LenCD seeks team to develop e-learning course on capacity development

[Brian Lucas]

LenCD seeks a highly qualified team to design, develop, and deliver a tutored e-learning course on capacity development based on the LenCD Learning Package on Capacity Development (http://www.lencd.org/learning).  Complete details on this request for proposals are available from the UNDP procurement web site: http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=9469

In 2011, a partnership between LenCD and Train4Dev supported the development of the CD Learning Package (http://www.lencd.org/learning), an open resource on capacity development which aims at addressing the learning needs of capacity development practitioners and serving as a resource for CD training facilitators. The process to develop the learning package has been a consultative one, involving a working group of LenCD and Train4Dev partners, working under the guidance of the learning package coordinator.

The package’s core concept provides an overview of the main approaches to CD followed by development organizations. It does not intend to present a LenCD approach to CD, nor promote one approach over another, but to serve as a resource that offers users a way to assess what they will find helpful for any given context or specific need. The package ‘how to’ pages provide more specific guidance on how practitioners can approach different parts of the capacity development process.

The CD Learning Package was launched in December 2011 and has been piloted in Cambodia, as well as by UNHABITAT and Train4Dev, and is currently being adopted by GIZ in the context of the Joint Learning Journey. 

Phase II of this initiative will entail the following activities: 1) the development of a tutored e-learning course (distance learning course); 2) the establishment of a scholarship fund to support the participation of Southerner practitioners; 3) translation into Spanish and French of the current CD Learning package and of the tutored e- learning course; 4) evaluation of the piloting of the CD learning package and adaptation of the facilitator’s guide; and 5) Promotion of application of the CD learning package in country/regional learning events or joint learning journeys.

The assigned organization/institution will be expected to undertake the design and development work required to translate the CD Learning Package (http://www.lencd.org/learning ) into an easily accessible and widely applied tutored e-learning course. The assigned organization will also be expected to manage the tutored e-learning course.

Proposals must be submitted to UNDP in strict compliance with the instructions provided no later than 24 August.  Please see http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=9469 for complete details.