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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development

International Public Health Distributed and Online Learning Initiative with Scholarship Options

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Description
Description
This initiative will equip civil servants in developing countries to support national and global public health policies, notably dealing with pandemics affecting the sustainable development of Africa and the tropical belt. The goal is to train 25 specialists during the first academic cycle, and 50 (including full scholarship government staff) in the second (2016-2017) academic cycle. At the end of the 2016, it shall be documented how the programme participants are then engaged in public initiative relevant to the goals set forth in "The Future We Want".
Implementation of the Project/Activity

EUCLID will implement the initiative through its own established mechanism to develop higher education programmes that are deliverable in a distributed environment and compliant with the academic standards in effect through the supervising Minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (MoHERST, Gambia). Implementation shall therefore involve the ELEMENTS online learning platform which shall be accessible with low-bandwidth in developing countries.

The online learning programme shall focus on how sustainable development is affected by public health issues with a focus on those issues affecting developing countries, notably in Africa but also in small island States (Saint Vincent, Vanuatu, Timor-Leste).

Each module shall have standalone abilities to result in the issuance of specialized certificates as intermediate milestones to a full master's degree in international public health which is the ideal but optional outcome for participants.

Capacity

EUCLID will be working closely with its institutional partners and stakeholders, notably in The Gambia as headquarters State (National UNESCO Commission, to ensure that arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer are in place. Efforts shall be integrated to translate the programme in the French language to ensure transfer to francophone institutions and stakeholders.

Governed

The program will be coordinated from EUCLID's new headquarters offices in Banjul (The Gambia, West Africa) and through EUCLID's international faculty network. The Euclid Consortium will coordinate French speaking initiatives with the University of Bangui, whose rector is a medical doctor specializing in tropical diseases. EUCLID's liaison office in the United States will coordinate with the Permanent Missions of the EUCLID Participating States to the United Nations, notably Gambia (headquarters State) and Burundi (Institutional High Steward).

Partners
- EUCLID (Euclid University), an intergovernmental organization (United Nations Treaty Series 49006-49007)

- The University of Bangui, a public university

- ECOWAS, an intergovernmental organization, as stakeholder and beneficiary under a partnership MOU

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File programme documentation including syllabi and international faculty team
Progress Report on First Academic cycle
Progress Report on completion of first group of trained specialists with Rio+ alignment report
Intergovernmental notification on formal activation of full scholarships for officials of EUCLID Member States and ECOWAS staff
Financing (in USD)
10000
Staff / Technical expertise
EUCLID faculty resources
In-kind contribution
Textbooks and multimedia resources
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Action Network
Rio+20
This initiative does not yet fulfil the SMART criteria.
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Timeline
05 January 2016 (date of completion)
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Geographical coverage
Banjul, Gambia (The)
Countries
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Contact Information

Rodrigo Aguero, Director of Admissions and Operations

aguero@euclid.int