ait extension catalog

Course Catalog 2010 - 2011

AIT ExtensionProfessional Education For Capacity Building

2 AIT EXTENSION CATALOG 2010 - 2011


Contents

Director’s Message ......................................................................................3

AIT Extension ................................................................................................4 Courses and Services .....................................................................6 Customized Courses .....................................................................6 Exposure Visit Programs ..............................................................6 Consulting Services .......................................................................7 Learning Approaches ...................................................................7 Networks ............................................................................................8

The Asian Institute of Technology .........................................................14 About AIT ...........................................................................................14 Schools and Fields of Study .......................................................15 AIT Publications ...............................................................................16

Collaborations and Partnership .............................................................17

Focus Areas ...................................................................................................21 Agriculture, Resources and Environment ...............................21 Education and Training Development ....................................22 Public Sector Management .........................................................23 Development Management .......................................................23 Information Technology and Engineering .............................24 Exposure Visit Programs ...............................................................25

Catalog Courses ...........................................................................................25 Agriculture and Food Security ...................................................26 Environment .....................................................................................31 Education and Training Development ....................................36 Poverty Reduction and MDGs ....................................................41 Management ....................................................................................46 Public Sector Management .........................................................60 Information and Communication Technologies..................67 Information Management ...........................................................74 Engineering .......................................................................................80 Exposure Visit Programs ...............................................................83

Customized Courses at AIT Extension..................................................90

Consultancy Projects ..................................................................................95

Application Information ...........................................................................97

Application Form .........................................................................................99

Frequently Asked Questions ...................................................................101


AIT’s vision is to be Asia’s knowledge center and thought leader in technological innovation for development to foster the emergence of a vibrant, prosperous Asia leading the world in innovative responses to the greatest challenges of the 21st century: global climate change and poverty. The Institute enjoys an international reputation based on the demonstrated value of its work and its dedication to applying academic skills to the great challenges facing the region. The Institute exists to advance our partners’ understanding of global changes and the impact of those changes in Asia, and to influence and enable development for the better.

In 2009, AIT celebrated its Golden Jubilee. At an event in Bangkok to mark the event, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus described his latest project – micro credit for beggars. He has already shown that lending tiny amounts to Bangladesh’s beggars can be good business, with repayment rates approaching 100%. This counter-intuitive business initiative is characteristic of the unconventional approaches to solving problems that Yunus has espoused. AIT is proud to announce that we will be partnering with Muhammad Yunus in a unique venture, the Yunus Center at AIT, which aims to provide an experimental incubator for such unconventional ideas. With CSR Asia, Asia’s leading thinkers on Corporate Social Responsibility, AIT has started the CSR Asia Center at AIT, which will offer a unique Executive Masters Program in CSR. A third center, the ASEAN Regional Center for Millennium Development Goals, will focus on increasing the Institute’s contributions to achieving MDGs 1, 3, 7 and 8.

AIT Extension is working closely with all three of these centers to expand AIT’s capacity to achieve its vision. As the continuing professional education center of the Institute, we are responsible for the delivery of short courses to a wide array of capacity building projects in different sectors. For example, we are working closely with the World Bank and Asian Development Bank-funded Punjab Resource Management Program to build the capacity of technical staff working in several departments of the Government of the Punjab. We are working with two central banks, Nepal Rastra Bank and the Bangladesh Bank, to build capacity at different levels. We are working closely with ADB-funded secondary education sector development projects to build IT and school management capacity in Sri Lanka. And we are part of AIT’s efforts to renew the Faculty of Engineering at Balkh University in Afghanistan.

But professional education is more than just short courses, and encompasses much more than ODA-funded work. With colleagues in the AIT Schools, we are exploring how courses in professional degree programs can be modularized, with modules offered as stand alone courses. And, thinking the other way round, how short courses might be credited towards degree programs. There is tremendous scope for increasing AIT’s reach in this way.

This catalog describes the scope of work undertaken by AIT Extension in 2010. We have included brief descriptions of the various centers and other initiatives through which we are building our capability to deliver appropriate interventions to a wide variety of clients. This includes courses offered in our 2010 Calendar, and other courses that can be offered as needed, and customized for particular clients. We look forward to continuing to serve the capacity-building needs of your organization and your country.

Director’s Message

Jonathan Shaw Director, AIT Extension


The Asian Institute of Technology is a leading international academic institute advancing technology-driven initiatives for the sustainable development in Asia. The Institute enjoys an international reputa-tion based on the proven value of its work and its dedication to applying academic skills to the great challenges of the region. It exists to advance our partners’ understanding of global changes and the impact of those changes in Asia, and to influence and enable development for the better.

AIT Extension is responsible for non-degree programs at AIT. We identify and respond to regional oppor-tunities for continuing professional education, short-course training and consultancy services, and in this way contribute to the realization of AIT’s mission to develop highly qualified and committed profes-sionals who play a leading role in the sustainable development of the region and its integration into the global economy.

We work with professionals in national governments, overseas development agencies, multilateral agencies, development institutions, private sector, development banks, consultants and NGOs.

AIT Extension


Our training resources include:

• An extensiva pool of academic and professional resource persons drawn from AIT’s schools, and from leading international and local organizations in the region,

• Professional staff who are specialists in human resources development, curriculum planning, instructional systems design, information technology application development and other spe-cific technological areas,

• State-of-the-art educational and information technologies incorporated into all training facilities on campus,

• AIT’s campus: a serene and relaxing environment for study,

• Hotel and student dormitory accommodation, a medical clinic, an international cafeteria, several restaurants and sports facilities including tennis and squash courts, a golf course and a swimming pool.

Entry requirements for courses in AIT Extension are flexible. Participants will usually have several years of relevant professional experience, and will be fluent in English. Formal academic qualifications are not necessary.

For customized courses, participants’ national languages or translation methods are sometimes used. Language requirements in such cases will be negotiated with the client.


Courses and Services

In 2010-2011, AIT Extension offer courses in the following specializations:

• Agriculture and Food Processing • Environment and Natural Resources Management • Education and Training Development • Poverty Reduction and Livelihoods Development • Business Performance, Management and Strategy • Development Effectiveness • Public Sector Services and Management • Private Sector Development • Information and Communication Technologies • Information and Communication Management • Infrastructure Development and Public Utility Management

Most international training courses usually last from one to three weeks.

Customized Courses

AIT Extension specializes in designing, developing and implementing short courses to the specifica-tions of particular client organizations. Every organization with which we work is unique, and change interventions required by our clients are most usually specific to that organization. Wherever required, therefore, we work closely with our clients to develop unique training solutions that meet their specific needs. This process will usually start with the clients’ own terms of reference, to which AIT Extension responds. Meetings are scheduled with the client to discuss all aspects of the required training, and to ensure that the client’s needs are met.

Exposure Visit Programs

Many professionals are interested in field visits to observe best practices in their field. Exposure visits are designed to provide senior government officials and decision makers with opportunities to visit and observe current technology and practices in their fields, to exchange information, to exchange experiences with local counterparts, project personnel and beneficiaries on development and manage-ment of similar projects, and to exchange views with participants from other countries. At the end of eacheprogram, a seminar is conducted at AIT to enable participants to reflect on what has been learned and what can be adapted to their own development contexts.

Thailand provides numerous examples of best practice in a wide diversity of fields. AIT Extension is also experienced in organizing exposure visit programs to many countries in the region, with recent experi-ence in Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and the UK.


Consulting Services

AIT Extension professional staff offer a wide range of technical assistance and consulting services. These include:

• Human Resource Development: Development of human resource development (HRD) programs and projects; assessment of training needs in organizations; evaluation of training courses, projects or plans; review and evaluation of the management and operation of training centers; management and implementation of training development projects.

• Educational Development: Curriculum design and development; evaluation of educational programs and projects; management and implementation of educational development projects; report writing and documentation.

• Information Technology: Strategic information technology planning; information system analysis and design; IT project management.

Learning Approaches

Our teaching and learning approach is to apply best practices in training, based on established prin-ciples of adult learning.

Training strategies that we use are consistent with the principles of adult learning: peer learning, reflec-tive thinking, problem-based learning, participatory learning and experiential learning. We aim to maxi-mize learning by mixing these approaches appropriate to each learning context.

Methods used include short presentations, group discussions, case studies, workshops, individual exercises, simulation, role-plays, project work, peer learning and exposure visits. Training sessions are designed to allow participants the scope to interact with resource persons and actively engage in the learning process. Participants benefit from close personal attention by AIT Extension staff. Our typical training course provides five to six hours of workshop sessions every weekday, with extensive social and cultural trips organized at the weekends in courses of two weeks or longer.

ICTs relevant and appropriate to every group of participants are incorporated into the course design.

Feedback from participants in one course is a critical input to subsequent courses. All our training courses are undertaken with the aim of continuous quality improvement.

All AIT Extension activities take advantage of AIT’s stimulating academic and social environment, and the Institute’s multicultural English-speaking academic community.


Networks

Overseas Development and Multilateral Development Agencies

Asian Development Bank

AIT Extension has served the Asian Development Bank since the late 1980s. National governments and public organizations from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka that receive loans and grants from ADB have sent government officials and project staff to attend short courses, seminars and workshops at AIT Extension. AIT Extension has also been contracted by ADB to implement medium/long term capacity building programs, and has supported the orga-nization of many ADB meetings at AIT. In 2003 and 2004, AIT Extension conducted several courses under the Phnom Penh Plan, including courses on Participation in Government and Civil Society and Rural Leadership. Since 2003, AIT Extension has worked extensively with the ADB-funded Secondary Education Modernization Project in Sri Lanka.

Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions

AIT Extension and Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) have jointly organized several International Workshops on ICT and Management in Agricultural Research for Development. AIT Extension served as host organization as well as taking the lead in managing learn-ing events and facilitating workshops on agricultural research information systems and knowledge management.

Canadian International Development Agency

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) provided funding to AIT for the Southeast Asia Urban Environmental Management Applications Project from 2003 to 2008. The project contributed to the improvement of urban environmental conditions in Southeast Asia. AIT Extension gave technical assistance to the project by providing consultancy services and facilitating policy dialogues workshop for national governments. AIT Extension also designed and conducted Training of Trainers on Planning and Management of Urban Environmental Infrastructure and Services.

Danish International Development Agency

The Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) country projects has provided funding sup-port for government officials and project personnel from Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia and Vietnam to attend short courses at AIT Extension. AIT Extension has had a long-term collaboration with the DANIDA-Rural Development Project of the Local Engineering Department (LGED), Government of Bangladesh to train LGED engineers and build capacity for rural development, community-based project management and rural road maintenance and management. AIT Extension trained the trainers and change agents of Livelihoods and Marine Protected Areas project, which was funded by DANIDA Vietnam. Since 2003, AIT Extension has worked with DANIDA’s Educational Sector Advisory Team in Nepal to support the development of the National Center for Educational Development.

DfID (UKAID)

Since 2008, AIT Extension has been working with the DfID-funded MATT 2 program (2006-2013) is a joint initiative of the Government of Bangladesh and DfID to develop reformed human resource man-agement systems within the Bangladesh Civil Service as an important building block for incremental administrative reform. It aims to create a critical mass of reform-minded civil servants who, through mutual support and pressure, at strategic and influential locations within the civil service, and through their own improved performance, will generate and demand administrative reform from inside the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS). AIT Extension contributes a Regional Exposure Visit Program as part of this process.


Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GTZ)

GTZ country offices and projects provided funding support for government officials and project per-sonnel from Nepal, Sri Lanka, and other countries to attend short courses at AIT Extension. In 2006, 2007 and 2008, GTZ-Nepal’s Urban Development through Local Efforts (udle) contracted AIT Extension to conduct seminar and exposure visit programs on subjects related to urban poverty reduction and public-private partnership in urban development.

FK Norway (Fredskorpset)

FK Norway is a public body answerable to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. FK Norway’s aim is to promote the mutual exchange of knowledge, experiences and skills. Since 2003, AIT Extension has worked with FK Norway to deliver a preparatory program for young professionals participating in FK’s South-South Programme. This program is an exchange of participants in partner networks between two or more developing countries. To date, 12 such courses have been organized at AIT.

SNV International

SNV country offices and SNV projects provided funding support for SNV staff and project personnel from Bhutan, Lao PDR, Nepal and Vietnam to attend short courses at AIT Extension. In 2006, AIT Extension provided two program specialists to conduct 5-day workshop on Good Governance in Public Services for SNV staff. In this workshop, AIT Extension worked closely with facilitators from Social and Economic Department, International Agriculture Center, the Netherlands.

United Nations Development Programme

During recent years, AIT Extension has worked frequently with UNDP Nepal and UNDP Bangladesh. A short course on Management for Development Results (MfDR) was developed and conducted by AIT Extension for government officials and UNDP staff from Nepal. This training course was sponsored by UNDP and ADB. AIT Extension was commissioned by UNDP Bangladesh to organize three seminar and exposure visit programs on Project Monitoring and Evaluation focused on MDGs. UNDP-Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction (UPPR) also requested AIT Extension to conduct study tour program on Urban Poverty Reduction.

United Nations Fund for Population Activities

The Department of Technical and Economics Cooperation, Government of Thailand and UNFPA-Asia Pacific Office (based in Bangkok) requested AIT to develop training modules for Training of Trainers (ToT) course. The course was designed for upgrading capacity of trainers of government officials and human resource development personnel in Thai public health organizations and institutions. AIT Extension conducted and delivered eight ToT course from 2001 to 2003, and it trained more than 150 trainers. These trainers were equipped with HRD knowledge and skills to deliver training courses on Family Planning and Reproductive Health for countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund

AIT Extension has been commissioned by UNICEF Jordan to develop training modules and conduct six short courses for government officials and staff of the General Directorate of Human Resources (GDHR), Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works (MMPW), Government of Iraq. The purpose of these courses, to be run in 2010, is to strengthen the effectiveness of GDHR in performing its training functions. It is expected that ultimately GDHR would have adequate qualified trainers, quality training curriculum and resources to deliver training course for MMPW staff.


