO or implementing agencies as well as for environmental journalists, consultants and activists.

The course is conducted in English. Full competence in English, written and spoken is an essential requirement.

THE COURSE FEE

Participants will acquire a wide variety of tools and analytical frameworks from a variety of disciplines and an extended understanding of this key national and global issue. They will leave the course with an ability to critically assess and address current water security policy and to gain an appreciation of the relations between water security and energy, climate, food, human and national security. Participants will also substantially develop their networks and resource bases.

£1,800 – includes all tuition, Bed and Breakfast accommodation, daily lunches and refreshments.

COURSE DIRECTOR The course is co-directed by Dr Jessica Budds and Dr Naho Mirumachi. The teaching team is drawn from senior academics, researchers and practitioners with a wide range of expertise and experience.

“VERY WELL ORGANISED WITH A PERFECT COMBINATION OF THEORY AND PRACTICAL EXERCISES. THE DIFFERENT PARTICIPANTS’ BACKGROUNDS HELPED TO STIMULATE THE DISCUSSIONS.” SHORT COURSE STUDENT 12


WATER SECURITY FOR POLICY MAKERS AND PRACTITIONERS BRINGING TOGETHER KEY STRENGTHS IN WATER POLITICS, CLIMATE CHANGE, AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT AND WATER ALLOCATION, THIS COURSE WILL PROVIDE PARTICIPANTS WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL CHANCE TO ACQUIRE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THIS KEY GLOBAL ISSUE. COURSE CONTENT

Topics that will be covered include:

The course will provide policy-makers and professionals with comprehensive background knowledge relevant to the increasingly important policy challenge of ‘water security’. The course explores how the multiple levels of water security – human, community, state, international and global – require broad but considered policy inputs. Emphasis will be placed on the inter-dependencies of different sectors (climate security, food security, energy security) that interact within a ‘web’ of water security. The implications for national security and human security will be interpreted through an appreciation that water security for some can mean water insecurity for others. The importance of shifting global climate and trade patterns in the international political economy will further be incorporated. The teaching team seamlessly incorporates both natural and social sciences. Leading practitioner and academic professionals will deliver the 11 main topics and offer networking opportunities through the UEA Water Security Research Centre and the London Water Research Group. Lecture sessions focusing on theory and concepts will be supplemented and tested with applied sessions through gaming and role plays, where participants will be able to discuss and compare their experiences. The primary geographical focus is Africa, Asia and Latin America, but we also draw on the participants’ own areas of interest.


– Water security fundamentals – Water resources security and water scarcity – Climate change security and water security – Water sharing through the River Basin Game – Food security, agriculture and water security – Transboundary water security and hydropolitics – Global trade, global political economy and water – Development and water – Power and water security.

TEACHING TEAM Dr Jessica Budds has extensive academic and policy research experience in the political economy of water and development with a focus on Latin America. She is Senior Lecturer in the School of International Development and Director of the UEA Water Security Research Centre. Dr Naho Mirumachi specialises in the politics of water resources and has a particular interest in water allocation and river basin management issues in developing country contexts. She is a lecturer in the Department of Geography at King’s College London, co-convenes the London Water Research Group and is visiting research fellow at the UEA Water Security Research Centre. Regular contributors include Prof Tony Allan (KCL/London Water Research Group), Prof Declan Conway (LSE), Dr Marisa Goulden (UEA), Prof Kevin Hiscock (UEA), Prof Bruce Lankford (UEA), Dr David Tickner (WWF/UEA) and Dr Mark Zeitoun (UEA).


RESEARCHING GENDER – CONCEPTS AND METHODS

20 JUNE – 1 JULY 2016 | 20 places

“DESPITE PROGRESS TOWARDS GENDER EQUALITY GLOBALLY, THERE IS STILL A LONG WAY TO GO, A HOST OF NEW PROBLEMS TO CONFRONT, VARYING IN INTENSITY ACROSS ISSUES AND CONTEXTS.” TARGET AUDIENCE Social scientists based in research and development organisations and research programme consortia.

