Capacity Building & Organizational Development
…to facilitate personal and institutional development, priority- setting, informed decision-making, and framework conditions conducive to productive collaboration. Capacity building is designed to ensure sustained benefits through needs assess- ment, action learning techniques and a focus on performance outcomes.

Selected mandates/clients:

• Training course for Chinese investment promotion agencies "Can we make a CDM deal?", Investment Promotion Agency, Ministry of Commerce, China / UN Conference on Trade and Development
• International Peer Review, Indian National Strategy Study for Clean Development Mechanism, The World Bank
• International Training Advisor, UNDP "Building Capacity for the Clean Development Mechanism in China", China Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation
• Technical Advisory Group, peer review of the China CDM Study, The World Bank
• Public training course on corporate greenhouse gas inventory and climate mitigation project validation/ certification, Det Norske Veritas Certification, Inc., USA
• Simulation of Clean Development Mechanism deal-making to provide negotiation skills training, The World Bank (subcontracted through CSEND, Geneva) synopsis
• Training materials on "Climate Change and Sustainable Development Leadership", UN University Leadership Academy, Jordan (subcontracted through Rare, Geneva)