Mekong River Commission

AIT has renewed its collaboration with the Mekong River Commission (MRC), with a recent agreement to collaborate on capacity development at various levels, joint research initiatives, e-learning, exchange of visiting speakers and internships at MRC for AIT students. Research will focus on adaptation mecha-nisms and strategies for climate change and transboundary water resources management.

Government and Autonomous Organizations

Afghanistan• Afghanistan Civil Service Institute• Balkh University• Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development

Australia • Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) • IDP Education Australia

Bangladesh • Bangladesh Bank• Bangladesh Electricity Authority• Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority (BEPZA) • Bangladesh Power Development Board• Bangladesh Public Administration Training Center (BPATC) • Bangladesh Road Transport Authority• Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) • Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) • BRAC • Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Systems (CEGIS) • Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) • Ministry of Agriculture • Ministry of Communications • Ministry of Education • Ministry of Establishment • Ministry of Finance • Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock • Ministry of Health • Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF)• Roads and Highways

Bhutan • Bhutan National Bank • Bhutan Telecom Limited • Department of Roads • Ministry of Agriculture • Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs • Ministry of Works and Human Settlement• Royal Civil Service Commission • Royal University of Bhutan

Hong Kong• CSR Asia• University of Hong Kong


India • Ministry of Agriculture• College of Agricultural Banking (CAB) • Department of Personnel and Training • Dhan Foundation • Indian Institute of Banking and Finance • Institute of Secretariat Training and Management (ISTM) • LEAD India • LOGOTRI • National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD),• Reserve Bank of India• State of Karnataka

Indonesia • Directorate General of Population Mobility • Institut Penilaian Negara (INSPEN) • Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB)• LEAD Indonesia • Ministry of Human Settlements and Regional Infrastructure • Ministry of Infrastructure • Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration • University of Jember

Iraq• Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works

Japan • EBARA Corporations and EBARA Hatakeyama Memorial Fund • Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Lao PDR • National Assembly • National University of Laos (NUOL) • SNV Laos

Malaysia • Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) • Institut Tadbiran Awam Negara (INTAN)• International Center For Leadership and Finance• Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA)• Ministry of Civil Defense • Ministry of Education • Prime Minister’s Office • SEAMEO Regional Centre for Education in Science and Mathematics (RECSAM) • University of Malay• University Sains Malaysia

Maldives • Maldives Airport Company Limited • Maldives Industrial Fisheries Company Limited (MIFCO) • Ministry of Atolls Administration• Ministry of Environment, Energy and Water • Ministry of Health • Ministry of Planning and National Development • National Planning Commission • President’s Office


Mongolia • Ministry of Education • The Bank of Mongolia

Nigeria• Ministry of Environment• Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC)• University of Calabar

Nepal • Department of Local Development and Agricultural Roads• Local Development Training Academy (LDTA) • Ministry of Information and Communication • Ministry of Local Development • Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction• Ministry of Physical Planning and Works • National Centre for Educational Development (NCED) • National Planning Commission Secretariat (NPC) • Nepal Administrative Staff College (NASC)• Nepal Rastra Bank • Nepal Telecom (NTC) • Non-Formal Education Centre • Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers • Tribhuvan University

Norway • Fredskorpset

Pakistan • Department of Health• Department of Planning and Development• Directorate of Staff Development (Punjab) • Higher Education Commission (HEC) • LEAD Pakistan • Provincial Institute of Teacher Education (PITE) • Punjab Resource Management Program (PRMP)• Rural Support Programs Network (RSPN)• University of Balochistan

Sri Lanka • Agricultural and Agrarian Insurance Board • Center For Banking Studies, Central Bank of Sri Lanka• Central Environmental Authority • Commercial Bank• Commercial Leasing Company• Federation of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Sri Lanka (FCCISL)• Institute of Environmental Professionals, Sri Lanka• Ministry of Agriculture • Ministry of Education • Ministry of Finance and Planning• Ministry of Human Resource Development• Ministry of Nation Building and Rehabilitation • North East Community Restoration and Development Project (NECORD) • North East Emergency Reconstruction Program (NEERP)


• North Western Province Provincial Council• Open University• Post Graduate Institute of Management• South Asian Institute of Technology and Management• Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration (SLIDA)• University of Sabaragamuwa

Switzerland • École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne (EPFL)

Tajikistan • Rural Development Project, Ministry of Agriculture

Thailand • Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) • Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives• Bank of Thailand • Chulalongkorn University • Department of Export Promotion • Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand• International Association for Registered Financial Consultants (IARFC) Thailand • Mahidol University• Ministry of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives • Ministry of Commerce • Ministry of Defense • Ministry of Education • National Science and Technology Development Agency • Royal Irrigation Department • Sirindhorn Institute for Continuing Education and Development (SICED) • Thailand International Cooperation Agency (TICA) • Thammasat University• TOT Public Company Limited

USA • Coastal Resources Institute, Rhode Island• College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • School of Travel Industry Management, University of Hawaii Manoa • The Bridge Fund• University of Western Samoa

Vietnam • Institute of International Relations • Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development • Ministry of Fisheries • Petro Vietnam

Zambia• The Copperbelt University


The Asian Institute of Technology

About AIT

The Asian Institute of Technology is a leading international academic institute advancing technology-driven initiatives for the sustainable development in Asia.

The Institute’s mission is to build intellectual capital and impart our values through our work:

• Teaching: Train leaders to hold the highest ethical standards, to think and to act beyond national boundaries, and to use knowledge and technology to serve society.

• Research: Conduct field research to achieve a deeper understanding of the complex interaction and interdependence of social and economic systems with the natural ecosystems so we can develop unconventional solutions that cuts across disciplines to achieve prosperity that is socially responsible and environmentally sustainable; and to bring that knowledge to the classroom.

• Practice: Work in the field with global and regional network of partners to develop comprehen-sive and innovative responses to the long-term development challenges of Asia and the world, and to connect the classroom with the field.

• Advocacy: Use innovative research, problem-focused teaching, and outreach to advocate for people centered policies designed to achieve our vision for a prosperous Asia.

AIT comprises three academic Schools, more than 30 established postgraduate courses, a number of high quality outreach centers, and a continuing professional development center. As the sum of these parts, AIT is an exceptional development knowledge hub for a global network of development partners.

The Institute is home to about 2000 students, approximately 150 academics, 100 research staff, 500 support staff, centers in Vietnam and Indonesia, and some 100 research projects. The AIT community extends far beyond its campus, including an extensive network of partners, alumni and former faculty and staff across working in all sectors within the region and far beyond.

AIT’s green campus covers 160 hectares, with excellent provision for field and laboratory research, cam-pus accommodation, and a wide variety of sports and other recreational facilities. It is within easy driv-ing distance of major commercial centers, hotels, schools and universities, hospitals, recreational and sports areas and other essential facilities.


Schools and Fields of Study

AIT’s three Schools offer graduate degree programs and conduct research across a broad spectrum of disciplines.

School of Engineering and Technology (SET)

• Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering • Construction Engineering & Infrastructure Management • Structural Engineering • Transportation Engineering • Water Engineering & Management • Computer Science • Information Management • Industrial Manufacturing & Engineering • Mechatronics • Telecommunications • Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems • Microelectronics

School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD)

• Agricultural Systems & Engineering • Aquaculture & Aquatic Resources Management • Energy • Food Engineering & Bioprocess Technology • Gender & Development Studies • Natural Resources Management • Pulp & Paper Technology • Regional & Rural Development Planning • Urban Environmental Management

School of Management (SOM)

• International Business • International Public Management• Management of Technology

Interdisciplinary Degree Programs

• Cleaner Production • Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management • Geosystem Exploration & Petroleum Geoengineering • Information & Communication Technologies • Integrated Tropical Coastal Zone Management • Integrated Watershed Development & Management • Management • Master of Agribusiness Management • Modeling Tools for Environmental & Resources • Offshore Technology & Management


AIT Publications

AIT Annual Report 2008 AIT Strategy 2013AIT Annual Research Report 2009

Above documents and other ait publications can be viewed here: http://issuu.com/kimescobin/docs


Collaborations and Partnership

ASEAN Center of Excellence in MDGs

In March 2008, AIT was designated by the United Nations as the site of the world’s first Regional Center of Excellence on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), dedicated to the promotion and achieve-ment of the MDGs in Southeast Asia through education and training. The Center focuses on contributing to four goals – Eradicate Extreme Poverty & Hunger (Goal 1), Promote Gender Equality And Empower Women (Goal 3), Ensure Environmental Sustainability (Goal 7), and Develop A Global Partnership For Development (Goal 8).

In his endorsement of the Center, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon noted that the MDGs “are no mere aspirations. They are commitments – sacred vows to the poorest, most vulnerable sections of humanity. Let us keep our promises. Let us build a world we can all be proud of”.

The Center functions as a coordination hub for the ASEAN region, and contributes to raising awareness and capacity building on MDGs. The Regional Center also supports civil society organizations and NGOs willing to become Centers of Excellence on specific MDG issues. Through this unique platform, AIT and its partners pledge to actively work with decision makers, experts, policy makers and representatives from civil society towards meeting the challenges in achieving the MDGs.

Yunus Center at AIT

The Yunus Center at AIT is a groundbreaking collaboration between Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus and the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand.

The Center’s mission is to contribute to poverty alleviation by enabling rural people to handle and be in control of improving their own farming and agriculture-related business. Center activities will pursue the objective of poverty reduction and sustainability with a focus on agriculture and food security issues, encompassing a variety of disciplines and facilitating interdisciplinary work in such areas as production of food, food processing, logistics, economic factors of consumption choices in the society, the use of food for energy as well as nutritional value of food, land ownership, soil quality, water use, subsidies, credit, market stability, market speculation, wholesale and retail distribution systems and insurance.

The Center will provide an unconventional, independent and open platform for finding solutions to intractable problems in poor people’s lives, especially those involving food securities. It will be an incu-bator for social business initiatives that challenge conventional academic and development wisdom, and will facilitate the generation of community-based knowledge. It will foster approaches to poverty alleviation that are in line with the broad mission of academic institutions but that do not fit within existing academic structures.

Asian Center for Corporate Social Responsibility at AIT

The Asian Center for Corporate Social Responsibility at AIT (ACCSR) is a partnership between AIT and CSR Asia, the leading provider of information, training, research and consultancy services on sustainable business practices in the Asia-Pacific region. The ACCSR is based at AIT, with a mission to advance the development and implementation of effective sustainability solutions for and by business as well as to facilitate development of the supportive framework conditions for CSR and sustainable development.

The ACCSR brings together the strengths of its two founding organizations. Both have extensive exper-tise in business and CSR, access to the networks of governments, NGOs and business, skills in knowl-edge generation and capacity development.


ACCSR will carry out training, research, consultancy services and deliver a professional Master’s degree in CSR. The Center will provide a platform for dialog and innovation for the representatives of the private sector in seeking creative solutions for the challenging issues of sustainable development. It will facili-tate knowledge development about the effectiveness of different approaches used in the field of CSR.

Target sectors are business and industry, government agencies and non-governmental organizations in as far as training, consultancy services and research are concerned. It will build a cohort of students that will take the modular, executive development, professional Master’s degree.

ACCSR will initially be a legally registered as a body within AIT, with operational support from AIT Extension. It will have a governing board comprising members nominated by AIT and CSR Asia.

SAP University Alliances Program (SAP-UAP)

In accordance with SAP University Alliances Program vision of ‘Empowering Tomorrow’s Workforce Through Education’, AIT, together with other universities around the world, has joined the SAP University Alliances Program as one of its community members. SAP-UAP serves as a channel for SAP to share world-class knowledge and best practices on how integrated system of Enterprise Resource Planning, Business Suite and Solutions help organizations to operate efficiently.

Center for Learning Innovation and Quality

AIT has recently founded a new Center for Learning Innovation and Quality (CLIQ).

CLIQ provides support to AIT Schools and faculty members in the areas of academic quality assurance, pedagogical innovation, curriculum development, and technology-enhanced learning. In association with AIT Extension, the center offers training and consultancy services, and disseminates best practices through the region. In 2009, CLIQ held a workshop on Change Leadership to Promote Teaching and Learning, which attracted 65 participants from universities throughout this region.

Within AIT, the Center is helping expand the repertoire of teaching approaches and strategies, advance the scholarship of teaching, and promote a climate of collegiality that inspires nurtures and rewards faculty who engage in efforts to improve student learning.

China Initiatives

AIT has been in discussion with the UNESCO International Research and Training Center for Rural Education (INRULED) to establish an AIT center, either in Beijing or in Shanghai, serving a number of regional centers. The center will channel AIT’s knowledge of private sector development, sustainable development and climate change adaptation and mitigation technologies to serve economic growth in inland provinces. The focus of activities conducted by the Center will be services to small and medium-sized enterprises in those provinces, and the application of green technologies. Tianjin has been chosen as a hub, because of its proximity to Beijing and connections with all provinces in China. We are also in discussion with a private developer to contribute to the development of an eco-city in southern China.

During the first phase of development, all training and consulting activities will be in putonghua or other Chinese dialects, with the hub in Shanghai (Beijing) responsible for training needs assessment, translating curriculum and learning materials into Chinese, and packaging and disseminating materials to regional centers. Regional centers are responsible for all aspects of the training, including identifica-tion of qualified, experienced resource persons locally.


Executive Masters in e-Governance

AIT is partnering with École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne (EPFL) for an Executive Master’s Degree in e-Governance. This one-year academic program comprises ten weeks study in seven coun-tries (Mexico, Rwanda, India, Thailand, Macau, Estonia and the Emirates), with students completing a thesis in their workplace. The program will take place under a new approach – By emerging countries, for emerging countries – and will enable motivated professionals of emerging countries to effectively use ICT as an enabler in the sustainable governance mechanisms and best practices of e-governance in public and private organizations. In the first program, students will spend one week at AIT in late 2010, and AIT will offer case studies of e-governance implementation in Bangladesh, Korea and Thailand, among other countries.

