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UN launches e-learning initiative in over 160 countries
A new UN e-learning initiative will offer developing countries opportunities to draw upon a rich array of training and capacity-building resources.
Sixteen UN agencies, meeting at a forum organised by UN Environment Programme (UNEP) during the 14th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and Training in Berlin, have agreed to establish UNeLearn - a UN-wide network on technology supported learning to share information and expertise, and to collaborate on the sustained deployment of e-learning.
The UNeLearn network will provide targeted training and outreach to help UN country teams implement common programmes of work in over 160 developing countries.
The initiative, inspired by the UN “Delivering as One” concept, aims to maximise coherence and effectiveness among UN projects at the country-level as part of efforts to implement the Millennium Development Goals.
UNEP Executive Director, Achim Steiner, welcomed the initiative. “Technology supported learning offers tremendous potential to address the capacity development needs of a wide range of beneficiaries in developing countries. The work of the UN country teams will ultimately be strengthened through this collaboration and member states will be better served,” he said.
As a first step towards the implementation of the project, a comprehensive stock-taking exercise is planned to commence, early in 2009, to identify and integrate quality-assured training resources from across the UN system. The UN Staff College will host a number of online communities of practice that will bring together capacity development and training expertise in areas, such as agriculture, development, education, environment, food security, health and human rights.
By agreeing to pool and share their collective training resources and shift towards technology supported learning, the initiative will help UN agencies eliminate duplicative activities, reduce costs, and reach a wider client base.
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