Participatory frameworks and stakeholder strengthening for rural poverty reduction
01/09/2019
In this course, you will develop an understanding of the actors and organizations involved in rural poverty reduction and the ways in which they interact.
Increasing the impact of rural poverty reduction strategies
01/12/2019
This course describes important approaches through which the impact of rural poverty reduction strategies can be increased. These include poverty profiles, poverty maps and targeting.
Reducing rural poverty: policies and approaches
01/12/2019
This course considers the development of approaches to rural development through the 20th and early 21st centuries, and describes the components of a multisectoral strategy and theory of change for poverty reduction. It then explains in detail the key policy areas that will lead to the goals of productive and inclusive rural transformation.
Course 3: Business plan – Detailed description
01/11/2021
This course explores how to convert a business concept into a detailed business plan with the RuralInvest software and interpret the main indicators.
Course 2: Business concept – Feasibility snapshot
01/11/2021
This course explores how to generate a business concept by inserting the data collected in the filed into the RuralInvest software.
Course 1: Participatory data collection and investment planning in the field
10/11/2020
This course explores how to create a business concept, a yearly cost benefit analysis, in the field together with the entrepreneurs.
Intro Course: RuralInvest – An introduction
01/11/2021
This introductory course provides an overview of the RuralInvest methodology and outlines its application within the RuralInvest e-learning series.
Building resilient societies: the UN's joined-up approach
01/02/2022
This course will introduce you to the UN system’s shared understanding of resilience. It will help you reflect on what you can do to build resilience and connect you to resources to support your resilience-building journey.
Social analysis for inclusive agrifood investments – Field experts
01/11/2023
This course aims to assist social analysts/field practitioners in generating primary data, using qualitative methods that can help to draw a detailed picture of the local social context where investments are being planned or implemented.
Social analysis for inclusive agrifood investments - Managers
01/11/2023
This course covers the management aspects of social analysis and aims to sensitize managers to the role and importance of social analysis in the design of agrifood projects and programmes.
Social analysis for inclusive agrifood investments – Introduction
01/11/2023
This introductory course provides an overview of social analysis and describes its importance in understanding the root causes of poverty, vulnerability and the risks of social exclusion in the context of global efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Social analysis for inclusive agrifood investments – Practitioners
01/11/2023
This course provides guidance to practitioners on how to conduct social analysis to enhance the inclusiveness of agrifood investments.
Theory-based impact evaluation for rural poverty reduction
01/06/2020
This course considers the importance of evaluation of multisectoral strategies for poverty reduction, and describes the six principles of which theory based impact evaluations should be based in order to identify and test the causal mechanism through which these strategies leads to certain outcomes.
Understanding rural poverty
01/01/2019
This course is the first in the Rural Poverty Reduction series, and provides an overview of rural poverty, and why it is so important to overcome it in rural contexts.