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Professional Certificate inSustainable Water Management
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What you will learn

  • The fundamentals needed to achieve sustainable development and transboundary water cooperation while mitigating the effects of climate change on water systems
  • Key approaches to negotiation, including interpersonal skills and techniques
  • Lessons from concrete practices and case studies from around the world on international water law, management tools on transboundary water, and stakeholder participation approaches and tools
  • Understanding the governance, planning, diplomacy, and management of surface water and groundwater and the financing essential for progress
  • The scale, scope, and challenges in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a focus on the environmental, economic and social dimensions of SDG 6 and the critical role of water governance

  • Expert instruction
    3 skill-building courses
  • Self-paced
    Progress at your own speed
  • 4 months
    3 - 5 hours per week
  • Discounted price:$159.30 Original price:$177.00 USD
    For the full program experience

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SDGAcademyX's Sustainable Water Management Professional Certificate

Meet your instructors
from SDG Academy (SDGAcademyX)

Yumiko Yasuda
Danilo Turk
Jackie King
Aaron Wolf
Alistair Rieu-Clarke
Maria Vink
Sonja Koeppel
Nidhi Nagabhatla
Susanne Schmeier
Astrid Hillers
Barbara Janusz-Pawletta
David Hebart-Coleman
David Grey
Jerome Delli Priscoli
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Dr. Therese Sjömander Magnusson
Dr. Stefan Uhlenbrook
Dr. John H. Matthews
Dr. Angela Renata Cordeiro Ortigara
Dr. Marianne Kjellén
Dr. Alejandro Jiménez
Prof. Jan Lundqvist
Dr. Nathanial Matthews
Yumiko Yasuda
Yumiko Yasuda

Senior Network & Transboundary Water Cooperation Specialist

Global Water Partnership

Danilo Turk
Danilo Turk

Former President of Slovenia

Chair, High Level Panel on Water and Peace

Jackie King
Jackie King

2019 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate

Owner, Water Matters

Aaron Wolf
Aaron Wolf

Professor of Geography and Program Director

Oregon State University

Alistair Rieu-Clarke
Alistair Rieu-Clarke

Professor of Law

Northumbria University

Maria Vink
Maria Vink

Director of Transboundary Water Cooperation

Stockholm International Water Institute

Sonja Koeppel
Sonja Koeppel

Secretary of the Water Convention

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Nidhi Nagabhatla
Nidhi Nagabhatla

Senior Research Fellow and Cluster Coordinator

Climate and Natural Resources at United Nations University - CRIS

Susanne Schmeier
Susanne Schmeier

Senior Lecturer, Water Law and Diplomacy

IHE Delft Institute for Water Education

Astrid Hillers
Astrid Hillers

Senior Environmental Specialist and Program Manager

Global Environment Facility

Barbara Janusz-Pawletta
Barbara Janusz-Pawletta

GWP Technical Committee Member

Vice Rector, German-Kazakh University

David Hebart-Coleman
David Hebart-Coleman

Program Manager

Stockholm International Water Institute

David Grey
David Grey

Visiting Professor of Water Policy

University of Oxford

Jerome Delli Priscoli
Jerome Delli Priscoli

Chair

GWP Technical Committee

Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs

Professor

Columbia University

Dr. Therese Sjömander Magnusson
Dr. Therese Sjömander Magnusson

Ex-Chief Operations Officer

Stockholm International Water Institute

Dr. Stefan Uhlenbrook
Dr. Stefan Uhlenbrook

Director, Professor

UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

Dr. John H. Matthews
Dr. John H. Matthews

Lead and Co-founder

Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)

Dr. Angela Renata Cordeiro Ortigara
Dr. Angela Renata Cordeiro Ortigara

Associate Project Officer

UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

Dr. Marianne Kjellén
Dr. Marianne Kjellén

Senior Water Advisor

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Dr. Alejandro Jiménez
Dr. Alejandro Jiménez

Program Director for Content Development

Stockholm International Water Institute

Prof. Jan Lundqvist
Prof. Jan Lundqvist

Professor

Stockholm International Water Institute

Dr. Nathanial Matthews
Dr. Nathanial Matthews

Program Director

Global Resilience Partnership

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