National Training Curriculum Year 2

LEAD-China National Training For Cohort 5
December1-14, 1997

 

 [Objectives][Requirements][Assessment][Timetable]


Objectives

By this stage, the associates have earned to analyze problems and identify possible solutions. The year-two training aims to develop skills to select, evaluate, and implement options in order to bring about change. To that end, this national session is designed to

  1. Help the associates understand leadership it not a place but a process, whereby institutional planning and management can be redesigned to make economy and ecology both prosper.
  2. Introduce concepts, theories, methods and tools of planning, policy and decision making, and related implementation; the focus is on the analysis of opportunities vs constrains and benefit vs risk in the existing social, institutional and legal mechanisms for making change.
  3. Illustrate the intricate and interactive processes in decision making, which may deal with inter-discipline, inter-sectoral, different level, multy-country, and various stakeholders' interests.
  4. Establish strategically new thinking and paradigms toward a equity world both in time and in space.
  5. Build up the associates' capacity in decision making, problem solving and conflict negating for environment/development issues.

[Objectives][Requirements][Assessment][Timetable]


Requirements

Associates are required to attend every training class, complete reading and writing assignments, participate in group and panel discussions. In addition, to better digest and practice the learning, team work on specific issues is encouraged.

 [Objectives][Requirements][Assessment][Timetable]


Assessment 

Assessment is based on the attendance , fulfillment of reading and writing assignments, and quality of the presentations. It's stipulated by LEAD Secretariat that those who miss six or more sessions (more than 20% of the total training) are not allowed to attend next international session or graduate as originally scheduled except for extra special cases to be approved by the program office.

[Objectives][Requirements][Assessment][Timetable]


Timetable

Date&Time Presenter/Topic & Main Points
I. Opening
Dec. 1, Mon.

9:00-12:00 am

Welcome address                                       by Li Lailai and Ye Weizuo

Sustainable Development & Agenda 21   by Liu Peizhe (past director of ACCA 21)

II. Framework of Planning
Dec. 1, Mon.

1:30-5:00 pm

Planning and SPC                                       by Yang Weimin from SPC

-definition of national planing and SPC's part
-planning role in the context of political, institutional and legal system
-planning structure, mechanism and process
-function change in planning and SPC from planning to market economy
-coordination of interest among different levels and various sectors

Dec. 2, Tu

9:00-12:00 am

Environmental Legislation Construction

by Zhang Hongjun from Environmental & Resources Protection Committee of NPC

-Brief History of Environmental Regulation System
-Environmental Legal Framework
-Pollution Control Laws
-Major Regulatory Tools
-Problems in the Environmental Law Enforcemen
-Environmental Legislative Plan(1993~1998)
-Legislative Reform
-EPC and NPC
-Environmental Policy Directions
-New Enforcement Approaches

1:30-5:00 pm Influence of International assistance         by Li Li from World Bank

-function of World Bank & its relation to China
-World Bank's policies for developing countries
-World Bank's new policies in favor of SD
-procedures in application for foreign aid
-example of World Bank's projects

III. Planning Strategy-situation Assessment
Dec. 3 , We

9:00-12:00 am

Economic Impact Assessment                by Bai Nansheng

-investment project assessment
-indicators for finance/economy assessment
-risk analysis
-decision making method

1:30-5:00 pm ECIA discussion
7:00-9:00 pm Social Impact Assessment                            by Li Lailai

-definition of social impact
-rationality of SIA
-strategy of SIA

Dec. 4, Th

9:00-12:00 am

Environmental Legislation                           by Zhang Kunmin from NEPA

-concept and formulation process of legislation
-overview of China's legislation on EP
-history of environmental legislation in industrial countries
-protocols and agreement for EP
-enforcement and compliance of env-legislation
-introduction to international env-conventions
1:30-5:00 pm Environmental Impact Assessment            by Ye Wh (Peking University)

-definition and concepts
-objectives and criteria
-content, procedure and method
-current situation and problems
-essence, task and direction

Dec. 5, Fr.

9:00-12:00 am

Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Management System
                                                                       by lu yonglong

-definitions and key aspects of LCA methodology
-technical framework for a case study - vehicle emissions
-applications and limitations of the LCA procedure
-future developments in LCA
-major components of EMS and their functions
-ISO14000: environmental management responsibility sharing and accreditation process
-Interactive quiz: participating in environmental management

1:30-5:30 pm Ecological Impact Assessment                     by Zhang Renwu

-strategy toward a ecological sustainable development
-indicators of sustainable agriculture

7:00-9:00 pm Preparation for Pakistan Regional Session
Dec. 6, Sa Field trip to a model ecological agriculture (in Da Xing County)
Dec. 8, Mon.

9:00-12:00 am

Geographical Information System              by Chen Guangwei

-information as a major reference & input for plannin

1:30-5:00 pm

-information management
-GIS case analysis
-introduction to GPS

Dec. 9, Tu

9:00-!2:00 am

Assessment Synthesis and Synergism

Policy-making Theory                           by Wang Qiwen from Guanghua Mgt. Inst.

-introduction to probability law
-basic principle in policy-making's program and stages
-uncertainty and decision's skills
-optimum scenarios among various
-development of decision maker's capacity plans

1:30-5:30 pm Decision Support Systems (DSS)                by Lu Yonglong

-system: characteristics and functions
-DSS: definition and composition
-International progress in DSS applications
-presentation with a case study - application of DSS theory
-methodology in urban sustainable development

7:00-9:00 pm Embassy Topic: Introduction to CIDA and Canada's policies for SD

                                                                by Doug Henderson from Canadian

IV. PLANNING PROCESS AND IMPLEMENTATION
Dec. 10, Wen

9:00-12:00 am

Implementation of Planning through Negotiation-Introduction to COP
                                                             by Zhou Shuguang
from CMA

-introduction to FCCC and COP
-China's principles for FCCC
-briefing on previous COPs
-defend national interests through negotiation

1:30-5:00 pm Environmental Planning (EP)                      by Ye Wenhu from Peking University

-basic concept and relation to other planning
-different types and related underlining theories
-principles and technical methods
-current difficulties
-advance and prospect

Dec. 11, Th.

9:00-12:00 am

Summery on Planing and Decision Making       by Bai Nansheng
V. NEW THINKING AND NEW PARADIGM
Dec. 11, Th

1:30-5:30 pm

NGO's Advance                                            by Liang Congji
7:00-9:00 pm Iintroduction to UNDP and UNV (United Nations Volunteers)

                                                                by Susan Jolly from UNDP

Dec. 12, Fr

9:00-12:00 am

Tech/Sci & SD                                       by Sun Honglie from CAS
1:30-5:30 pm SD's Culture and Ethics                        by Ye Wenhu
7:00-9:00 pm Strategy for China's water problems

                                         by Liu Changming from TheGeographic Institute of CAS

VI. DISCUSSIONS
Dec. 13, Sa Preparation for Pakistan Regional Session
 
 

 

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