TDLC supports global carbon finance dialogue
Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) has been providing logistical support for Carbon Finance Fund Participant Meetings organized by the World Bank’s Carbon Finance Unit (ENVCF) since June 2007. A number of funds (the Prototype Carbon Fund, the Community Development Carbon Fund, and the BioCarbon Fund) hold regular meetings with their stakeholders linking to their Japanese stakeholders by videoconference at the TDLC. In 2012, the BioCarbon Fund and the Community Development Carbon Fund will hold their annual meetings in June in Tokyo at our center, as they did in June 2007.
Japan supports innovative training program for Vietnamese nurses
An innovative training-of- trainers (TOT) program to support nurse education in Vietnam has been developed by Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) in collaboration with AHP Network, and Vietnam Development Information Center (VDIC).
The program aims to improve the nurse education and training system; thus, to enhance the capacity of the overall healthcare workforce in Vietnam. While nurse education in medical universities and colleges has provided training on fundamental knowledge and skills in key clinical specializations; yet, there are subjects merely addressed as partial topics of a subject, rather than complete separate subjects. This has caused a lack of specific and practical knowledge and skills as required among nursing teachers in delivering lessons to students and among nurses in providing daily treatment to patients. The fields that were identified to be covered under this training course have included; Mental Health, Elderly Care and Home-based Nursing.
The TDLC plans to deliver the second delivery of Introduction to Psychiatric and Mental Nursing TOT in late summer, as well as to develop and deliver an Elderly Care TOT course in Fall 2012.
e-Learning courses managed by the World Bank Institute
The World Bank Institute launched an “e-Institute” in July 2011 which is designed to support self-motivated learners to get up to speed on the latest development trends, enhance their …
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Spotlight on Disaster Risk Management
Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) and the World Bank’s East Asia & Pacific (EAP) Regional Unit jointly organized two major events on Disaster Risk Management (DRM) connecting media, policy makers, practitioners, and other partners by video conferencing system. The events, which utilized the outreach facilities of the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN), marked the occasion of the visit to Japan by Pamela Cox, new Vice President for East Asia and Pacific region of the World Bank.
A recording of the seminar as well as the presentation materials are available on the our Program page.
Global Water Forum
The Global Water Forum, established in 2010 as an initiative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), works with the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN), to provide expertise in capacity building and knowledge transfer in water economics and governance, and to develop an understanding of the value of water and across different uses.
As part of this broader collaboration Tokyo Development Learning Center, The World Bank (TDLC) has provided its connectivity services for a series of video lectures to leading academics in the water sector at the Australian National University (ANU), which connected to water practitioners in Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, and India in November 2011.
Some of the lectures are now available online: Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) lecture series
Integrated Urban Planning: Learning from Tokyo and Yokohama
Tokyo Development Learning Center, the World Bank (TDLC) co-chaired a session at the 23rd Kuala Lumpur Regional Training Centre Program (KLRTC XXIII) on Integrated Urban Planning which was hosted by Kuala Lumpur City Hall and organized by United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), CITYNET and others, from December 13-15, 2011.
Japan’s Crown Prince visits TDLC for International Workshop on Water and History
Over 80 people gathered at The International Workshop on Water and History held at the Tokyo Development Learning Center in the presence of H.R.H. Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan on December 13th, 2011. The two day workshop focused on lessons learnt throughout history in the area of water management and …
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GDLN Asia Pacific Regional Meeting
Affiliates from the South Asia and East Asia and Pacific GDLN regions will meet from December 5 -9, 2011 in New Delhi, India for the next GDLN Asia Pacific Regional Meeting. The meeting will be hosted by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Distance Learning Center.
Nine Asian countries joined Green Growth seminars
Two Green Growth seminars were successfully organized by Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) with Korea Development Institute (KDI) School and Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Center (AFDC) in collaboration with the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) - connecting with Korea, China, Japan and other countries via video conference.
Expert speakers from Japan, China and Korea updated and shared knowledge about each country’s Green Growth policy formation and its implementation process to date. They also took part in a regional dialogue to further disseminate the concept of Green Growth and to analysis and discuss relevant issues within Asia and beyond.