NCED-AIT Institutional Linkage Capacity Building Program

The NCED-AIT Institutional Linkage for Capacity Building Program (ILCBP), funded by DANIDA, is a link-age between AIT and The National Center for Education Development (NCED) which is an apex institu-tion mandated to lead the entire human resource development and institutional capacity building of all organizations under the Ministry of Education and Sports (MOES) of Nepal. The aim of NCED’s linkage with AIT is for continuous coordination and facilitation of technical support for the implementation of activities under NCED’s institutional capacity building plan.

Project activities implemented under the linkage program include the design, development and deliv-ery of customized short term training courses and in-country co-branded courses; the posting of an institutional capacity building consultant to develop the NCED Performance Management System (PMS) and support for the initial stage of implementation, the implementation and follow-up of post-training activities in various education training centers, and the conducting of coordination and review meetings and workshops to assess the linkage processes and to come up with recommendations to improve and ensure effective implementation of project activities.

The first phase of the partnership has been conceived as a three-year (2006-2009) collaboration between NCED and AIT. A Memorandum of Agreement for the second phase of the linkage program had been signed on 21 December 2009 with duration of five years, starting January 2010 to December 2014. Under the second phase ILCBP, AIT is expected to mobilize its resources on areas such as coordination support for organizing activities at the regional level, delivery of professional development courses, and technical facilitation as catalytic inputs to effective implementation of the activities at NCED. The program is also aimed at creating a forum for pooling technical resources through joint research studies. The program benefits will include capacity building of NCED and its allied organizations, namely the 34 Educational Training Centers, 46 Lead Resource Centers, 1053 Resource Centers as well as the entire MOES system.

Nepal Initiatives

To contribute to the capacity building programs of public sector, private sector and NGOs in Nepal, AIT Extension is establishing a representative office in Nepal. Longer term, AIT plans to open a campus in Nepal; this initiative is a first step towards that goal.

The Center will conduct continuing professional development courses in a broad range of relevant disciplines, focusing on governance and political reform, energy, food and water security, and develop-ment management capacity building. AIT Extension’s Resident Representative in Nepal will manage the office, which will extend the visibility of AIT in Nepal and help attract participants in Thailand for professional development courses.


Focus Areas

Agriculture, Resources and Environment

Agriculture continues to be the engine of inclusive and accelerated economic growth and livelihood security in the developing Asia-Pacific region, that holds over 55% of world’s total and 70% of world’s agricultural population but in terms of land availability it holds only one-fifth of that in the rest of the world (APAARI, 2009). While agriculture in the Asia-Pacific region is rapidly becoming commercialized with a focus on both domestic and export markets, the region is also experiencing stagnation in agri-cultural production and productivity. Changing consumer preferences coupled with issues such as food safety, labeling, traceability, and WTO trade regimes are influencing significantly the way food is pro-duced, processed, packaged and transported. At the same time, several megatrends are transforming the landscape of agriculture both in Asia and elsewhere. Recent economic pressure to find alternative fuels has seen the emergence of biofuel crop production, presenting both new economic opportuni-ties, and threats, to sustainable land usage, water usage and forests.

The potential for production is also being transformed by biotechnology and genetic engineering, offering hopes for better agricultural productivity and protection against pests and other environmen-tal impacts. However, biotechnology presents policy dilemmas, and remains politically divisive, in the absence of sound bio-safety mechanisms to ensure compliance with safety standards, especially in developed markets. Avian flu and other livestock-related diseases present new challenges, not least to the institutional capability of developing countries to manage, coordinate, monitor and implement appropriate measures to control current and emerging threats, and avert future ones. Not least of the challenges facing the agricultural sector are those presented by trade subsidies in the developed world, their impact on developing countries, and how these pressures shape the WTO and other global trade fora. Again, standards and certification remain central issues.

On the other hand the challenges of climate change and anthropogenic global warming now transcend national and international political concerns, and are central to the survival of the planet. Indeed, the conflict in Darfur has recently been called the first climate change war, and Lester Brown argues that the number of failed states is a bio-indicator for the health of the planet. Whether or not this is so, it is likely that conflicts over natural resources will increase dramatically in the 21st century, not least in Asia, many of whose three billion citizens aspire to standards of living already attained in developed coun-tries – aspirations that are driving economic growth and now placing intolerable strains on the natural environment, and are fuelling climate change. Tropical rainforests and wetlands are being cleared at an unprecedented rate, for agricultural use and aquaculture development, and increasingly for production of biofuel crops. As this happens, much of the world’s biodiversity is being lost – and with it the hope for solutions to long intractable agricultural and health problems. At sea, largely unregulated commercial fisheries have already destroyed many of our most valuable marine and coastal ecosystems. On land, more than half the world’s population now lives in towns, cities, and mega-cities, creating unprecedent-ed demands for energy, water supply, waste management and transportation.

In both the developed and the developing world, public awareness of what is at stake has never been greater. But how should governments, corporations, NGOs, educational establishments and individu-als respond to the challenges we face? The challenges faced in Asia, as in Africa and South America, however, are qualitatively and quantitatively different to those faced in Europe and North America. For example, a congestion charge may work in cities such as London or Singapore, but would be impos-sible to apply in Dhaka or Phnom Penh, or even in Bangkok. Forests, wetlands and natural resources in Europe are superbly managed and protected in ways that cannot be easily replicated in Southeast and South Asia.

What lessons have we learned in Asia that can be shared with other countries in this region? What are current best practices? AIT’s short courses on Agriculture, Resources and Environment provide


opportunities for professionals in all sectors to develop their knowledge on critical issues, learn from experience of peers in other countries, and share best practices and lessons learned from around the region through case studies, and to learn latest technologies for addressing complex issues. The short-term training and study visit programs address the emerging concerns of agriculturists, environmen-talists, natural resources managers, food scientists and engineers, researchers, policy makers, project managers, technical supervisors, field and extension officials, development workers, and NGO person-nel from developing countries in the region.

Education and Training Development

“Comprehensive and relevant capacity development programs for human resource in the education sector are needed to overcome many development challenges. There is an increasing need to raise the competencies of educators, trainers and providers of education services to ensure their readiness in responding appropriately to the demands of the stakeholders.

AIT’s short courses on Education and Training Development are designed for HRD professionals, teach-ers, trainers, instructional designers and subject specialists, and others with responsibilities for training or education in public and private enterprises and NGOs.”

Education plays a major role in driving both economic growth and sustainable development, and is one of the most powerful instruments in attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In 1990, national governments, civil society groups, and development agencies committed themselves to achieving Education for All (EFA). The six EFA goals cover early childhood, primary, secondary and adult education with emphasis in gender equality, women empowerment and bringing benefits of education to ‘every citizen in every society’. Although the

MDGs refer only to issues of universal primary education (UPE) and gender parity, the World Bank recog-nizes that achievement of these goals will require support for the full EFA commitment.

Together with these efforts towards providing every citizen with access to education, improving the quality of services is another major agendum of every developing country’s education sector. In recent years, many developing countries in Asia and other parts of the world have implemented education reforms focusing on decentralization of education management system, which is intended to support good governance and service-oriented practices. In these reforms, several funding agencies have sup-ported various programs and projects that help education ministries deal with issues on school-based management, curriculum development, and teacher quality improvement, among others, at the basic education level.

In the realm of higher education, quality assurance has emerged as one of the critical issues for univer-sity leaders. UNESCO’s key initiative on this is the Global Forum on International Quality

Assurance, Accreditation and the Recognition of Qualifications is aimed at providing a platform for dialogue between international frameworks dealing with quality assurance, accreditation and the recognition of qualifications. A major thrust of initiatives to improve quality in higher education has recently been directed at improving the quality of teaching, traditionally not considered problematic, but increasingly recognized as a critical factor in ranking evaluations.

In all these development efforts, information and communication technologies (ICTs) play a very impor-tant role. Education and training institutions are developing information systems and software for aca-demic and administrative applications to improve performance of key functions. Many high quality professional development programs are now delivered wholly or partly through the use of ICTs.


Public Sector Management

Overseas development agencies (ODA) and national governments of the developing countries have recognized that the successful implementation of poverty reduction strategy depends on improving efficiency of public sector. Donor agencies such as the World Bank, DFID, ADB, AusAID, DANIDA and UNDP have been strongly supportive to implement public sector reform and performance improve-ment programs. The global public sector management blueprint was developed by ODA aiming primar-ily at achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – addressing suitable mechanism and ways to build state capacity to implement programs/projects successfully over time.

Major strategic focuses of such development initiative are on public service delivery, performance management, quality improvement, decentralization, institutional restructuring, public sector profes-sionalism, good governance and combating corruption. It also addresses citizens’ empowerment to par-ticipate more effectively in shaping their own development, and to improved governance at local level.

Public Sector Capacity Building Program at AIT Extension values principles and lessons that public sec-tor in developing countries have learned from the past; approaches and processes to drive change that suits the country’s context; participation of key actor across sector to learn and interact; best practice applied by other countries to foster reform; and long-term partnerships and institutional networking amongst national, regional and international agencies to consolidate collective efforts to achieve inter-national development goals.

AIT Extension offers capacity development programs and training courses in the following areas:

• Performance Management in Public Organizations• Good Governance in Public Services• Client-Centered Public Service Delivery and Quality Management• Institutional Development and Knowledge Transfer• Sustainable Management of Infrastructure and Public Utility• Public-Private Partnerships• Human Resource Management in the Public Sector• Decentralization, Empowerment and Capacity Development of Local Organizations

Development Management

The World Bank envisions, ‘a world free of poverty’. USAID seeks ‘a better future for all’. DfID aims to ‘elimi-nate poverty in poorer countries’, ADB to ‘improve welfare’, and GTZ to ‘improve living conditions’, and so on. The Millennium Development Goals, a set of 8 bold promises to poor people around the world, seek to eradicate extreme poverty by 2015. But they also beg a critical question: How do we know we are making progress? This is also the same question that managers in both the public and private sectors ask themselves.

The challenges are daunting. Whether in the public or private sector, development organizations or multi-national corporations, all management professionals face the challenge of results: of assessing whether our activities have impact, drawing lessons to improve our results, and ultimately delivering on our development promise. AIT Extension Development Management courses seek to help our clients meet this challenge.

Development management and effectiveness is the ‘how’ of development. It addresses the knowledge, skills, and processes that underpin effective management. Today, management professionals no longer have the luxury of simply mobilizing resources to do good works. We have to demonstrate our impact. We have to progress toward our goals effectively and efficiently.


For most of us, this does not come easily.

The reality is that many management efforts are less effective than they should be. Our return on invest-ment could be higher. So what do the most effective organizations do differently?

The best have developed a performance culture. AIT Extension Development Management courses, therefore, seek to assist our clients in this process and provide the insight, capabilities, practices, and tools of effective development performance management. We help you build the results-driven vision, goals and value proposition in the different areas of your organization whether it is in finance, human resources, marketing or governance.

We help you recognize and address the specific barriers to effectiveness in your organization. And we help you develop the strong, committed leadership and staff, rigorous analytical problem solving, effective stakeholder engagement, and results-driven process and program design and management to overcome barriers and dramatically increase your impact.

Information Technology and Engineering

Information and communication technologies have become critically important area in the advance-ment to the global society. Not least because we increasingly live in a divided world and in an increas-ingly divided society, information and communication have pivotal roles in the development of a soci-ety. Technological advancement during the last few decades has transformed global society into an information society. Today, more than ever, ICTs are recognized as means for sustainable human, social and economic development.

Innovations in ICT and their diffusion lead to much more than faster communication and the simple automation of tasks. Many developing countries have accepted ICT as a national mission within an overall 4C framework of ICT: computers, communications, content, and human capacity. The challenges of ICT across all dimensions in the four interrelated features: awareness, availability, accessibility, and affordability require improvement in order to reduce the digital divide. Security and privacy issues are key concerns that place an implicit cost on transactions.

Engineering discipline is the creative application of scientific innovations, which is always dynamic as new technologies are emerging often in response to the human need for development. The rapid pace of technological advancement gives birth to new disciplines of engineering such as nanotechnology, mechatronics or computer engineering. Engineering is regarded as the key driver to the human devel-opment. Thus the development of engineering skills is vital for the social and economic development.

The ICT and Engineering training courses offered by AIT Extension will continue to stress on capac-ity building in the Asia pacific region. The focus of our courses will be on the development of skills in emerging domains of engineering and ICT that will enhance the information communication and engineering delivery capabilities of an organization.

Development of human capacity is one of the most important elements in harnessing ICTs to the development needs. With the mission of developing the human capacity of the developing and under developed nations in the Asia Pacific region, AIT Extension is imparting training on ICT based on the experiences of countries in the region. ICTs are to be applied successfully for sustainable development, and new capabilities must be established and sustained.

The ICT training courses offered by AIT Extension will continue to stress on capacity building in the Asia Pacific region and will focus more on later developments in the ICT disciplines that will enhance information generation and communication delivery capabilities of an organization.



AIT Extension offers exposure visit programs for professionals who are interested to learn practical working experiences from other countries. The highly interactive program format usually starts with seminar sessions aimed at sharing latest development in the particular field of study. The program then highlights the practical application of technical developments through field visits to relevant organiza-tions in Thailand. These visits provide

Exposure visit programs conclude with an integration workshop during which participants are able to debrief, clarify any outstanding questions, and plan for actions to be implemented in their own organization.

Catalog Courses


AF01: Horticultural Crop Production and Marketing (2 weeks)

Participants: Horticulturists, agricultural extension officers and planners.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance participants’ ability in commercial production planning, management of vegetables, tropical fruits, flowers and ornamental plants and to focus on crops produced in order to make it available commercially, particularly with those which have high market potential in participants’ home countries. Content of this course covers production planning, production technology, vegetable and flower production, tropical fruit production and horticultural marketing for local demand and exports.

