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LEAD (acronym for Leadership for Environment and Development，LEAD project in China is called LEAD-China) headquarters is located in the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London . The Imperial College aims at cultivating middle aged and young leaders who are interested in both economic development and environment protection. LEAD conducts "leadership in sustainable development" training course and recruits associates in over 60 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America. It currently has over 1000 fellows and associates.

In order to meet the demands of young people who are interested in sustainable development, LEAD-China office will holds the third "Leadership in Sustainable Development Training Course" on September 8th of 2003. The training will last for 5 days from the 8th to 13th.

The participatory training course will provide discussion and exchange opportunities for the participants through exercise, special topic discussion, and capacity building. The main theme of of this training course will be "Water Resource Management". Well know Chinese water resource experts will be invited to the training course to discuss the institutional arrangement and institutional innovation of Chinese Water Resource Management System with the participants.

After all the requirements are met, LEAD-China will award each associate a diploma signed by Mr. Qu Geping (the chairman of the board of director of LEAD-China).

Deadline of applications: September 5th, 2003

Cost of training:

• RMB 2000 (includes room and board during training).
• RMB 1500 (not includes room and board during training).

Qualification:

Anyone who is interested in sustainable development and has a BA or BS degree or equivalent.

Application Method:

Mail your application to the following address or send e-mail to and the training fee should be sent to the following address at the same time.

Pu Xiaoxia, Echo Jiao
Institute of Environment and Development
7 West Chang'an boulevard
3rd floor of Northern Building
Compound of Beijing Academy of Culture and History
Beijing 100031, P.R.China

Application Form:

English Application Form

Visit this web page to gain more information at http://www.lead.org.cn/

Training Location:

Contact Information:

Echo Jiao, Pu Xiaoxia, Rebecca Zhu
Tel: 86-01-66012437, 66012148, 66012434
Email:
Web Site: http://www.lead.org.cn

1. Objectives

By now, the Associates have been exposed to different perspectives of sustainable development – demography, ecology, economics, energy, environment science and systems approach. This session will continue to facilitate the accomplishment of LEAD learning objectives – vision development and skill building with varieties of exercises going throughout the process. The session will pick “Water, a Common Goods” and “Megacities and Rural Development” as the themes, around which the learning is conducted. It is designed to for Associates:

1. To have a better understanding of sustainable development in disciplinary perspectives, and to transcend the conventional disciplinary boundaries.
2. To build the skills of systems thinking and cross culture as the integrated approaches to complex sustainable development issues.
3. Taking “water, a common goods” as a theme, to understand the water resource management mechanism practiced in China and explore the institutional innovation for sustainable water resource use.
4. Taking “megacities and rural development” as a theme, to assess the impacts of urbanization to rural development, and to identify the logic relationship between them.

2. Session structure & output

The session has five modules as inputs to vision development and skill building:

3. Methodology

The workshop will take the interactive and participatory approach. Working groups is a basic format of participation, complemented by presentation in plenary. Role-play games will be used to further encourage the participation and facilitate the understanding process.

4. Training arrangement