Topic outline

    • Course

      Understanding rural poverty

      This course is the first in the Rural Poverty Reduction series, and provides an overview of rural poverty, and why it is so important to overcome it in rural contexts. The course describes the key concepts and definitions of rural poverty and how it can be measured, its drivers and cross-cutting themes. Finally, it considers the connection with gender issues and the way that gender shapes the way poverty is experienced by rural people.

      4 h

    • Course

      Reducing rural poverty: policies and approaches

      This course is the second in a series of e-learning courses on Rural Poverty Reduction. It considers the development of approaches to rural development through the 20th and early 21st centuries. It then describes the components of a multisectoral strategy and theory of change for poverty reduction, and the crucial role of stakeholder collaboration. The course then explains in detail the key policy areas that will lead to the goals of productive and inclusive rural transformation.

      3 h

    • Course

      Participatory frameworks and stakeholder strengthening for rural poverty reduction

      This course is the third in a series of e-learning courses on Rural Poverty Reduction. In it, you will develop an understanding of the actors and organizations involved in rural poverty reduction and the ways in which they interact. The importance of participatory framework, approaches and methods is highlighted, and the importance of a collaborative and inclusive way of working. Finally, the importance that capacities are developed in all individual actors and all rural organizations.

      2 h 30 m

    • Course

      Increasing the impact of rural poverty reduction strategies

      This course is the fourth in a series of e-learning courses on Rural Poverty Reduction. It describes important approaches through which the impact of rural poverty reduction strategies can be increased. These include poverty profiles, poverty maps and targeting.

      1 h 20 m

    • Course

      Theory-based impact evaluation for rural poverty reduction

      This course is the fifth in a series of e-learning courses on Rural Poverty Reduction. It considers the importance of evaluation of multisectoral strategies for poverty reduction, and describes and discusses the six principles of which theory based impact evaluations should be based in order to identify and test the causal mechanism through which these strategies leads to certain outcomes.

      1 h