The course involves case studies on agronomic, economic and marketing management of vegetables, fresh tropical fruits and selected ornamental plants. It also includes field visits to research and extension stations, leading farms, nurseries, producer cooperatives, agribusiness establishments, packaging and storage facilities for local supermarkets and export markets, quarantine facilities and process for export market, wholesale markets for ornamental plants, vegetables and fruits.

AF02: Small-Scale Livestock Development and Extension Techniques (2 weeks)

Participants: Animal scientists, livestock development planners and extension officers.

Course Brief: This course aims to improve participants’ capabilities for planning, implementing and managing small-scale livestock development programs and projects for rural poor, and transferring production technology to the farmers. The course focuses on planning for livestock development projects, livestock nutrition and health, animal production extension, and farmers’ institution strengthening.

The course includes case examples on several aspects of agronomic, economic and marketing management of vegetables, fresh tropical fruits and selected ornamental plants. Field visits to livestock research and extension stations, small-scale and commercial poultry, dairy; beef fattening and small ruminants farms are integral to the course.

AF03: Soil Management and Extension Techniques (2 weeks)

Participants: Agronomists, soil scientists, agricultural extension officers, and planners.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance participants’ ability to identify constraints of agricultural soils for crop production and corrective measures to restore and maintain their productivity. It also covers how to transfer those techniques to farmers through effective extension strategies. The course covers subject substance on soil fertility management, management of problem soils, soil conservation and extension techniques.

Agriculture and Food Security


Participants use case studies on community forest, agro-forestry, soil and water conservation measures, integrated development programs in forest area, public campaign programs, natural resources degradation and environmental impact by various forms of exploitation and development. Site visits are organized to projects on integrated watershed management, community forestry, or agro-forestry.

AF04: Agribusiness Development and Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Agricultural extension and rural development officers, farm and agribusiness managers.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance participants’ ability to plan the development of agribusiness entities, to implement new agribusiness entities, and strengthening existing ones. Course content includes agribusiness development planning, operation planning and management, agribusiness promotion and extension techniques, micro-finance, new agriculture/food technologies, and relevant case studies and exposure visits.

Participants study cases related to planning and operation of producers and traders in various agribusinesses entities such as vegetables, fruits, poultry, and dairy products. Field visits are organized to agribusinesses, farmers’ groups, agricultural cooperatives, small and medium-scale contract farms, food processing and preservation group, to have first-hand experience of various aspects of agribusiness development opportunities and operations.

AF05: Delivering Quality Extension Services (2 weeks)

Participants: Agricultural extension and rural development officers or managers, project managers, NGO personnel.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance participants’ competencies in new concepts and strategies, and practical skills for agricultural extension using result-based management approach. The course focuses on conceptual frameworks for rural and agricultural extension, quality management practices and enabling people’s participation.

Study visits to various agricultural extension projects, agricultural technology transfer centers, community learning centers, pilot farms and sustainable farm model are organized. Participants also prepare and present action plans for agricultural extension programs.

AF06: Marketing and Value Chain Management in Agriculture (2 weeks)

Participants: Agriculturists, agriculture extension officers, agricultural bank personnel, market development personnel, community development officers, NGO officials, policy makers.

Course Brief: The course aims to enhance participants’ knowledge on agricultural marketing plan and value chain management. At present marketing is considered as the most important aspect of any business, and the only action that results in revenue. And the main goal of value chain management states full and seamless interaction among all members of the chain, resulting in lower inventories, higher customer satisfaction and shorter time to market.


The course content covers a complete marketing plan and a high-level value chain model. A complete marketing plan constitute buying supplies or raw materials, renting equipment, paying labor, advertising, processing and selling goods. While the value chain model will emphasis on how to add value to the raw materials at various processes that include inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics, marketing and sales, and services. The study visits to the market authority offices and projects related to extension services for farmers.

AF07: Modern Biotechnology Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Scientists, biotechnologists, planners and policy makers.

Course Brief: This course addresses the current status and future directions of biotechnology and its management so that participants manage biotechnology in a safe manner for maximizing the public good. The course covers various aspects of biotechnology management, including the basics of biotechnology, biotechnology regulatory affairs, biotechnology law, biotech and environment, bioethics and current trends in biotechnology.

Study visits include exposure to state-of-the-art biotechnology laboratories, and private companies and government agencies engaged in biotechnology-related activities.

AF08: Food Safety and Quality Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Food technologist, food quality control/management managers, planners of food safety projects and programs, and personnel from research and academic institutions.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance knowledge on up-to-date policy and strategic issues on food safety. It provides participants with the skills needed to assess existing food safety and quality management systems, introduce improvements and communicate effectively with policy makers and with colleagues in multi-disciplinary teams. Training activity emphasizes practical elements delivered by successful food and agro-processing companies. It includes subjects related to appropriate technology, and methods and usage of laboratory facilities for research and analysis on food quality and contaminants including pesticide residues and heavy metals). Study visit to regulatory agencies will be organized to increase understanding on facilitating role in food quality control, safety policy and strategies as well as standard procedure for quality improvement. Participants will visit private firms demonstrate food quality management practices.

AF09: Biotechnology Policy Development and Analysis (2 weeks)

Participants: Mid- to senior level policy makers and policy analysts, technology managers in both private and public sector organization, civil society and non-governmental organizations, regional and international organizations.

Course Brief: This course will provide essential lessons in basic public policy making, and stakeholder participation for a comprehensive public discourse. Biotech policy analysis will be conducted using a variety of policy instruments developed by various country governments and regional and international organizations involved in biotechnology capacity building. The course will discuss options for developing policies for bio-innovation.


Course contents cover policy tools for trans-boundary disease management, role of public policies in biotech development, incentives for bio-innovation policies in Asia, societal issues, role of regulatory policies in the implementation of GM crops, policy frameworks for biotech food safety standards in Asia, general technology management issues in biotechnology management, mobilizing stakeholder participation public policy making, performance standards to ensure regulatory effectiveness and institutional challenges faced by Asian Countries for technology management.

AF10: Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) (2 weeks)

Participants: Regulators and regulatory affairs managers in both private and public sector organizations involved in biotechnology development, civil society and non-governmental organizations.

Course Brief: This course designed to enhance participants’ knowledge on risk assessment involves risk identification, risk characterization and quantification of risk, and risk mitigation with appropriate locally available tools. It also means developing guidelines and standard operating procedures for regulatory compliance. Risk communication is another critical tool for risk management that will be dealt with in the course. This course will deal with assessing the costs of regulations, and discuss ways and means to achieve cost efficiency by means of due diligence.

The course will involve lectures, demonstrations, case studies and comparative analysis of different risk assessment systems used in different parts of the world. There will be an in-depth presentations and discussions on the ‘precautionary principle’, now being hotly debated around the world.

AF11: Sustainable Land Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Agriculturists, agriculture extension officers, land administrators, officials from land development department, policy makers, natural resource managers, NGO officials working on agriculture and natural resources issues.

Course Brief: Very often, land is managed for multiple benefits that extend not only from agricultural production to biodiversity protection but also maintaining water quality and even human health. To ensure long-term sustainable benefits land managers must need to consider economic, social and environmental factors, and thus the course aims to enhance participants’ knowledge and awareness in such arena.

The course will give an overview on managing land without damaging ecological processes, which requires the maintenance of the key components of the environment: biodiversity, ecological integrity and natural capital. The course also has its focus on various elements of land management, strategies, practical skills, extension methods and techniques require for Sustainable Land Management. As part of the course study visits will be to sustainable land management projects, community learning centers, and recognized sustainable land management models. Participants will be required to prepare and present action plans for sustainable land management programs.


AF12: Sustainable Urban Agriculture (2 weeks)

Participants: Urban environmental managers, urban planners, agriculture extension officers, agriculturalists, agronomists, horticulturalists, community development officers and policy makers.

Course brief: The participant will be aware on how urban agriculture development can now be a part of the solution to making any city and its environment more sustainable. This course is designed to enrich participants’ knowledge on appropriate approaches and methods for planning of urban agriculture projects. It also focuses on the designing of agro-ecological settings to secure food production in urban communities.

Training modules cover important subject areas such as urban ecology, thresholds analysis and carrying capacity, farm management, crop cultivation technology (green house management, hydroponic and pipe irrigation), post-harvest technology and investment analysis. A study visit program is an integral part of this course, where participants will visit urban community development projects, greenhouse development and management in urban areas, city’s parks and gardens, and development of hydroponics technology.


EN01: Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (3 weeks)

Participants: Project planners and managers, environmental and social protection and planning officials, Environmental and Social Impact Assessors (ESIA) reviewers.

Course Brief: This course provides participants with a conceptual framework for ESIA as an effective planning and management tool. It also enables participants to critically evaluate ESIA studies and prepare evaluation reports. Course content covers EIA and SIA methodologies, technical aspects, their application to development projects, and social and environmental measures.

The course also integrates project work to be carried out by individual or groups pertaining development of ESIA for a development project. Study visits are organized to development projects in Thailand that practice ESIA, such as water resources development project, road and highways projects, and industrial estate development projects.

EN02: Economic Evaluation of Environmental Impacts (2 weeks)

Participants: Project economists and socio-economists, project managers, EIA practitioners and reviewers, government staff in executing agencies.

Course Brief: This course provides tools to assess the impacts of projects on natural resources and environment and to incorporate environmental costs and benefits in project economic analysis. The course focuses on theoretical concepts of environmental economics, environmental impact data for economic evaluation, applying valuation concepts and methods in project appraisal and incorporating valuation results in project economic analysis.

Participants study cases and work on exercises to enhance knowledge and have a better understanding of application of appraisal techniques and interpretation of results to support decision-making. Appropriate computer applications are used to demonstrate financial and economic analyses.

EN03: Environmental Risk Assessment (2 weeks)

Participants: Project officials, developers and managers in both public and private sector organizations, and NGO officials engaged in development projects.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance the knowledge and develop the skills of participants in analyzing risks and hazards to human health and welfare, structures and ecosystems resulting from developmental impacts on the environment, and to assess means of reducing these risks. The course focuses on assessment frameworks, hazard identification, hazard accounting or scoping, environmental auditing and safety measures to minimize risk. It also includes ERA tools and use of ERA results.

Environment


The course case analysis includes public awareness in waste management and hospital waste, industrial waste and radioactive waste management. The exposure visits are organized to hospital, solid waste and wastewater treatment and disposal system, toxic and hazardous waste treatment plant, meeting with community leader affected by industrial waste and regulatory organizations.

EN04: Toxic and Hazardous Waste Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Environmental planners, sanitary scientists, environmental engineers from both public and private organizations.

Course Brief: This course enables participants to formulate various control measures and minimization alternatives for toxic and hazardous wastes, and to plan appropriate systems for the treatment and disposal system for toxic and hazardous waste. The course content covers overview of toxic and hazardous waste management, toxic waste generation and composition, toxic and hazardous waste treatment and management.

The course integrates various case studies and group exercises related to policy issues and challenges, technological intervention and management strategies. Study visits are organized to toxic and hazardous waste management treatment sites, sources of pollution and affected communities, and waste collection and transfer centers.

EN05: Urban Environmental Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Urban development project officials, urban environmental planners, city/municipality’s officials, environmental planner, policy and plan analyst and NGOs engaged in urban development projects.

Course Brief: This course aims to enable participants to upgrade and update their knowledge and skills in analyzing urban environmental problems and impacts. It also enables participants to strategically identify appropriate corrective measures to minimize adverse effects and overcome problems caused by rapid urbanization. The course content covers emerging issues in urban environmental planning and management, integrated urban waste management, and strategic urban environmental management.

The course includes case studies on urban waste minimization and technology alternatives, public participation in urban waste management. Study visit are organized to solid waste bank and recycle plants, urban wastewater treatment plants, sanitary landfills, and city beautification and clean city campaigns.

EN06: Disaster Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Mid-level management government officials, policy analyst, engineers, planner, environmental planner/environmentalist, rural and urban planner.

Course Brief: This course aims to develop management strategies and systems for disaster preparedness, prevention/mitigation, response, recovery and reconstruction. Also utilize risk management principles in the context of their own geographical, socio-economic and cultural situations as well as identify key implementation issues and


requirements in their organizations for disaster management.

Course content covers introduction to disaster management, disaster risk management methods, disaster preparedness planning, response, recovery and reconstruction and also exposure visit to the affected areas. Participants are assigned to develop an action plan for their own organizations, and present this to an expert panel at the end of the course.

EN07: Participatory Watershed Management (3 weeks)

Participants: Natural resources development planners and managers, forest officers, rural development workers, agriculturists and agricultural engineers.

Course Brief: This course improves the competence of participants in beneficiary-oriented participatory planning and management of natural resources development, with a focus on watershed areas, to achieve sustainable development. The course focuses on planning tools and techniques, watershed management, soil and water conservation, community participation and institutional strengthening.

Participants have opportunities to visit integrated watershed management projects, community participation in forest resources, buffer zones and protected areas, and soil and water conservation sites.

EN08: Planning for Community Water Supply and Waste Management (3 weeks)

Participants: District and municipal engineers and planners, local government officials and civil engineers.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance knowledge and capability of district and provincial engineers and planners in planning, designing and managing community water supply and waste disposal systems. Course content covers water supply and sanitation development planning, water supply treatment and distribution systems, community waste management, management of waste supply and waste disposal projects.

The course includes case studies on related issues and exposure visits to community water supply projects, water purification plants and laboratories, waste transfer centers, disposal sites and treatment systems.

EN09: Environmental Governance (2 weeks)

Participants: Environmental development/protection planners and managers from public and private agencies, environmental engineers/scientists, environmental auditing and inspection officers.

Course Brief: This course aims to improve participants’ knowledge about environment governance, monitoring and enforcement, organizational performance, rules and regulations, stakeholder participation and transparency/accountability of environmental regulatory agency. Course content covers environmental issues and governance, regulatory measures and law enforcement, including remedial measures for environment


management, comparative review of environmental laws and legitimacy, and economic and financial instruments.

