Digital Learning Centre

 

Welcome to UN DESA's Digital Learning Centre (DLC), a curated repository of the Department's digital capacity-building portfolio!

The DLC offers self-paced courses and microlearning for anyone interested in acquiring the latest knowledge for implementing the 2030 Agenda.

Our eLearning is available through our Learning Management System platform, and you can start exploring our offering after registering here

Our E-Learning

Self-paced course

The eLearning course seeks to build capacities to spearhead innovations and utilize Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and key frontier technologies in the government in order to drive disaster risk reduction and resilience. Special emphasis is given to public service innovations that serve the needs of countries in special situations, including methods for adapting and scaling them to align them with the national contexts. The reference materials, case studies, and knowledge checks part of the online module aim to explore the mechanisms for access, adoption, uptake, and…

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How are your country’s sustainable development objectives being financed? Are there gaps? Gain confidence in designing and implementing an INFF to help strengthen financing processes and practices in your context. 

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How are your country’s sustainable development objectives being financed? Are there gaps and misalignments that could undermine their achievement?

Learn about how INFFs can help strengthen financing processes and practices in your country. 

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The course covers mapping stakeholders, engagement models and practices, and strategies for ongoing SDGs engagement. One module covers approaches, tools and best practices to "leave no one behind."

Toolkit

This toolkit is made for schools of public administration, national experts, government officials, academics, UN Country Teams, and others. It aims to provide a set of methodologies and tools that can contribute to a change in the environment, culture and mindset of public servants in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the context of the 2030 Agenda.

Toolkit

This training toolkit seeks to build national capacities to spearhead innovations and utilize Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and key frontier technologies in government in order to drive DRR and resilience. Special emphasis is given to public service innovations that serve the needs of countries in special situations, including methods for adapting and scaling them to align them with the national context.

Toolkit

This training toolkit is designed around the often-expressed challenges of strengthening national to local government coordination and institutional effectiveness for the SDGs. Therefore, this toolkit aims to break these barriers for more effective achievement of the SDGs and highlights the role of local government.

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This online course is particularly tailored for public servants in Africa or anyone interested in learning about transformational leadership in Africa. 

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In this course you learn about solving policy problems within a control group and about regulatory sandboxing, i.e. to do the live testing of technologies, services and business in the real market, but at a smaller scale, on a time-limited basis, and with appropriate safeguards.

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This programme is intended for government officials, policy makers, as well as other public sector staff interested in learning more about the economic and social impacts of COVID-19.

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During the outbreak and following socio-economic effects, UN DESA kept an eye on macroeconomic consequences, highlighting global and regional contradictions.

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In light of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, UN DESA detailed the real and potentially devastating effects on countries in special situations. 

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COVID-19 and its economic impact struck the globe along established fault lines of exclusion, inequality, and disadvantage, which revealed deep-set gaps in access to essential services and secure livelihoods among social groups in many countries.

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Science and technology have been essential in both the scientific understanding of Coronavirus, as well as in enabling continued productivity and educational initiatives for those with access, given that many activities were carried out remotely.

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As countries transition from COVID-19, taking cogent and comprehensive actions in line with the 2030 Agenda can place the world on a trajectory that leads to sustainable development.

Toolkit

This training toolkit contains a set of comprehensive training materials aimed at strengthening the capacities of government officials to promote innovation for SDG implementation. ​It is designed for schools of public administration, national experts, government officials, academics, UN Country Teams, and others.

Toolkit

This training toolkit aims to build capacities to promote government innovation for social inclusion of vulnerable groups by introducing approaches, strategies, and experiences at the national level. It also highlights the importance of empowering vulnerable groups and engaging them in policy design, implementation, and monitoring processes, as agents of change.

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The development of digital government can lead the journey to a Smart Nation that leverages technology to improve the lives of citizens and business owners. But what should be the starting point of a digital government?

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This e-learning course aims to equip policymakers and government officials to find the answers in their specific national and local contexts.  It makes a compelling case that ultimately, asset management is a way to align strategic planning with infrastructure and service delivery in the real world.

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Do you want to learn what corruption is, its impacts, how it’s measured and why it’s the ultimate betrayal of public trust, as UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said? Then take this course on Understanding & Assessing Corruption.

Toolkit

This toolkit has been developed to help national experts, government officials, academics, UN Country Teams, and others. The training toolkit approaches integrity and effective anti-corruption in public institutions.

Toolkit

The toolkit is for national experts, government officials, academics, UN Country Teams, and others. The primary objective of the training toolkit is to support UN Member States in developing their governance capacities and institutional arrangements for policy coherence.

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