THE COURSE FEE £3,100 – includes all tuition, accommodation, daily lunches and refreshments.

COURSE DIRECTOR The course is jointly directed by Prof Nitya Rao and Dr Laura Camfield, with additional teaching from Prof Cecile Jackson and Dr Catherine Locke.


Despite progress towards gender equality globally, there is still a long way to go, a host of new problems to confront, varying in intensity across issues and contexts. Women have been targeted to deliver on global goals around food and nutrition security, education and health, and indeed poverty reduction, yet it is evident that technical solutions that have targeted women have failed to deliver adequately. There is a growing realisation that this has resulted from a lack of understanding of gender and wider social relations that mediate such outcomes on the ground. Without addressing issues of power and social change directly, progress is unlikely to be sustainable. Most donor organisations and research consortia now recognise the need to mainstream a rigorous gender analysis in their work to ensure production of evidence that can better predict outcomes of development policy interventions, however, the capacity to deal with complexity is limited. This course will critically examine common assumptions and identify and characterise key social variables that are hypothesised to influence development outcomes, in particular access to resources and their allocation within and beyond the household. Participants will develop an understanding of key gender concepts and the methods that can facilitate the design, collection and analysis of gender-sensitive data with potential to provide insights into larger processes of social and livelihood change.

16


RESEARCHING GENDER – CONCEPTS AND METHODS CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT

COURSE CONTENT

– Basic concepts of gender and gender research (specifically concepts of gender, power, and agency). – Understanding intra- and inter-household relations, social institutions and processes of social change and well-being. – The epistemological foundations of social science research. – Evaluating alternate methodologies (longitudinal) research, panel datasets, case studies and methods. – Developing a research design using a range of methods (quantitative and qualitative) to access different kinds of data. – Sessions will link theory to practice, facilitate sharing of experience and incorporate individual and collective learning. – Mentoring support (up to 4 hours) will be given to all participants as a follow-up to the course.

“I NEVER KNEW I COULD LEARN SO MUCH IN SUCH A SHORT SPACE OF TIME.” TEACHING TEAM Prof Nitya Rao – My research and practice over the past 30 years has focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment, within broader issues of resource rights, social equity and rural development. My present research interests include gendered changes in land and agrarian relations, migration, livelihoods, food and nutrition security and well-being in a context of growth, equity issues in education policies and understanding processes of gender-egalitarian policy change. I have been teaching key concepts in gender and livelihood analysis at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Dr Laura Camfield – I trained as an anthropologist, but now I work collaboratively using qualitative and quantitative methods and training others in their use, for example, with the DFID-funded Global Girls Research Initiative. My current research focus is on enhancing the quality of cross-national methodologies used to collect qualitative and quantitative data on poverty and vulnerability throughout the life course (funded by an ESRC Comparative Cross-national research grant). At UEA I am one of the post-graduate Research Directors and teach on courses in impact evaluation, social development and ethnography. Prof Cecile Jackson – Two strands of work define my recent research concerns; a line of thinking about epistemologies for interdisciplinary development studies research, and substantively, an interest in the ways in which well-being is not simply an individual attribute – of capabilities and functionings – but a profoundly social relational phenomenon. This builds on my earlier work on gender and poverty, and on my commitment to gender analysis, which is centrally about social relations rather than gender categories, as a lens through which to understand social change. Dr Catherine Locke – I am a sociologist with over 15 years experience in research, consultancy and training in the fields of gender and social development. My recent work has been organised around the themes of reproduction, migration and gender analysis. My current research is focused on the reproductive lives of male and female migrants in Vietnam and is funded by the ESRC and DFID. I teach research skills, social development, gender analysis for social policy and population and population and development issues at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels, as well as supervising research students. I am a Director for Moving the Goalposts – a small charity that promotes gender empowerment through football for girls and young women in Kilifi Kenya.



CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT

4–11 JULY 2016 | 20 places

TARGET AUDIENCE

THE COURSE FEE

Employees of government organisations, NGOs, international agencies and private organisations. The course is aimed especially at professionals who do not have an existing specialism in the field but who may have new responsibility or interest in the integration of climate change management into development planning, projects and policy. Recent participants have included employees of national ministries of environment, agriculture, planning and finance from countries worldwide, and staff of organisations such as Oxfam, Red Cross, ICIMOD, DfID, JICA, BMZ, ADB, UNDP, UNEP, FAO and IFC.

£2,000 – this includes all tuition, Bed and Breakfast accommodation, daily lunches and refreshments.

COURSE DIRECTOR Course Director: Dr Heike Schroeder, Senior Lecturer in the School of International Development UEA, draws together expertise from some of the world’s leading researchers on climate change.


“I FEEL EMPOWERED AND SKILLED UP. STATE-OF-THE-ART KNOWLEDGE IS PRESENTED TO US WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO QUESTION THE STATUS QUO.” SHORT COURSE STUDENT

20


CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT

CLIMATE CHANGE HAS PROFOUND IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. THE PURPOSE OF THIS SHORT COURSE IS TO EQUIP NON-SPECIALISTS WITH A BROAD UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT CLIMATE CHANGE MAY MEAN FOR LOW-INCOME POPULATIONS. It will examine the scope and prospects for adapting to change and contributing to emissions reduction in the context of development issues and poverty reduction. The course is designed to equip participants with a deeper awareness of the ideas, opportunities and trade-offs represented by adaptation and mitigation; an awareness that is increasingly needed if effective action on climate change is to be achieved. It does not set out to provide a practical ‘toolkit’ guide for policy and practice but participants leave the course having been exposed to state-ofthe-art knowledge to help develop their skills in this field.

COURSE CONTENT Participants will gain grounding in a broad range of climate change issues from the underlying science of climate change, through its implications for development pathways to the international political agenda of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Key emphasis is placed on the context of poverty reduction – exploring what climate change implies in terms of vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation in developing countries and how to go about building resilience at all scales.

“EXCEPTIONALLY WELL ORGANISED AND DELIVERED.” SHORT COURSE STUDENT

Expert inputs will include: – Climate science – Impacts and vulnerability in the context of development – Adaptation and resilience: examples and lessons from different sectors – International policy and implementation mechanisms – Forest governance and REDD+ – Urban responses to climate change – Low carbon development pathways The course is structured to encourage participants to share their ideas through interactive and small-group work. Through discussion during the course, participants will consolidate the knowledge and insight they have gained in areas that have practical relevance to their work.

TEACHING TEAM Dr Heike Schroeder is the Course Director for this short course, Senior Lecturer in the School of International Development, UEA, and a Researcher with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. She has a background in political science, climate change governance, the UNFCCC negotiations, cities and climate change and REDD+. Regular contributors include: Prof Corinne Le Quéré, Prof Dabo Guan, Prof Bruce Lankford, Prof Tim O’Riordan, Prof Declan Conway, Prof Tim Osborn, Dr Nick Brooks, Dr Roger Few, Dr Marisa Goulden and Dr Gareth Edwards.

?? || INTERNATIONAL 22 INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT SHORT SHORT COURSES COURSES 2016 2016


APPLYING FOR A SHORT COURSE TO APPLY FOR A SHORT COURSE PLEASE FILL IN OUR ONLINE BOOKING FORM: www.uea.ac.uk/international-development/professional-training If you have any questions please contact a member of the Training Office team. We look forward to hearing from you.

TALK TO US | EMAIL [email protected] | TEL +44 (0)1603 592340

BESPOKE TRAINING OFF-THE-PEG SHORT COURSES

VISITING PROFESSIONALS

We may be able to run one of our existing short courses at a different time to suit your organisation.

We are able to provide individuals and small groups with customised programmes and study tours tailored to individual professional needs. Programmes can be arranged in most development related subjects. We can provide tailor-made study sessions, guided reading and seminar style discussions with members of the School of International Development teaching faculty and research team plus wider access to staff throughout the university. Training and skills development can be provided at almost any time of the year. Typically most programmes run for 2 -4 weeks but can be as little as 2 -3 days.