Participants have opportunities to visit, observe and make critical analysis of local environmental governance and monitoring projects, transparency and good public services, decentralized management of environmental management infrastructure and community based environmental management programs/projects.

EN10: Environmental Sanitation – Strategic Planning and Innovative Tools (3 weeks)

Participants: Environmental/civil engineers, sanitary engineers and technical staff, environmental planers municipality and local government staff, and project/program managers.

Course Brief: This course aims to upgrade knowledge and enhance skills of participants on strategic planning and management of environmental sanitation facilities. It provides theoretical concepts and management processes that enhance effectiveness in managing wastewater treatment system. Content of this course focuses decentralized wastewater management, fecal sludge management material flow analysis and household centered environmental sanitation. The exposure visit is organized to environmental organization of local governments, water supply and sanitation projects, environment-friendly sanitation facilities and decentralized wastewater treatment plants.

EN11: Sustainable Sanitation Systems and Technology (2 weeks)

Participants: Environmental planners, environmental engineers, sanitary engineers and technical staff of local government.

Course Brief: This course introduces knowledge on environmental friendly and sustainable waste

treatment system and provides guideline for planning and design of appropriate environmental facilities for specific locality. Participants upgrade skills in determining factors influence design, construction and operation of the system. It also gives participants with broader perspectives to evaluate and decide on type of technological know how that suits best with problem context. Course content covers natural waste/wastewater treatment system, constructed wetland, decentralized/clustered wastewater treatment processes, appropriate composting, and ecological engineering and sanitation. Participants also join site visit program to constructed wetland system, composting plants, solid waste collection and treatment stations and community-based waste recycle projects.

EN12: Industrial Wastewater Recovery and Reuse Using Membranes Technology (1 week)

Participants: Environmental engineers, sanitary engineers, and technical staff of water supply and environmental departments.

Course Brief: This course is designed to provide knowledge on actual selecting, installing and designing membrane -based systems for recovering and reusing industrial effluent. The course give guide to membrane technology and proceeds with a review of water quality parameters, and the ranges of values of these, for process and wastewaters with in a


number of industrial sectors such as power, pulp and paper, textile and pharmaceutical industries. There are also case studies, covering a range of applications, which are discussed with reference to design and operational facets of the water recycling treatment schemes.

EN13: Climate Change, and Response (1 week)

Participants: Decision makers in organizations in all sectors.

Course Brief: Recent scientific developments indicate that climate change may be a far greater problem than previously feared. While there may be some continuing disagreement about certain causalities, extreme weather events such as Hurricane Katrina are increasingly attributed to human interference, and the evidence that we need to prepare and adapt to climatic changes is now compelling. Recently, the film An Inconvenient Truth and the greater incidence of extreme climate events such as Hurricane Katrina have raised public awareness of the issues higher than ever before. Climate change is on every country’s agenda – so what does it mean for organizations in the Asia Pacific region?

Content covers basic science of climate change, mitigation technologies and policies, international negotiations, emissions trading and the project-based mechanisms, greenhouse gas mitigation in cities, industry and agriculture, sectorial and national policy implications for adapting to climate change, including water resource management, biodiversity, coastal zone management and disaster responses in the context of developing countries.

EN14: Community Based Disaster Risk Management (2 week)

Participants: Officials from humanitarian agencies and concerned government departments, members from citizen’s organizations, community head/leaders, NGO officials and policy makers..

Course Brief: Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) has been put forward as one of the mainstreams in any development plan and programs/projects. CBDRM, where people are at the heart of decision making, is a process of disaster risk management at the community level.

The CBDRM course aims to provide vulnerability assessment (VA) at the community level by identifying important community concerns such as livelihood and consumption, housing and social infrastructure, and gender and intra-household relations. The course discusses the basic approach to designing and implementing CBDRM programs that includes the process and the tools of participatory risk assessment, methods of analyzing hazards, hazard exposure and community vulnerabilities. It also focuses on resources that a communities need to reduce their vulnerability and adopt mitigation measures. Participants also go through an exercise on designing a CBDRM program followed by a field trip to a project site focusing on disaster resilient communities.


ED01: Quality Assurance for Higher Education and Training Institutions (3 weeks)

Participants: Education specialists and consultants, training managers, university administrators, educators and trainers.

Course Brief: This course aims to upgrade knowledge and enhance skills of the participants in designing and developing quality assurance (QA) systems and implementing QA activities for improvement of education and training processes.

The course modules include a review of QA concepts and principles, case discussions and critical assessment of quality management systems, standards and tools. Participants also engage in workshops and hands-on activities on how to develop tools and checklists to be used for auditing QA implementation activities. Study visits to institutions with established QA systems are arranged to expose participants to best practices in quality management.

ED02: Governance of Educational Institutions in the 21st Century (2 weeks)

Participants: School and university administrators and key officials, education department directors, heads and managers, education experts.

Course Brief: This two-week course aims to provide a venue for leaders, administrators and managers of education institutions to discuss about best practices in leadership and management of education institutions in the 21st century.

Through personal reflection, workshops and other participatory approaches, participants engage in discussions with expert resource persons on topics such as good governance, leadership and management challenges, change management, quality assurance and e-governance during classroom sessions and exposure visits to education institutions.

ED03: Knowledge Management in Educational Institutions (2 weeks)

Participants: Department directors and unit heads of education institutions, information managers and information support officers, officers-in-charge of intellectual property management units in education institutions.

Course Brief: Through this course, the participants acquire knowledge on basic framework and essential strategies for knowledge management along with important principles and best practices on ensuring content quality, information updating, and improving efficiency of the organization’s knowledge management support units. The final course outcome is a knowledge management system framework for an organization.



ED04: Managing and Facilitating Research in Educational Institutions (2 weeks)

Participants: Heads of research centers, units and departments in education institutions, research specialists, research managers and facilitators.

Course Brief: This course aims to provide a venue for researchers and research managers to discuss various issues and to brainstorm appropriate solutions to problems and challenges in effective management of student and faculty research in education institutions. The highlights of the course are a compilation of best practices and a framework for how to improve research implementation processes; benefits and incentives to researchers; and intellectual property management aspect of research activities.

ED05: Management of Training Centers (3 weeks)

Participants: Directors of training centers, training and development managers, training officers, HRD personnel.

Course Brief: This course aims to upgrade knowledge and enhance skills of present and prospective training center directors and training managers in leadership and management of training center activities, services and resources for improved organizational performance.

This three-week intensive professional development course focuses on training center management and development particularly in the areas of leadership, strategic management, resource management, trainer and training staff development, quality assurance of the training process and application of information and communication technologies in training center management. The course also benefits all management and operational staff involved in the management of training function in private and public organizations and NGOs.

ED06: Training of Trainers (3 weeks)

Participants: Trainers, training managers and officers, HRD personnel from government agencies, private companies and NGOs.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance one’s training capabilities by providing substantial opportunities for participants to practice various skills necessary for effective training delivery.

Through participatory training approaches and techniques, this intensive course covers the solid foundations of the training process namely: needs assessment, training design, session planning and delivery, and training evaluation. Participants are engaged in workshops and hands-on activities on training design and delivery. Study visits to training centers are arranged to expose participants to best practices in training management and delivery.


ED07: Advanced Competencies for Trainers (3 weeks)

Participants: Trainers, training managers and officers, HRD personnel from government agencies, private companies and NGOs.

Course Brief: This course aims to raise trainers’ competencies to a higher level. Participants learn advanced techniques for group facilitation, maintaining an active learning environment, sustaining learners’ interest, coaching and appropriate applications of e-learning in the training environment.

ED08: Ensuring Training Quality (3 weeks)

Participants: Training managers and training officers, and HRD personnel from government agencies, private companies and NGOs.

Course Brief: This course aims to develop consciousness and proactive behavior among the participants in responding appropriately to various challenges in training implementation and management in order to increase the value and effectiveness of training courses.

The course will focus on best practices in training implementation and management, assessment of training quality and effectiveness, continuous improvement of customer service in training and assessment of return on investment (ROI) of training courses.

ED09: Development and Production of Learning Packages (3 weeks)

Participants: Instructional designers, course development specialists, university teachers, and trainers from government and private agencies and NGOs.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance knowledge and develop creative skills in designing, developing, and producing packages for various instructions of any subject areas.

The course covers print media, audio-visual materials, and interactive multimedia learning packages both for off-line and online teaching and learning delivery modes. Participants are engaged in discussions on principles and concepts and practical hands-on exercises and activities geared towards the final outcome - a learning package for the participants’ organizations.

ED10: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Education Management (3 weeks)

Participants: Education managers and specialists involved in ICT committees in schools and universities, managers and officers of ICT centers in education and training institutions, other staff involved in providing ICT support in education institutions.

Course Brief: This course aims to upgrade knowledge and enhance skills in integration of ICT into education institutions’ academic, management and administrative activities. The course contents highlight the importance of improving ICT curriculum in education institutions; appropriate ICT framework and infrastructure to support the teaching/learning process; and application of ICT in the management and administrative functions of education institutions.


ED11: Participatory Curriculum Development (2 weeks)

Participants: School and university teachers, educators and trainers who are involved in design and development of education and training curricula.

Course Brief: This course focuses on how to improve the curriculum development process by highlighting the importance of participation of various education and training stakeholders.

Through this course the participants will gain insights into how the various inputs and experience of stakeholders will be used to improve the curriculum quality. The course will also deal with the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the curriculum.

ED12: Workshop and Study Visit on Design and Implementation of Non-formal Education and Life Skills Development Programs (2 weeks)

Participants: Educators and project officials from government agencies and NGOs involved in developing non-formal education programs and activities.

Course Brief: Through purposive combination of study/field visits, group discussion and opportunities for personal reflection, this course aims to provide a venue for educators and project officials to discuss about their experiences and best practices in development and implementation of non-formal education and life skills development programs and activities.

In this course, participants will be engaged in formulating framework on how to improve programs and activities using the best practices observed in Thailand as well as their own country contexts.

ED13: Education Strategic Planning and Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Planning directors and deputy directors, school principals & deputies from education sector.

Course Brief: Strategic planning is the springboard of quality. That is the basis of AIT’s Education Capacity Development Course, “Strategic Planning in Education: Ensuring Your Good Planning Leads to Results.” This course seeks to provide an actionable framework for education planners to meet best standards of practice internationally.

The course applies a comprehensive approach to creating, organizing, and implementing an educational strategic plan. It provides step-by-step advice, case studies, analytics, and exercises for producing a successful strategic plan in the Education context, whether for an institutional initiative, a departmental review, or national agenda. The course is designed specifically for educational leaders who are cognizant of the formidable challenges of strategic planning in education, with its communication and organizational complexities. The course emphasizes the importance of linking assessment and planning, and managing for results.


ED14: Education Planning, Budgeting and Monitoring (2 weeks)

Participants: Directors, deputy director’s and accountants working in the education sector.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance knowledge and skills of educators and administrators in developing strategic management and performance measurement for educational results and effectiveness as well as developing modern leadership and management competencies for educational change aligned with national development goals and international education perspectives. Course content includes key steps and success factors of decentralized education planning and management, strategic plan into a Logical Framework for effective outcomes-driven implementation; develop workable and contextualized key performance indicators and quality criteria for educational results, deploy the essential competencies of effective management and leadership, in an Education context, appropriate educational management tools and techniques for result-based educational management, implement budgeting for, and monitoring of, the Education plan, so as to improve educational outcomes.


PL01: Leadership in Rural Development (2.5 weeks)

Participants: Development planners, administrators, officials, extension officers, project and program managers or officers, and NGO personnel.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance participants’ competencies to become effective leaders in strategically identifying problems, designing, and managing rural development programs/projects using systematic and analytical approaches. The course content covers latest poverty reduction principles, models and strategies, development tools and techniques, leadership and organizational development, stakeholders’ participation and empowerment, public-private partnerships and networking. It also includes case studies, best practices, exposure visits and rural development planning workshop.

PL02: Modern Municipality and Local Government Management (2.5 weeks)

Participants: Development planners, administrators, managers or officials in development agencies, municipalities or local governments.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance participants’ competencies in organizational capacity development and effectively provide and manage development services to their clients. The course content covers modern municipality administration and management, decentralization, public participation, governance, innovations in local governments and municipal management, healthy cities and livable communities, capacity analysis and institutional planning. It also includes case studies, best practices, exposure visits and planning for municipality development workshop.

PL03: Small Enterprises and Market Mobilization (2 weeks)

Participants: Development planners, administrators, officials, cooperatives or extension workers, rural bankers, credit officers, NGO personnel in rural/agricultural and urban sectors.

Course Brief: The course aims to enhance participants’ competencies in designing and developing micro-enterprises and markets for small producers. The course content covers SWOT analysis and planning for micro-enterprise development, market analysis, strategic product design and development, value chain and cluster development, quality standards, effective branding, packaging and marketing strategies, ICT and e-commerce, business plan, financial management, business networking and micro-credit services. It also includes case studies, best practices, and exposure visits to entrepreneur development projects in rural and urban areas.

Poverty Reduction and MDGs


PL04: Management for Development Results (MfDR) (2 weeks)

Participants: Senior and mid-level development planners, managers or official from public organizations and NGOs.

Course Brief: Managing for Development Results (MfDR) is a management strategy that focuses on development performance and on sustainable improvements in outcomes. In other words, it provides a framework for development effectiveness in which performance information is used to improve decision making. Practical tools for strategic planning, risk management, progress monitoring, and outcome evaluation are rooted in MfDR.

This training course will assist participants in understanding basic concepts and principles of Managing for Development Results (MfDR), technical tools used for planning, monitoring, assessing and reporting results. The course will upgrade knowledge of participants on practical approaches and applications of MfDR into their own field of work. The participants will have opportunities to upgrade their skills in the integration of project logic models at the national and local levels, and will equip them to prioritize, carry out monitoring and evaluation, and measure outcomes.

