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Explore FAO’s free, self-paced e-Learning courses, tailored for professionals working to implement the SDGs on the ground and enhance their ability to champion the 2030 Agenda in their locality.
Monitoring and evaluation of child labour in agriculture
01/11/2019
This course demonstrates how strong monitoring systems of agricultural programmes can incorporate child labour indicators, suggesting useful strategies. It also provides methodologies to consider when evaluating and reporting on evidence that suggests child labour may have been impacted by an agricultural initiative.
Communicating effectively to end child labour in agriculture
01/11/2019
This course illustrates how to identify capacity development needs on child labour for agricultural stakeholders. It provides guidance on how to design tailored capacity development activities on child labour in agriculture for a target group. It also explains how to communicate effectively in order to raise awareness on the issue of child labour in agriculture among various types of audiences.
SDG Indicator 14.4.1 - Fish stocks sustainability
01/11/2019
This course focuses on SDG Indicator 14.4.1 - Fish stocks sustainability: “Proportion of fish stocks within biologically sustainable levels”. It introduces basic fisheries concepts and definitions, illustrates some technical aspects of classical and data-limited stock assessment and provides detailed guidance on process and tools for the analysis and reporting of the Indicator.
Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) - An indigenous peoples’ right and a good practice for local communities
01/10/2019
This course focuses on how to practically operationalize the indigenous peoples’ right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) throughout all stages of the project cycle. The course describes each of the recommended six steps of the process and the related actions to be undertaken.
SDG Indicators 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 - Labour productivity and income of small-scale food producers
01/09/2019
This course has been developed to support countries in computing and monitoring Indicators 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (Labour productivity and income of small-scale food producers), and to facilitate the understanding of the main concepts underpinning the methodology.
Migration and protracted crisis
01/09/2019
The focus of this one-lesson e-learning course is on forced migration due to protracted crisis situations, including both natural or human made disasters, and conflict. Forced migration is a sub category or type of migration. It is distinguished by the presence of coercion or a lack of voluntariness.
SDG Indicator 6.4.1 - Change in water-use efficiency over time
01/08/2019
The course provides guidance on the rationale and the main characteristics of Indicator 6.4.1, and on how to compute the two dimensions constituting the indicator: the hydrologic and the economic component. It also highlights possible challenges related to data availability, and the impact that monitoring results may have on national decision-making and identification of development policies.
Understanding rural poverty
01/06/2019
This course is the first in the Rural Poverty Reduction series, and provides an overview of rural poverty, and why it is so important to overcome it in rural contexts. The course describes the key concepts and definitions of rural poverty and how it can be measured, its drivers and cross-cutting themes. Finally, it considers the connection with gender issues and the way that gender shapes...
SDG Indicator 6.4.2 - Level of water stress
01/02/2019
This course provides tools, methods and processes to support countries in monitoring and reporting on SDG Indicator 6.4.2 "Level of water stress: freshwater withdrawal in percentage of available freshwater resources".
SDG Indicator 5.a.2 - Ensuring women’s legal rights to land ownership and/or control CERTIFIED COURSE
01/02/2019
This course focuses on SDG Indicator 5.a.2 which assesses women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control. The course describes the indicator, explains its rationale and provides countries with step-by-step guidance for conducting the assessment.
Developing a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan for food security and agriculture programmes
01/01/2019
This course has the objective to support countries and regions in planning the information needs for monitoring, pilotage and evaluation during the life of their Food and Nutrition Security and Agriculture programmes. The course, also, offers practical guidance on building an M&E system which is feasible, practical and relevant to the programme’s needs.
Agricultural risk management tools
01/01/2019
Risks in agriculture arise from a variety of sources. There are several risk management options that can be used to either mitigate, transfer or cope with risks in agriculture. Choosing the most appropriate tool depends on various factors such as type of risk, tools availability, and level of responsibility.
Agricultural risk management strategy, policy and mainstreaming
01/01/2019
Responding to risk requires developing strategies which combine different risk management tools as well as policies and programs to address constraints and broader issues that create the context in which risks occur. This course will present the role that major stakeholders in the agrifood system can play to design Agriculture Risk Management strategies...
SDG indicators 15.1.1 and 15.2.1 - Forest area and sustainable forest management
01/12/2018
This course has been developed to guide countries in reporting on Indicators 15.1.1 and 15.2.1. It illustrates the rationale of the indicators, the definitions and methodologies on which monitoring activities are based, and explains the process and the tools available for compiling data related to the two indicators through the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) Programme.
Migration and gender
01/12/2018
This one-lesson course considers the gender dimension of rural migration. As men and women experience migration differently, to reduce the vulnerability and empower both rural women migrants and women who stay behind, it is essential to integrate gender into policies and programmes on migration and rural development.
Climate-smart crop production
01/11/2018
This course looks at the relationship between crop production and climate change. It explores the principles and practices for sustainable and profitable production of annual and perennial crops to meet food, feed, energy, fibre needs and foster economic growth in a variety of contexts and crop systems.
How to conduct a nutrition situation analysis
01/07/2018
This course is part of a series of e-learning modules on Nutrition and Food Systems which aims to develop capacities for designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating nutrition-sensitive food and agriculture policies, strategies, plans and programmes. It will guide you through the steps of a nutrition situation analysis...
SDG Indicators 2.5.1 and 2.5.2 - Plant and Animal Genetic Resources
01/07/2018
This course has been developed to support countries in the analysis and reporting for SDG Indicators 2.5.1 and 2.5.2. These indicators measure the achievement of SDG target 2.5, which focuses on maintaining genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species.
SDG Indicator 2.1.1 - Prevalence of Undernourishment (PoU)
01/05/2018
This course focuses on SDG Indicator 2.1.1, which is one of two indicators that focus on food insecurity. The PoU is an estimate of the proportion of the population facing serious food deprivation, and is derived from official national level information on food supply and consumption, and energy needs.
Migration and Youth in Rural Areas
01/04/2018
Migration is an intrinsic part of rural development. Yet, there are major knowledge gaps regarding its drivers, dynamics and effects on rural areas. This e-learning course allows to understand the linkages between migration and rural development with a particular focus on youth. It also provides policy recommendations on how to maximize the positive impacts of rural migration...