Facilitated e-Learning Course: Urban Upgrading for Inclusion, Sustainability and Resilience in a time of Global Pandemics
by The World Bank Group's Open Learning Campus in partnership with the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Economy and Finance
Details: Jul 05, 2021 12:00 AM - Sep 03, 2021 12:00 AM EDT | Virtual
Unprecedented circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic have presented huge challenges to a third of the global urban population living in slums around the world. This course aims at supporting policymakers and urban practitioners to better respond to the challenge of slums, especially in a time of global pandemics. The course focuses on the conceptual and operational aspects of designing, implementing, and sustaining a slum upgrading intervention while underscoring the main policy and programmatic approaches at the city level for scaling up upgrading and better planning for future growth. Specifically, at the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Understand urban slums, their underlying social, economic, and spatial characteristic, how they emerge and consolidate, and their impacts on local communities and the city as a whole;
- Analyze the evolution of policy approaches to addressing urban slums under different contexts, what worked, what did not work, and why; and
- Review and apply key operational principles and instruments for designing an upgrading intervention, including planning, finance, infrastructure, land tenure, housing, social inclusion, and sustainability.
Learn more and enroll here: https://olc.worldbank.org/content/urban-upgrading-inclusion-sustainability-and-resilience-time-global-pandemics-0?deliveryName=DM107852
Photo of Morro do Cantagalo, Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro by william f. santos from Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/8Q0m7yzeo9Y