PL05: Service Quality Management for Rural Development (2 weeks)

Participants: Development planners, administrators and officials, extension officers, project or program manager or officers and NGOs personnel.

Course Brief: The course aims to enhance participants’ competencies in providing and delivering demand-led, outcome-based services for their clients. The course content covers new functions of development agencies as service providers, managing demand-led service systems, quality concepts and quality management models, tools and techniques, quality index, quality management system for local authority. It also includes case studies, best practices and exposure visits to development agencies applying service quality management practices in agriculture, education, health and rural development at central and local levels.

PL06: Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Thailand & Malaysia (2.5 weeks)


Course Brief: The course aims to enhance participants’ competencies in promoting advancement of women of low-income communities towards gender equality. The course content covers concepts and strategies in mainstreaming gender in development policies and activities, gender development in education, health, employment, legal status and decision-making, development of gender gap index, leadership development for women. It also includes case studies, best practices and comparative exposure visits to gender development projects in Thailand and Malaysia.


PL07: Strategic Development Planning for Pro-Poor Growth: Thailand & Vietnam (2.5 weeks)


Course Brief: The course aims to enhance participants’ competencies in planning and developing pro-poor growth strategies. The course content covers concepts of poverty reduction, growth and equity, pro-poor growth principles, strategic & competitive analyses, strategy map, macro-economic determinants of pro-poor growth, pro-poor development policies, employment and trade, alignment of public expenditure and sector institutions. It also includes case studies, best practices and comparative exposure visits to pro-poor growth development schemes in Thailand and Vietnam.

PL08: Capacity Development for Disaster Risk Reduction and Rehabilitation (2.5 weeks)

Participants: Development planners, administrators, managers or officials in development agencies.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance participants’ competencies in planning and managing on disaster risk reduction and rehabilitation at local levels. The course content covers and risk reduction and mitigation concepts, disaster and crisis management, participatory community risk assessment in drought/flood prone areas, early warning systems, local level emergency action plan, rehabilitation of settlement, infrastructure and natural resources and income generation activities for disaster victims. It also includes case studies, best practices and exposure visits to projects initiated by Government agencies, NGOs and private sector organizations working in disaster-affected areas.

PL09: Making a Rights-based Approach to Development Work (2 weeks)

Participants: NGO workers, development planners, administrators and officials, extension officers, and project or program managers and officers.

Course Brief: The course aims to enhance participants’ understanding of the principles and practices on rights-based approaches to development and their applications to various development sectors in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Course content the concept of rights-based development, the challenges of implementing rights-based approaches and achieving MDGs, the roles of development agencies and NGOs, globalization and human rights, mechanism for making rights-based approaches work, and rights-based approaches programming. The approach includes case studies, best practices, and exposure visits to development agencies working on rights-based approaches to development on governance, social or economic rights.


PL10: Sustainable Tourism Planning for Pro-Poor Growth (2.5 weeks)

Participants: Development planners, administrators, managers or officials in development agencies related to poverty reduction schemes.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance participants’ competencies in mainstreaming and managing sustainable tourism for local economic growth and poverty reduction. The course covers principles of sustainable tourism, tourism and national economies development, potentials and challenges of pro-poor tourism and its impacts, mainstreaming sustainable tourism in development agenda, sustainable/pro-poor tourism strategies, destination management, resources mobilization and HRD. It also includes case studies, exposure visit and tourism development planning workshop.

PL11: Strategic Development and Management of Tourism Destinations (2.5 weeks)

Participants: Development planners, administrators, managers or officials in development agencies related to poverty reduction schemes.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance participants’ competencies in planning and managing sustainable tourism at local/community level as a mean to poverty reduction and local economic development. The course content covers planning and development of community tourism, rapid assessment, attraction and facility inventory, impact analysis, strategic planning for niche community tourism products and services, management of community tourism, hospitality, safety, customer services and quality control. It also includes case studies, exposure visit and community tourism development planning workshop.

PL12: Rural Entrepreneurship Development (2 Weeks)

Participants: Policy makers, community development officers/planners, community mobilizers and NGO officials, agriculture extension officers, SME planners and SME consultants.

Course brief: The course aims to enhance knowledge and skills of participants on policy and planning for development of rural entrepreneurships projects in rural communities. This course emphasizes on strategies that government agencies should implement to upgrade capacity of community people to operate SME projects and rural business development programs.

The course contents cover strategic planning for rural entrepreneurship development, rural business development, community empowerment, gender issues, community-based organization, micro-finance and SMEs management, and capacity building and knowledge transfer. The participants will have opportunity to visit community organizations, SMEs projects, rural entrepreneurs of one-village-one-product rural areas and local agro-processing cooperatives.


PL13: Urban Poverty Reduction (2 Weeks)

Participants: Policy makers, urban/town planners, community development officers/planners, community mobilizers and NGO officials, economists and local change agents.

Course brief: The course focuses on up-to-date planning approaches and management strategies to implement urban poverty reduction projects and programs. The training program is designed in accordance with key elements addressed in the MDGs and it provides with techniques and tools that help achieving expected results.

The course contents cover urban poverty reduction strategies, good governance, result-based management, community-based organization, community empowerment, micro-finance model for urban poverty reduction and public-private-partnership. The participants will have opportunity to visit pro-poor urban housing projects, community participation in community development planning, community organizations that manage urban development funds and income generation activities in urban communities.

PL14: Sustainable Coastal Community and Ecosystem Management (2 Weeks)

Participants: Coastal Zone Planners and Managers, Administrators, Managers and Officials in Development Agencies, NGO Officials and Policy Makers.

Course Brief: Sustainable coastal community development and ecosystem management has become an integral part of any coastal zone management program/project and local development plan for coastal states or districts. Being the most dynamic area of the earth, the coastal area in any country is witnessing overwhelming pressures on its resources and hence putting the local community in high/extinction risk.

This course aims to enhance participants learning opportunity on latest development of coastal ecosystems management and sustainable livelihoods practices in coastal areas. The course covers seminars on sustainable coastal resources utilization, solutions to conflict resource users, and community participatory planning and implementation. The exposure visits to the projects working on research and study on coastal area development and rehabilitation, technology transfer, community-based co-management and conservation, alternative income generation and livelihoods development and institutional capacity building for coastal communities.


BM01: AIT Performance Leaders™ Series: Finance and Performance Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Senior finance managers, business owners, company executives, and aspiring finance leaders.

Course Brief: This advanced course in finance transformation guides participants in exploring and adopting the principles of advanced Finance and Performance Management leadership in Asia. It is an applied course in performance management that focuses on helping experienced participants to immediately apply proven finance concepts in their organizations. The course takes a broad, integrated approach to finance. It helps companies develop capabilities among their staff in specific finance core competencies and manage the increasing pressures on the finance function to balance cost management and regulatory compliance with building capabilities in finance and performance management that can drive profitability, growth, and, ultimately, exceptional performance.

Content covers the theory and practice of five specific finance and performance management core competencies, including creating a performance-driven organization, instilling enterprise-wide performance management, optimizing finance operations, improving capital efficiency, and mastering risk management. Content also includes transforming the finance function into a competitive weapon, structuring and managing organizations to maximize the finance function, and building internal finance capabilities.

BM02: Organizational Financial Planning and Cost Control (2 weeks)

Participants: Finance managers and officers from private and public organizations and NGOs.

Course Brief: This course enhances participants with advanced tools and techniques for organizational financial planning and analysis to enable them to make appropriate and effective managerial decisions. Topical content of this course covers financial planning, financial accounting and budgeting, strategic cost control, and computer applications in financial management.

The course includes case studies, case discussion and exposure visit program to explore and learn relevant issues discussed in classroom sessions.

BM03: Finance for Non-Finance Managers (1 week)

Participants: Managers from functional areas other than finance.

Course Brief: This course aims to improve understanding of financial statements and to provide tools to determine the effects of different kinds of decisions on financial profitability. The course covers interpreting financial statements, evaluating financial performance and time value of money, capital budgeting, cost of capital and effects of leverage.

Management


BM04: AIT Performance Leaders™ Series: Human Capital and Organization Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Senior and mid-level HR and training executives, business owners, company executives, and aspiring HR, training, and general business leaders.

Course Brief: This advanced course in HR transformation guides participants in exploring and adopting the principles of Human Resources and Organization Management leadership in Asia. It is an applied course in human capital development and management that focuses on helping participants to immediately apply proven HR and workforce-development concepts in their workplaces. The course takes a broad, integrated approach to human capital development. It helps companies develop capabilities among their staff in specific human resources core competencies, particularly within the critical sales, customer service, finance, and strategic planning functions, build industry-leading workforce skills, and improve the effectiveness of the HR and training functions in all aspects of talent management, from recruiting, career development and performance management to learning, rewards, recognition, and compensation.

Content covers the theory and practice of five specific HRM core competencies, including, workforce proficiency, workforce performance, employee engagement, workforce adaptability, and human capital efficiency; four distinct levels of HR metrics, including business unit results, key performance drivers, HR competencies, and HR processes; and critical and leading-edge HR strategies. Content also includes transformation in the HR and training functions; leadership and management development in 5 critical functional workforces (sales, finance, marketing, strategic planning, and information technology); overcoming critical HR and training shortcomings; and outsourcing to improve HR and training performance and effectiveness.

BM05: Strategic HR Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Senior and mid-level HR and training executives, business owners, company executives, and aspiring HR, training, and general business leaders.

Course Brief: In today’s fast-changing, knowledge-driven world, people are your organization’s core asset and primary differentiator. Accordingly, today’s HR function must be able to take the lead in developing people, boosting performance, and crafting a set of integrated HR and organizational capabilities. In short, today’s HR function must be able to play a strategic role in your organization’s success.

This course prepares HR professionals to recognize and play that strategic role. It focuses on the skills, tools, and practices required to guide a fundamental shift in the way that HR thinks and acts - from simply performing administrative tasks, processing transactions, and streamlining work processes to proactively enhancing your organization’s ability to attract, develop, and retain superior performers, and keep them focused on corporate goals.

To transform HR, organizations must align HR strategy with corporate goals and establish performance measures that gauge HR’s success in terms of both meaningful business results and improvements in the performance of your organization’s workforce. This is something HR departments often don’t - or can’t - do today.


HR transformation is not simple, but it is no longer a luxury. It is a competitive necessity. A truly strategic HR function is able to fill three key roles: business advisor, change leader, and functional expert. This course guides participants through a series of practical steps and techniques that HR professionals can use to transform their HR function into a source of competitive advantage and become a truly strategic corporate function.

BM06: Managing People and Service Businesses (1 week)

Participants: Senior and mid-level executives; Strategy executives; Managers in finance, marketing, sales, and operations; aspiring business leaders.

Course Brief: People businesses are the fastest-growing sector in developed economies, and are quickly becoming the same in Asia. The unparalleled success of India’s fabled Technology Services firms, of China’s newly public banks, and – let’s face it, Asia loves to learn, travel, eat, and shop – consumer businesses throughout Asia are but the first examples of an undeniable trend: Asia is getting wealthy and people businesses are leading the way.

But people businesses have different managerial economics, respond to different managerial strategies, and need to be managed, therefore, by different techniques than traditional businesses. This course guides participants in discovering and applying those techniques. Emphasis is placed on the building blocks of effective people businesses and five areas of people businesses that are markedly different than traditional businesses: performance metrics, human resources strategies, management, team-building, and leadership, growth strategy, and new service and product innovation.

BM07: Human Resource Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Senior and middle level managers and executives from public and private organizations and NGOs.

Course Brief: The course aims to improve participants’ ability in optimal human resource utilization to enhance individual and organizational compatibility through individual and group efforts. Emphasis is placed on developing human resource management skills for positive growth and development. Topical content of this course covers Latest concepts on HRM, enhancing employee capability, personnel administration, culture and change and making HR as strategic function.

The course includes exposure visit programs to government and private organizations that have best practices in managing their HR functions, performance management system and continuous staff development practices.

BM08: HRD Skills for Functional Managers (2 weeks)

Participants: Middle and senior managers working in public and private organizations, functional specialists.

Course Brief: This course equips participants with appropriate behavioral skills for managing and leading people for achieving organizational objectives. Content in this course covers interpersonal skills, leadership skills, advance techniques for negotiation skills, dynamics


of team building, and information processing and decision-making skills. The course also focuses on staff development, capacity building strategies as well as continuous performance improvement.

Study visits are organized to leading organizations in Thailand to get insights into HR performance management practices, career development and planning, and training and staff learning functions.

BM09: AIT Performance Leaders™ Series: Value-Based Strategic Planning and Execution: Driving Profitable Growth in Asia (2 weeks)

Participants: Senior and mid-level executives; Strategy executives; Managers in finance, marketing, sales, and operations; aspiring business leaders.

Course Brief: This advanced course in strategy transformation guides experienced managers in applying the strategies, principles, and tools of profitable growth and value-based management. Consistent revenue growth is critical – indeed, by far the most important contributor - to delivering shareholder value. But the relationship between growth and shareholder value is neither simple nor straightforward. Growth can destroy value just as easily as create it. And different types of investors value growth differently. Depending on a company’s investor mix and the type of growth it pursues, capital markets can end up punishing your growth strategy rather than rewarding it.

This course examines how senior executives in Asia can navigate the key choices and tradeoffs around growth, in order to create superior shareholder value. It provides an analytical framework for thinking strategically about growth, your best growth strategy, and its role in shareholder value creation. Particular emphasis on product mix, markets served, growth strategy, and advanced strategic planning processes and execution. The module draws on the most recent literature on value based strategic management.

BM10: AIT Performance Leaders™ Series: Strategic Marketing and Maximizing Customer Loyalty (2 weeks)

Participants: Senior and mid-level marketing executives, business owners, company executives, and aspiring marketing and general business leaders

Course Brief: This advanced course in marketing transformation guides participants in exploring and adopting the principles of Marketing and Customer Management leadership in Asia. It is an applied course in marketing that focuses on helping participants to immediately apply proven marketing and customer loyalty concepts in their workplaces. The course takes a broad, integrated approach to marketing. It helps companies develop capabilities among their staff in specific marketing core competencies and influence customer loyalty though integrated marketing, sales and customer management.

