Three-Day Customizable, Sector-Focused Workshop

Delivery mode: Face-to-face or live online, instructor-led training
Duration: Three days
Language: Arabic or English, as required
Target countries: All Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries
Delivery locations: Jordan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and other MENA countries, subject to agreement

Course Overview

This programme helps organizations translate green-economy principles into practical improvements across business sectors. It can be customized for construction, agriculture, fisheries, manufacturing, tourism, transport, logistics, energy, water, waste management, education, healthcare, retail, and other sectors.

Participants examine their sector's environmental footprint, resource costs, risks, market pressures, and opportunities. They then identify realistic measures that can improve efficiency, resilience, compliance, worker participation, and the environmental value of products and services.

Recommended for

The programme is recommended for:

• Private companies, SMEs, cooperatives, and business associations
• Sector ministries, municipalities, and public-service institutions
• Chambers of commerce and industry
• Sector development, value-chain, and livelihood programmes
• Managers responsible for operations, quality, procurement, or sustainability
• TVET institutions and organizations designing sector-specific green-skills programmes

Training Objective

The objective is to enable organizations and sector stakeholders to identify commercially and operationally realistic green-economy practices and convert them into prioritized actions.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be better able to:

• Explain green-economy principles in relation to the selected sector
• Map key resource flows, environmental impacts, and business risks
• Identify sector-specific green employment and skills implications
• Recognize opportunities for efficiency, circularity, and cleaner production
• Review suppliers, procurement, transport, and value-chain practices
• Select practical environmental and business performance indicators
• Prioritize feasible short-, medium-, and long-term improvements
• Prepare a sector or organizational green-economy action plan

Main Training Topics

Day One: Green Economy Principles and Sector Diagnosis

• Green-economy concepts, business value, and sector relevance
• Environmental footprint and resource-flow mapping
• Energy, water, materials, waste, emissions, and pollution risks
• Green employment and changing skills requirements
• Regulatory, client, donor, and supply-chain expectations
• Sector examples and good practices
• Identifying priority problems and opportunities

Day Two: Sector Solutions and Green Work Practices

• Resource efficiency, circularity, and cleaner production options
• Sustainable procurement and supplier engagement
• Greener transport, logistics, facilities, and maintenance
• Worker engagement and green-skills development

Day Three: Prioritization and Implementation Planning

• Cost, feasibility, risk, and impact prioritization
• Selecting indicators and assigning responsibilities
• Preparing a sector or organizational action plan

Training Methodology

The programme uses a participatory, practical, and adult-learning approach. The methodology includes:

• Customized sector presentations
• Resource-flow and environmental-footprint mapping
• Sector case studies
• Group problem solving
• Opportunity prioritization exercises
• Action planning
• Pre- and post-training assessments

The content can be adapted to participants' occupations, literacy levels, target sectors, project activities, country context, and organizational priorities.

Workshop Outputs

Participants will receive:

• Three days of customized sector training
• Sector-specific green-economy materials
• Environmental and resource opportunity map
• Prioritized action plan
• Certificate of participation, subject to agreement

The contracting organization may also receive:

• Attendance and assessment results
• Summary of sector priorities
• Workshop report
• Recommendations for technical assistance or further assessment

Group Size and Fee Information

Recommended group size: 15 to 25 participants.

Fees are provided upon request and depend on delivery location, duration, language, customization, venue, travel, participant numbers, and the number of workshops requested.

Organizational Bookings, Customization and Partnerships

Organizations interested in purchasing or customizing this programme should submit an enquiry outlining their requirements. Organizations seeking to become authorized SRD partners to market and deliver the programme in their country should also provide a brief organizational profile, examples of relevant environmental, green-employment, green-skills, or green-economy training assignments, and selected client references. Suitable applicants will be invited to an introductory meeting to discuss the cooperation model, responsibilities, commercial arrangements, quality standards, and next steps toward signing a partnership agreement.

How to register or enquire

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