Strengthening Local Governance

UNITAR’s Learning Platform on Human Mobility

UNITAR’s Learning Platform on Human Mobility provides capacity development through a blended learning approach on all aspects of human mobility, designed specifically for local and regional authorities.

In November 2015, in Quito, a course on Migration and Post 2015 [2] will take place on the sidelines of the Second Mayoral Forum on Mobility, Migration and Development [3] for municipal administrators.  This Course is funded by the World Bank KNOMAD [4] project.

Based on prior consultations (more information [5]), the Learning Platform’s areas for course-work are currently:

• Social cohesion & adapting to change (read more [6])
• Fostering economic development & entrepreneurship (read more [7])
• Education & youth development
• Urbanisation & the environment
• Access to public services including health
• Human security (read more [8]) 

The course work draws from practical experience and an existing body of knowledge developed by partners including: IOM and EC-UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative [9] (JMDI) and the World Bank’s Knowledge Partnership on Migration KNOMAD (LINK). Other important players within and outside of the UN system include UNDP [10]; the ACP Observatory on Migration [11]; UNICEF [12]; UNU Barcelona [13]; the European Commission [14]; the University of Antwerp (CeMIS) [15]; the City University of New York (CUNY) [16]; Erasmus University Rotterdam [17]; the South African Migration Project (SAMP) [18]; the University of Sussex (“Migrating out of Poverty” Consortium [19]); Payoke [20]; Storytegic [21]; OSCE [22]; UNODC [23]; and the Cities of Atlanta, Antwerp, Athens, Barcelona, Dakar, Durban, Jeju (more information [24]), New York (Blueprints for Immigrant Integration [25]), Plock (more information [26]), Quito, and Seoul. 

 

The Learning Platform borrows from existing UNITAR methodologies drawing from the well-established global network of CIFAL Training [27] Centres [27].