Content covers the theory and practice of five specific marketing core competencies, including brand value creation, creating and shaping demand, marketing productivity, technology in marketing strategy, and performance objectives. Case studies and course instruction are focused on helping participants improve business performance, by enhancing core marketing capabilities, against four key measures in particular: customer satisfaction, retention and loyalty; profitability, margins or returns; revenue growth; and shareholder return.


BM11: Price it Right: Advanced Course in Strategic and Value-based Pricing (1 week)

Participants: Senior and mid-level managers; Executives and staff in finance, marketing, and production; business owners; executives in industries that appear to have little pricing power.

Course Brief: When did you last raise prices? In Asia, it’s tough. More common is the refrain, ‘We’re in a commodities (or competitive or overcapacity) business; we have no pricing power’. Unfortunately, such myopic thinking costs Asia’s business billions in lost sales and profit.

This course is an advanced practicum in strategic pricing. It helps participants use pricing strategy to boost their earnings through advanced pricing strategies, and fast. It guides participants in using pricing strategies to optimize profits, increase sales, expand market share, and create sustainable advantage. Emphasis is placed on choosing from among six core pricing strategies, understanding the tradeoffs between price, volume, and profit, and then systematically identifying opportunities in which strategic pricing increase profit and growth.

BM12: Marketing Management (1 week)

Participants: Mid to senior level executives working as marketing directors; marketing manager; brand manager; general manager; directors of business development; and business intelligence manager.

Course Brief: The course provides senior managers and decision-makers with an overview of marketing as a discipline and a framework for marketing as a value creation process. Participants learn how to evaluate marketplace potential and risk from the perspective of the company’s ability to grow and deliver goods and services of meaningful customer value.

Content of this course covers marketing as value creation, analyzing buyer behavior, selecting the target market and positioning the product, generating maximum customer value, capturing created value for the company and marketing management.

BM13: Building and Nurturing Competitive Advantage (1 week)

Participants: Senior-level executives responsible for developing and implementing competitive strategy; participants are likely to be employed in industries such as consumer products, financial services, high tech, manufacturing, and telecommunications.

Course Brief: This course aims to design for executives responsible for developing and implementing competitive strategy. Participants learn how to formulate and evaluate new competitive strategies; determine how to lay the groundwork for change; and Put their action plans to work for their companies. Topical content of this course covers environmental scanning, competitive positioning, the economics of competitive advantage, competitor analysis, sustainable competitive advantage, and global industry presence.


BM14: Strategic Supply Chain Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Senior and mid-level supply chain executives, business owners, company executives, and aspiring supply chain and general business leaders in all industries who would like to (or should be!) embracing a performance-driven approach to supply chain management.

Course Brief: This advanced course in supply chain transformation guides participants in exploring and adopting the principles of Supply Chain Management leadership in Asia. It is an applied course in supply chain management (SCM) that focuses on helping participants to immediately apply proven SCM strategy and concepts in their workplaces. The course takes a performance-driven approach to SCM. It helps companies develop capabilities among their staff in specific SC core competencies and drive - not just influence - business performance through their supply chains. Most supply chain managers – and senior executives - still see “greater efficiency” as their principal SCM mission. Certainly, efficiency improvement remains critical for most Asian corporations. But a narrow drive to improve SC efficiency propagates an inward focus on cost control. This course helps firms embrace a performance-driven SC focus that deploys supply chain strategies to drive overall business performance and guides participants in thinking about how to position their supply chains as engines of differentiated market positioning and sales growth.

Content covers the theory and practice of SCM core competencies, including supply chain dynamics and economics; mastering, balancing, and optimizing the Five Vs of supply chain performance (volume, velocity, variety, volatility, and value); shortening the supply chain, demand management and supply/demand matching, inter-company SC collaboration, responsive SC design strategies and operating models, jointly defined SC KPIs, leveraging 3rd parties to develop and distribute new products quickly, making customers, employees, and competitors an integral part of the SC change and improvement process; value-finance-SC linkages; and internet strategies to achieve SC advantage.

BM15: Public Relations for Business Success (1 week)

Participants: Managers in public and private organizations, and in NGOs responsible for marketing, corporate communications, analyst/public/media relations and e-business strategy.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance communication, public relations knowledge and skills as well as to establish and maintain cooperative relationships with representatives of community, consumer, employee and public interest groups. The course covers fundamental knowledge public relations, essential PR skills and crisis management, managing PR of an organization, public relations strategy and implementation.

BM16: Leading Change and Organizational Renewal (1 week)

Participants: Mid to senior managers in companies operating in fast-paced business environments, and who are struggling with the issues of winning through innovation and becoming more responsive organizational change.


Course Brief: This course aims to offers participants hands-on experience and an integrated set of concepts and tools for leading innovation, change, and organizational renewal. Topical content of this courses covers organizational structures for performance, organizational problem solving, the dynamics of innovation and organizational change, organizational culture, leadership styles, and winning through innovation.

BM17: Management of Organizational Change (2 weeks)

Participants: Senior managers working in public and private organizations in functional areas of production, finance, marketing, human resource management and development.

Course Brief: This course enhances participants’ skills to initiate change, manage transition, stabilize change, and handle consequent conflicts to achieve a better ‘organization-environment’ fit. Topical content covers understanding change, types, forces and models of organizational changes, strategic planning for organizational change, and change implementation.

The course includes case studies, case discussion and exposure visits to explore and learn relevant issues discussed in classroom sessions.

BM18: Strategic Negotiations for Long Term Organization Success (1 week)

Participants: Senior managers facing challenging negotiations in the course of their work. They include executives working in companies in diverse industries realigning corporate strategy, undertaking sizeable deals, settling major disputes, and balancing multiple stakeholders’ interests.

Course Brief: This course aims to provide business leaders with strategic negotiation concepts in general. Participants study a variety of cases and examples from different types of companies in the region. Topical content of this course covers the concept and importance of negotiation, negotiation types, dimensions and styles, the interpersonal dimensions of negotiation, conducting negotiations, key negotiating skills, and exposure visits.

BM19: Effective Management Skills and Techniques (2 weeks)

Participants: Mid-level managers in public and private organizations, and in NGOs.

Course Brief: This course aims to introduce management tools and resources to the new manager, to encourage the developing leader and to allow the experienced professional to work on particular problem areas. This course also aims to enable participants develop modern effective management skills and techniques to enhance growth of their organizations. The content covers interpersonal skills, leadership and team building, and decision making and problem solving.


BM20: Advanced Management for Asia–Pacific Managers (2 weeks)

Participants: Senior managers and administrators of public and private organizations.

Course Brief: This course is designed for leaders and executives to acquire new skills to proactively cope with the complex and dynamic business environment and prepare participants for a multi-competency role. The subject content covers human resource management, cross-cultural management, performance appraisal, talent management, financial management and process excellence.

Participants visit government agencies, state enterprises and corporations well known for management excellence and good governance.

BM21: General Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Senior managers and administrators of public and private sector organizations.

Course Brief: This course aims to develop new skills to proactively cope with the complex and dynamic environment and prepare them for a multi-competency role. The substance of the course covers managers and their organizations, strategic planning and management, human resource management, financial management, and information processing and decision making skills.

BM22: Office Management Skills (2 weeks)

Participants: Office managers working in private sector, NGOs and public sector organizations.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance the knowledge of office manager regarding the role of office manager and its importance and to upgrade core office management skills. It provides opportunity to share experiences of best practices of office management among participants and also to assist participants in the effective implementation of learning in the work context.

Content of this course covers introduction to office management, management of office environment, management of resources, office productivity tools, ICT in Office Management and self-management skills.

BM23: Small and Medium Business Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Entrepreneurs, business executives, and extension officers.

Course Brief: This course aims to provide the participants with the necessary knowledge and tools for either planning a new business venture or for continuing and strengthening an existing small business. The focus of this course is on small and medium businesses, marketing for small and medium businesses, financial management for small and medium businesses, and HRM and information management for small and medium businesses.

Study visits to small and medium size business organizations, community organizations, and rural industries enterprises are organized to provide practical exposure to


participants. The participants also prepare an action plan or a business development plan for their organization.

BM24: Advanced Course in Improving Corporate Governance and Board Performance in Asia (2 weeks)

Participants: Senior managers, board directors, regulators, majority shareholders, owners of private companies, and aspiring business and regulatory leaders in Asia.

Course Brief: This course is an advanced practitioner’s guide to improving a company’s governance foundations in Asia. These foundations include financial reporting, the independence of auditors, regulatory enforcement, and legal systems. Just as important - and far trickier - is actually getting companies to comply, so the course also focuses implementation.

Six features unique to Asia inhibit the effectiveness of boards in Asia and make the wholesale adoption of Western corporate-governance practices inappropriate: a high concentration of ownership, weak recruitment processes and a shortage of experienced directors, poor focus, inadequate information, complex cultural traditions, and underdeveloped legal regimes. Overcoming these problems and creating a vibrant and constructive board environment pays off in better performance and a lower cost of capital. This course enables participants to apply strategy and best practices in corporate governance to improve growth and performance. Content includes creating an enabling regulatory environment that promotes corporate governance; designing and enforcing corporate governance strategy; corporate governance principles and procedures; and disclosure and financial management in public and private enterprises.

BM25: AIT Performance Leaders™ Series: Strategic IT Management: Transforming IT from Business Support to Business Driver (2 weeks)

Participants: Senior and mid-level IT executives, business owners, company executives, and aspiring IT and general business leaders.

Course Brief: This advanced course in IT management transformation guides participants in exploring and adopting the principles of IT Management leadership in Asia. It is an applied course in IT management that focuses on helping participants to immediately apply proven IT performance-improvement concepts in their workplaces. The course takes a broad, integrated approach to IT investment and performance management. It helps companies develop capabilities among their staff in specific IT management core competencies, view IT as a strategic investment, achieve an integrated and innovative role for IT across the organization, and advance IT from business support to business driver.

Content covers the theory and practice of five specific IT management core competencies, including industrialization (using key performance metrics to align IT’s work with the broader business), innovation (investment in, and early adoption of, leading-edge technologies that create business value), information (leveraging information for real-time business insights and analytics), infrastructure (reducing enterprise-wide costs through cost-efficient IT operations), and integration (enabling the enterprise through IT-led integration).


BM26: Information Technology and Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Senior managers from public and private organizations in functional areas of production, finance, marketing, human resource management and development.

Course Brief: The foundation course in IT management provides participants with managerial perspectives on the strategic advantages of using information technology for organizational efficiency. It also concentrates on issues of IT as a resource for competitive advantage and innovation. The course content covers managerial decision making, educational information system, enterprise resource planning, IT applications, IT planning and development and project management.

Study visits to relevant organizations using IT applications in resources planning and project management are organized for participants.

BM27: AIT Performance Leaders™ Series: Outsourcing: Mastering the Four Key Phases (1 week)

Participants: Senior and mid-level operations executives, business owners, company executives, and aspiring general business leaders in all functions who would like to (or should be!) evaluating outsourcing as a means to achieve process excellence throughout their firm.

Course Brief: This advanced course in outsourcing transformation guides participants in exploring and adopting the principles of Outsourcing leadership in Asia. It is an applied course in outsourcing that focuses on helping participants to immediately apply proven outsourcing concepts and practices in their workplaces. The course takes a broad, integrated approach to outsourcing. It helps companies develop capabilities among their staff in specific outsourcing core competencies. By mastering and competing on differentiating competencies, and then outsourcing or seeking alliances for business processes, companies can build process excellence into every aspect of their operation, and thereby generate the greatest value.

The course reflects both a new maturity in the way companies in Asia understand the outsourcing life cycle and hard-won expertise in getting the most from an outsourcing arrangement. Content covers the theory and practice of the four key phases of the outsourcing life cycle (planning for business outcomes, partnering, governance, and execution; the 15 core competencies and best practices that drive those phases; and the 7 drivers of outsourcing success and how they are applied in various industries by leading outsourcers.

BM28: Management and Leadership for Engineering and Technical Professionals (1 week)

Participants: Engineers, IT professionals, scientists, and other technically competent professionals in Asia in, or newly promoted to, management positions, or who wish to prepare themselves for such a transition.

Course Brief: Technically competent engineering and information technologies professionals in Asia and throughout the world face new challenges when they move into management positions. They need to address people issues involving their staffs (and people in


other departments within their organizations), business issues in understanding their department’s role in the context of organizational business goals and strategies, and leadership issues in staff motivation and extending influence throughout an organization.

This specialized course in Management and Leadership for Engineering and Technical Professionals provides the knowledge and skills that technical professionals need to be effective managers. Participants who complete this course will be better equipped to find solutions to interpersonal problems, address departmental matters both operationally and strategically, improve their staff members’ motivation, and ensure that their departments’ activities are in alignment with their organizations’ goals.

BM29: Business Analyst Foundation Course: At the Interchange of Business and Technology (1 week)

Participants: Business analysts, business systems analysts, software system architects, product marketers, product managers, quality assurance analysts, programmer analysts, and other professionals who are facilitating or leading process improvement efforts.

Course Brief: Business analysts study the overall business and IT needs of an organization in order to develop appropriate solution strategies. As the key liaison between business and information technology departments, the business analyst is responsible for gathering and documenting business requirements and translating them into functional system design specifications that can be successfully executed by IT development teams.

This course focuses on the core skills, techniques and practices required of an effective business analyst. It is designed to give people new to the business analyst role, or those who supervise business analysts, a basic understanding of the functions and business impact of this role. The course provides a special focus on the business analysis function as it relates to the development of IT solutions and the business analysis project life cycle. Content includes the role of the business analyst, gathering and documenting user requirements, modeling the business, business case analysis, process modeling, quality management and testing.

