Training

Max Lock Centre organises short training courses and programmes using our related knowledge transfer outputs such as manuals, films and good-practice guides. These courses are designed to address the information needs of professionals and communities to improve their understanding of key issues and build capacity for partnerships in regional and urban development.

Short training sessions and courses

Improving knowledge transfer

The course is aimed at improving communication and exchange of information between public, private and community stakeholders and creates effective partnerships in decision-making for local urban development

Empowering communities

This course for local government officials, community activists and representatives of socially-responsible businesses, looks at tools and techniques for ensuring greater community participation on the local planning and development decision-making process.

Community Asset Management

This programme is aimed at policy-makers, planners and engineers to ensure that essential physical assets for water, sanitation, health and education are kept in good condition throughout their life-cycle and serve their function for their entire designed life. The training covers a wide range of good practice from accounting and record-keeping to increasing livelihood opportunities through the training and employment of the local community. (See Balochistan Provincial Government Study Visit)

Spatial Planning for Sustainable Development

This course sets out a systematic approach to planning sustainable development at the urban and regional scale. It sets out a framework for gathering and analyzing baseline data, generating development scenarios, and considers important aspects of implementation such as the development of appropriate training programme and geo-spatial data infrastructure.

Building local partnerships for poverty reduction

This course Informs policy makers at national and local levels on management approaches to achieving internationally-agreed development aims though collaborative working and multi-stakeholder partnerships between central and local government, civil society and the private sector.

Local economic development for sustainable livelihoods

By using community-focused regeneration approaches, the course provides policy makers with an introduction to pro-poor local economic management and planning. It focuses on poverty reduction through a Sustainable Livelihoods Approach, community involvement and co-operative development. 

Planning sustainable local development

Looks at ways in which sustainable low-income housing can be integrated with new commercial development through a local cross-subsidy approach and multi-stakeholder partnerships in developing world cities. Computer modeling and urban design are used to develop feasible options.

Urban observatories and indicators

Instruments for increasing the capacity of government and civil society are explored to monitor public policy at the national and local levels. How can relevant indicators be devised from internally-agreed development commitments and stated policy aims. How can observatories combine research and networking to achieve optimum results?

Low-cost mapping for Urban Planning

The potential for using readily and cheaply available satellite imagery for producing maps for urban areas and regional planning purposes is explained. It shows how basic computer technology and Information technology skills in developing countries can be optimised to capture and understand rapid urbanisation and regional growth for planning purposes.

Resource Mapping & Appropriate Building Technology

Looks at cost-effective ways to select and use building materials and technologies for health, education and essential community infrastructure for rural and urban communities in developing countries.

Disaster Risk Reduction and Reconstruction

This course is intended to aid governments officials at all levels to prepare local plans to audit the risk and prepare human settlements to withstand and minimise damage from natural hazards and facilitate a rapid reconstruction in post disaster situations.