TAILORED COURSES If one of our courses looks right for you but needs to be tailored to suit your specific requirements, we can discuss your training objectives with you in more detail and how best we can tailor the advertised course to meet them.

BESPOKE SHORT COURSES We can develop a course for you from scratch. We enjoy problem-solving, so if you have a training requirement that you are finding particularly difficult to source please contact us. We are able to offer topics from across all UEA’s areas of expertise – this approach isn’t limited to international development topics.

IN-HOUSE TRAINING We believe that hosting our courses at UEA provides an ideal learning environment, with participants being able to retreat and focus on their learning during their stay with us and make use of our superb teaching facilities. However, we acknowledge that this isn’t always possible, so we are happy to deliver training in-house at your organisation. We can cover any of the options above in a location remote to UEA. We are flexible as to the delivery of training whether it be in a block or recurrent format or anything in between. If you need help with one part of your in-house training we are happy to provide a modular approach. We are also able to provide teaching and learning resources including web based media, e-learning and blended solutions.

MENTORING AND COACHING We are able to offer mentoring and coaching as an add-on to our courses, after the training or in a standalone format. 24 | INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SHORT COURSES 2016

Visitors are provided with their own workstation with internet enabled PC and easy access to a printer within the School of International Development plus access to the library. Modern self-catering or Bed and Breakfast campus accommodation is provided within easy reach of our offices. Most teaching is held within the School of International Development.

A FLEXIBLE APPROACH The options above are only the start. We are happy to consider any ideas in order to deliver the highest quality of training to your organisation - the only limit is your imagination. Bespoke doesn’t need to mean expensive - let us know your budget and we will provide the best value for money.

TALK TO US Start the discussion with us by phone or email. We are happy to send over sample curricula or case studies to help you build a business case to train with us. With over 30 years’ experience of delivering training to international development professionals, we will ensure that the conversation is a fruitful one.


WE HAVE ONE SCHOLARSHIP FOR EACH OF OUR SHORT COURSES We are delighted to be able to offer one full scholarship (course fees, travel and living expenses whilst on the course) for each of our short courses this year.* Scholarships will be awarded to an applicant from a developing country, and the decision will be based on their supporting statement and their work experience.

TO APPLY FOR A SCHOLARSHIP PLEASE USE THE ONLINE BOOKING FORM: www.uea.ac.uk/international-development/professional-training *Scholarships are assigned based on a highly competitive process, so we advise you to secure funding from your organisation if possible, in order to have the best chance of obtaining a place on the course.

26

NORWICH Voted one of Britain’s top 10 best cities, located between picturesque coastal landscapes and a wealth of countryside, Norwich is a surprisingly bustling city. Always a good place for a night out, the city offers a variety of good-value restaurants, stylish cafe bars, theatres, nightclubs and festivals.

There’s also a great deal of history within Norwich, and the city boasts over 30 medieval churches, two cathedrals, theatres, art galleries, museums, and a Norman castle.

Recently voted as one of the top 10 cities for shopping in the UK, Norwich is home to two large shopping centres – Chapelfield and Castle Mall – and hosts a wide choice of major department stores. Those looking for a more independent shopping experience can visit The Norwich Lanes – recently voted high street of the year – a thriving cross-section of eclectic boutiques and unique shops and cafés, including the privately-owned department store, Jarrold.

Norwich is approximately 115 miles/185km from London and there are regular and reliable train and coach services to and from the capital. International flights arrive several times daily at Norwich’s small and convenient airport via the hub at Amsterdam Schipol.

GETTING HERE

International Development UEA reserves the right to change any aspect of its training programme without notice.

TRAINING AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT OFFICE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT UEA UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA NORWICH RESEARCH PARK NORWICH NR4 7TJ T +44 (0) 1603 592340 W www.uea.ac.uk/international-development/professional-training