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Training of civil servants on SD in Croatia
Marina Gršković, Senior AdvisorDirectorate for International Relations and Sustainable Development
Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and ConstructionCroatia
Rogaška Slatina, 10 November 2011
Importance of ESD
• Strategy for Sustainable Development of the Republic of Croatia– umbrella document for sustainable development,
adopted on 20 February 2009– long-term orientation of the Republic of Croatia towards
sustainable development, recognising ESD as a prerequisite for achieving SD in the country
• Action Plan on Education for sustainable development– Adopted on 8 April 2011 – the first AP for NSDS to be
developed– Implementation measures for UNECE ESD Strategy for Croatia– Designed according to the SD principles, in consultation
with all stakeholders, through workshops
Reason
• Why train civil servants on SD?
Increasing ESD competencies of people who have to help decision makers & need to practice SD in their daily work
Public administration should lead the change to more sustainable way of life by its positive example
UNECE Strategy objectives:
1. Ensure that policy, regulatory and operational frameworks support ESD
2. Promote SD through formal, non-formal and informal learning
Development of training
1. Training of future trainers of civil servants on SD in Croatia – project with the Dutch government
2. Creating the concept of the training and the manual on SD for civil servants in Croatia
3. Starting the trainings of civil servants
Chronology of trainingTime Part of
trainingContent Participants
22 - 23 April
2010
Initial training in basic skills for SD
Concept of SD, techniques and skills for integrating SD in your work
Future trainers from various ministries (20 part.)
14 - 18 June 2010
Study trip to the Netherlands
How is SD integrated in work of civil servants there, seeing positive examples
Selected 10 future trainers
September & October 2010
General trainers’ training in Croatian Ministry of Administration
Communication, teaching principles, planning & structuring of the lecture, dealing with problem situations
11 trainers in the first group, the rest of them in the second, later in October & November
25 – 27 October 2010.
Specific trainers training for ESD
Integration of teaching & SD competences, practical exercises, practice in presenting our subject, helpful practical advice
16 trainers – our final trainer group for initial trainings (will later help train the new trainers)
Results
Results at the end of 2010:• Trained trainers for SD• Handbook on SD for civil servants, prepared & written by
Croatian SD trainers• Created course on SD for civil servants
Current developments and plans for the future:• Trainers educating other civil servants• Croatian trainers offering other countries in the region
their experiences (so far: Serbia, Montenegro)• Public administration more aware of SD and working
according to its principles
Content of the training
Sustainable development
in practice
Introduction:- international context- Croatian context- sustainable
development matrix
Backcasting Stakeholders
Final examples- cradle-to-cradle
approach- examples of
sustainable development
1. Introduction
• Introduction to the term sustainable development and some other terms important for this theme
• International context
• Croatian context:– Legal framework and strategic documents of SD– Strategy for Sustainable Development of the Republic of Croatia– SD on national level– SD on local level– Application of SD in everyday life
• Sustainable development matrix
3x3 matrix of sustainable development
People Profit (or prosperity)
Planet Earth
Here & now
Later
Elsewhere
2. Backcasting
• Introduction to the backcasting
• Phases of backcasting:
a) Setting the timeframe
b) Analyses of current situation
c) Outlining the vision
d) Determining the significant areas
e) Choice of the path
• Exercise
3. Stakeholders
• Definition of stakeholders
• Choice of the project
• Development of the project, exercise
• Fishing game
• Tragedy of the commons
4. Cradle-to-cradle
• Cradle-to-grave ≠ Cradle-to-cradle• Production modes:
• Quality, efficiency, material management, added value• Examples
4a. Examples of SD
• Ecological design
• Fair trade trademarks
• Green public procurement
• Ecologically grown food served in school restaurants
• Vukomerić recycled estate...
• Exercise – what will you do / change in your life to make it more sustainable?
Result of the training
• Participants begin to truly understand the term sustainable development
• Learn how they can apply SD principles in their professional and personal lives
• Become enthusiastic about SD and truly motivated to follow its principles
• The course - basis for specialised modules to be developed in regional cooperation
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