List of the Training Courses Executed by ESDU’s Institute for Participatory Development (IPD)

2003 - 2011

Topic / Date / Location / Funding / Duration / Participating Countries
1 / Financial Appraisal of Development projects / May
2003 / Lebanon / IFAD / 5 days / Lebanon
2 / Financial Appraisal of Development projects / February 2004 / Lebanon / IFAD / 5 days / Lebanon, Qatar
3 / Training of Trainers on Urban Agriculture and Food Security / February 2005 / Lebanon / IDRC / 4 days / Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia
4 / Coastal Midlands Agricultural Dev. Project, Training and Capacity Building Support Initiative / Mar to Oct 2005 / Syria / IFAD / 3 times 9 days each / Syria
5 / Iraq Partnership for Revitalizing Agricultural HigherEducation and Development (AHEAD) / June
2005 / Lebanon / USAID / 8 days / Iraq
6 / Regional Training and Information Sharing on Urban Agriculture and Food Security / September 2005 / Lebanon, Syria, Jordan / IDRC / 3 weeks / Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
7 / Cities Farming for the Future / December 2006 / Lebanon / RUAF / 4 days / Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
8 / Introducing and Exploring the Applicability of Outcome Mapping in the MENA region / May 2007 / Lebanon / IDRC / 4 days / Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Yemen
9 / Multi-Stakeholder Action Planning and Policy Design / September 2007 / Jordan / RUAF / 10 days / Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Yemen
10 / Communication for Development for Practitioners / September 2007 / Jordan / FAO / 5 days / Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine Syria, Yemen
11 / Challenges on Urban Agriculture in the MENA region / September 2007 / Jordan / IDRC / 3 days / Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine Syria, Tunisia Yemen
12 / First Outcome Mapping Users in the MENA region workshop / April 2008 / Egypt / IDRC / 3 days / Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Yemen
13 / Communication Practices for Effective Research and Extension Systems / November 2008 / Lebanon / FAO / 5 days / Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, Yemen
14 / Cities Farming for the Future: Lessons Learned / December 2008 / Tunisia / RUAF / 5 days / Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Yemen
15 / From Seed to Table: Value chain analysis for Urban Agriculture produce / March 2009 / Lebanon / RUAF / 8 days / Jordan, Yemen
16 / Building capacities of MENA Evaluators / April 2009 / Egypt / IDRC / 2 days + 4 days / Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen, Sudan
17 / Second Global “From Seed to Table” training / May
2009 / Lebanon / RUAF / 1 week / China, Ghana, Lebanon, India, Netherlands, Senegal, Peru, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe
18 / Urban and Peri-Urban Field Schools / July 2009 / Yemen / RUAF / 8 days / Jordan, Yemen
19 / Mainstreaming Evaluation Theory and Practice in the MENA region / June 2011 / Lebanon / IDRC / 3 days / Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Syria, UAE