The PPPUE/Yale Collaborative Programme, a partnership between Public-Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment (PPPUE) and Yale University's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies is pioneering new ways for local government, the private sector and civil society to join forces to address problems facing the poor in cities on every continent. The Collaborative Learning Course is part of PPPUE's effort to establish a Global Learning Network to foster exchange of best practices and lessons learned on the development of public-private partnerships.

The course links students, researchers and those working in public policy, with the main goal of helping developing countries build local capacity and expertise on ways that public-private partnerships can address urban environmental problems. The course is not a conventional "distance learning" course, where students from remote places will receive materials and submit their papers to one University or a professor, but it is a system where registered universities around the world will have their own classes in their respective countries in parallel with reference to documents and topics distributed by Yale University in the United States.

During the session, students and lecturers will have opportunities to discuss, debate and exchange ideas, cases and their PPP experience among each other and come up with common concerns and local approaches that can be shared across all the students. In 2001, 20 universities across all regions in the world with over 170 students participated in the course. The Collaborative Learning Course 2002 has started in January 2002.

Please read the "Evaluation of the Global Learning Network's Distance Learning Programme" for further information

A special webspace is available for members of the Collabortive Learning Course 2002, providing a virtual learning space and collaboration centre.

For further information about the Distance Learning Course, please contact: pppue@undp.org

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