South African Development Corporation The Institute for Public-Private Partnerships, Inc.

SADC - IP3 Course Catalog

The SADC Banking Association, under financial support from The Banking Association South Africa and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), is pleased to offer, in cooperation with the Institute for Public-Private Partnerships (IP3), a series of intensive online professional training programmes on Public-Private Partnerships (PPP's).

The overall goal of these programmes is to provide organisations and institutions that are currently designing or implementing public-private partnership programmes at the national, state, or municipal/local levels with a practical, hands-on, and results-oriented capacity building experience that will further their PPP planning, implementation, and management objectives. The current catalog offerings consist of two courses:

Participating in an Online
Training Programme

Training "online" may be an unfamiliar (and intimidating!) experience for many people. It doesn't have to be that way- as long as you know how to use basic Internet functions. Virtually the entire course is "point and click" with your mouse. After the first week of training, you will be a "pro" in maneuvering through the course site.

A key advantage to "online training" is that course material is available "24/7" so you can access material and complete your assignments on your schedule and not someone else's. Additionally, the discussion board threads are an excellent communication tool- the power of the written word is a very effective communication medium.

To learn more about the online learning environment, please view this Flash demo (click on "View the Online Demo").

PPP Skills and Competency Development, an online programme with six-modules, with each module being conducted over a one-week period; and

PPP Project Officer's Management Skills Development Training, an online programme with three modules, with each module being conducted over a one week period

Participants in these courses will be responsible for completing weekly assignments, interacting via discussion boards and emails with fellow participants and course facilitators, and completing an action plan. The programmes will be conducted entirely over the Internet- access can be made from any computer (at any time) with an Internet connection.

For complete information on each course, including objectives, module content, other relevant information, click on the course name to be taken to the full brochure.

Once an application for either course has been completed, SADC member countries will be invited to complete an application for scholarship funds. For additional information on scholarship funds available for SADC member countries, please click here

To register for either course, click here.

For additional information on sponsoring organizations, please click on the following links:

SADC Banking Association

The Banking Association, South Africa

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

Institute for Public-Private Partnerships