BM31: Financial Management, Accounting and Audit (2 weeks)

Participants: Mid to senior level accountants in government and private sector and University lectures from department of accounts.

Course Brief: This course curriculum provides a highly interactive professional development experience and capability upgrade in the principles, tools, and techniques of effective financial management and Accounting. Its overarching learning objective is to “turn theory into practice,” and give participants the understanding and ability to discuss, present, and manage the financial aspects of their agency and influence the performance factors under their control.

By the end of the course, participants will have gained a clear understanding of business finance, how to interpret financial statements such as profit & loss, the balance sheet, cash flow forecasts, risk analysis and break even figures. It will highlight the key financial areas and they should be addressing as a manager and know when to look out for warning signals. Understand how, why and when need to raise capital for business


DE01: Project Management (3 weeks)

Participants: Development officers, extension officers, project managers, and project leaders in government, private companies and NGOs.

Course Brief: This three-week course aims to enhance knowledge and skills of participants on project planning, management, implementation and controlling. The course content covers project planning and appraisal, project management tools, project management and control, project monitoring and evaluation, human resource management, and exposure visits.

In addition to classroom sessions, exposure visits are organized to various development projects for participants to gain experience on management practices. The participants also gain exposure to Thai rural planning systems, integrated agriculture, rural development projects, public infrastructures, water resources development projects and community-based development project.

DE02: Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation (3 weeks)

Participants: Project Managers, Project management professionals and practitioners in the public or private sector and non-government organizations.

Course Brief: Projects are the building blocks of results. To achieve sustainable economic and social development, policies, strategies and plans must be converted into action. This is done through projects. Given a scarcity of resources, projects must be properly planned and implemented.

However, it is well known that a majority of projects fail or fall short of their promise. Moreover, even projects delivered “on time and on budget” may still be failures if they do not also deliver the value you expect. Seasoned project managers know this. They are aware of the Project Management “triangle” of time, money and scope. Yet, as many as 50% of project failure nonetheless result from poor scope management, which is to say the combination of all project requirements and tasks, and the work required to accomplish them.

AIT’s approach to Project Management therefore integrates global standards and proven strategies, skills and techniques in Project Management with best practices in Managing for Results to help ensure that your project – simple or complex, large or small – delivers the value and results you intend.

AIT approaches Project Management as a strategic, outcomes-driven discipline that uses performance information and practical management tools from strategic planning, risk management, progress monitoring and outcome evaluation, to help you improve your project decision making and leadership. We aim to help you steer work processes toward clearly defined goals, increase program impact and improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of your project and project teams, both small and large.

This course aims to develop the competencies of the participants in managing projects. Through instruction, case studies, site visits and project simulation, participants in this course experience real-world situations in which your decisions impact the outcome of your project.


DE03: Management and Implementation of Development Projects (3 weeks)

Participants: Development project and program planners, managers, coordinators, development officers, extension officers, leaders in government, private organizations and NGOs.

Course Brief: This course aims to provide participants with techniques needed to manage and implement effectively the development projects in their region. It also aims to improve development project planning, managing, implementing and controlling skills of participants. This course covers subject content on overview of project management and planning, developing a project implementation plan, project management and monitoring, tools for monitoring projects, and site visits.

Study visits are organized to various development projects to get to know their practices in management implementation. These visits highlight Thai rural planning systems, integrated agriculture, rural development projects, and infrastructure and water resources development projects.

DE04: Managing for Development Results: Practicum in Improving Effectiveness and Impact through MDR (2 weeks)

Participants: Policy advisors and public sector managers working to achieve national development outcomes through government programs or projects; development agency staff and managers who are working within their agencies, across agencies, and with partner countries to support country development outcomes; political decision makers and management, technical and institutional practitioners, civil society and the private sector.

Course Brief: This advanced practicum aims to help experienced development practitioners

better manage for results. MDR is an impact-driven management strategy that uses performance information and practical management tools from strategic planning, risk management, progress monitoring, and outcome evaluation, to improve project decision making, steer development processes toward clearly defined goals, and increase program effectiveness and impact. It seeks to answer the critical development question, How will we know we have succeeded?

The course is an advanced, case-led operational practicum that builds on the foundation laid by the above course offerings. It increases understanding of the ideas behind MDR, provides the opportunity to observe MDR in action, and shows how to apply MDR in country-led and international development projects at all levels and within a variety of interventions (national, sector, program, project and organization).

DE05: Strategic Management of NGOs (2 weeks)

Participants: Senior and middle level managers of NGOs operating in the region.

Course Brief: This course aims to strengthen the capacity of NGOs by providing latest management principles, concepts and methods on strategic management, effective management functions and challenges faced by NGOs. Course content covers strategic focus and organizational analysis, strategic financial management, capacity building of human resources, managing for results, and case studies.


The training course includes exposure visits to well-known NGOs operating in Thailand to give participants first-hand experience of best practices.

DE06: Conflict, Mediation and Dialogue (1 week)

Participants: Senior managers working in the public sector, project managers, high level officers from NGOs and the private sector.

Course Brief: This course aims to increase participants’ awareness about conflict and develop mediation and negotiation skills and techniques. It covers conceptual aspects of conflict, focusing on the cost of conflict, behavior that escalates and de-escalates conflicts, mediation skills and principles of workplace mediation, appropriateness of mediation in different conflict situations, role of a mediator in conflict management, effective conflict resolution skills, management skills for mediation such as communication, listening, feedback and facilitation skills.

DE07: Managing Micro Enterprises: Interventions, Development and Programs (2 week)

Participants: Professionals working in micro-enterprise from the public or private sector and non-government organizations.

Course Brief: This course aims to develop the competencies of the participants in managing micro-enterprises.

This course provides a highly interactive professional development experience and capability upgrade in the principles, tools, and techniques for enterprise development initiatives. It gives participants the understanding and ability to discuss, present, and manage the different concepts and approaches in entrepreneurship, strengthen communities and deal with various stakeholders in the process.


PM01: Tackling the Needs of Children and Youth: Opportunity or Time Bomb? (2 weeks)

Participants: Development planners, administrators, officials, extension officers, project and program managers or officers, CSR officers, and NGO personnel.

Course Brief: The under-25 age group is unique from an economic perspective, and crucial for human development and economic growth. It is the optimal point for interventions and investments to build human capital, which are the principal means to increase social mobility and reduce intergenerational poverty. Today’s under-25 age group, however, represents both an opportunity to move toward the MDGs and a potential time bomb for current development strategies. The choice is ours, and we have to make it now.

This course seeks to help clients end the cycle of intergenerational poverty in many countries by addressing the children and youth (C&Y) agenda in a systematic and integrated manner and guide more effective C&Y development. Content covers a strategic framework for action in C&Y interventions; developing, implementing, and monitoring C&Y operational plans; improving coordination among C&Y sectors, networks, and regional activities; ensuring consistency with development strategies in companion sectors; providing effective and innovative knowledge management to serve the sector; promoting improved C&Y learning outcomes; collaborating on C&Y issues with international agencies, donors, and other countries; and raising funding to effectively explore, document, and respond to the needs of children and youth.

PM02: Trade Development Strategy and Strengthening Capacity for Trade in the New Global Context (2 weeks)

Participants: Business leaders, government ministers and public leaders, policy makers, trade promotion and regulatory managers, think tanks, universities, and civil society actors who seek to equitably advance the private sector.

Course Brief: Despite sustained efforts, many of the poorest countries and communities have not yet been able to integrate successfully into global markets, and hence to participate in the growth-inducing and poverty-reducing benefits of trade. To address this shortfall, the trade, aid and finance communities have developed more coherent strategies to help developing countries integrate with the global economy. This course explores and applies these strategies, and guides practitioners in building a country’s capacity for trade.

The purpose of this course is to strengthen trade capacity for development. As such, it centers on the four principal components of a robust trade development strategy, namely, trade facilitation, trade infrastructure development, trade promotion and, trade relations management, and helps countries put in place sustainable trade policy frameworks and processes. It also explores Asia intra-regional trade development, strategies, opportunities, and leadership.



PM03: Meeting the Challenge of Globalization: Making Globalization Work (2 weeks)

Participants: Development planners, administrators, officials, extension officers, project and program managers or officers, CSR officers, and NGO personnel.

Course Brief: Globalization – the increasing integration of economies and societies around the world – is one of the most hotly debated topics in international development. Rapid growth and poverty reduction in China, India, Vietnam, and other countries that were poor 20 years ago, has been a positive aspect of globalization. But globalization also has consequences. Among them, increased inequality, environmental degradation, unsustainable mass consumption, and the growth of mega-cites have raised alarm. What can be done to make globalization work for all?

Using the most recent research on globalization and evidence from countries and case studies, this course explores and seeks to resolve five critical development questions: What is globalization? Does more international trade openness increase world poverty? Is globalization exacerbating inequality? Has globalization caused a “race to the bottom” in environmental degradation and standards? What can we do about it? Content includes a framework to address the key issues related to globalization, how developing countries can enlarge the gains from globalization, a review of the essentials of economic globalization, an in-depth analysis of the WTO, which has been the focus of so much negative attention, and what might be done to change both the WTO itself and the public’s perceptions of it.

PM04: Transportation Strategy and Transport-Infrastructure Development (2 weeks)

Participants: Development planners, administrators, officials, extension officers, project and program managers or officers, and NGO personnel.

Course Brief: In the past two decades, transport projects have played a pivotal role in economic development and poverty alleviation. However, transport strategies must now focus on confronting the complex and urgent consequences of our own success. This course seeks to answer the questions, ‘What new priorities are required to address the social, political, and environmental consequences of two decades of transport and infrastructure development?’, and ‘What strategies are required to shift transport-development resources to ensure efficient multimodal transport, improved rural linkages, and better urban transport?’.

The course takes transport strategy beyond intercity highways and focuses on resolving the new priorities: air pollution, traffic congestion, safety, efficiency, affordability, and trade. It challenges participants to prepare a localized transport strategy with an emphasis on attention to air and water pollution, alternative transport modes and themes (urban transportation, rural roads, multimodal transport), synergies across sectors, knowledge sharing, private sector participation, attention to governance and corruption issues, and building up the sector’s monitoring and evaluation efforts to align them with the new strategy.


PM05: Effective Regulation of Infrastructure Utilities (2 weeks)

Participants: Development planners, managers and administrators of public utilities, and project and program managers or officers.

Course Brief: Infrastructure is one of the cornerstones of a healthy investment climate. Infrastructure investment is often undermined by government’s use of regulation to pursue objectives unrelated to efficient service delivery. Commercial viability is the springboard of a sustainable, high-quality and efficient power industry. This is the basis of the AIT Capacity Development Course, “Effective Regulation of Infrastructure Utilities: Mastering the Characteristics, Strategies, and Tools of Effective Electric Utility Regulation.” This course seeks to provide an actionable framework for effective electricity utility regulation for the Electricity Regulatory Commissions that meets best standards of international practice.

PM06: Asian Public Sector Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Mid-level to senior officials in public services.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance the participants with the opportunity to explore fresh perspectives and new approaches of public sector administration and management in order to response effectively to the rapid changes in socio-economic and political environment. Topical content of this course covers modern concept on public sector management, public organization reform and reform process, change management, resources planning and management. The workshop on relevant issues will be conducted to enhance skills of participants in management modern public organizations.

PM07: Leadership in Public Services (2 weeks)

Participants: Administrators or officials from public, state or local government and non-profit organizations.

Course Brief: This course aims to strengthen participants’ perspectives, skills and practical strategies to become highly effective leaders in public services and deliver outcome-based and citizen-focused services. . Course content covers leadership in the modern organization, core competencies for effective leaders, leadership and organizational change.

The course integrates exposure visits to various organizations lead by leader role models and to observe organizational and change environment leaders have to face with. Participants will prepare, present and demonstrate action plan that would bring change to their organization as they play the role as leader.

PM08: Planning and Administering Good Governance (2 weeks)

Participants: Policy makers, officers from municipal corporations and local bodies, and NGO officials.

Course Brief: This training course enables participants to gain knowledge on key concepts of good governance and applications of its principles in planning and managing of public organizations. The course will cover subject content on understanding good governance,


democracy and participation, social, economic and human rights, transparency, accountability and predictability and management and administration of governance.

Study visits will be organized to local government bodies in Thailand, one-stop service units attached to government organizations, and community organization such as cooperatives and saving groups.

PM09: Governance and Anti-Corruption: The Methods and Tools Behind an Effective Corruption-Eradication Strategy (2 weeks)

Participants: Policy makers, administrators or officials from public, state or local government and non-profit organizations.

Course Brief: Corruption is among the greatest obstacles to economic and social development. The harmful effects of corruption are especially severe on the poor. What is an effective corruption-eradication strategy?

This advanced course practitioners’ explores, and seeks to help clients implement, the five key elements of an effective anticorruption strategy: Increasing Political Accountability, Strengthening Civil Society Participation, Creating a Competitive Private Sector, Implementing Effective Institutional Restraints on Power, and Improving Public Sector Management. Content includes past and current approaches to governance and anticorruption efforts; governance and corruption issues most prevalent today; linkages between politics and governance, and the effects corruption can have on decision-making and development operations; methods and tools available to measure and diagnose governance issues; and approaches used to identify and mitigate corruption risks in lending and funding operations. The course guides participants in developing strategies to reduce the corrosive impact of corruption with lasting effect.

PS01: Using Value Chain and Cluster Strategies to Improve National Competitiveness (2 weeks)


Course Brief: This course provides an overview of the Value Chain Approach, an effective tool for economic growth interventions that reduce poverty by increasing the competitiveness of an industry and the firms within that industry. It identifies the conditions in which small firms benefit from participation in the global economy, helps participants targets sectors where the poor are concentrated, and aims to improve the competitiveness of industries (or value chains) in which significant numbers of small firms participate.

This applied course in capacity building focuses on four key factors that affect competitiveness: inter-firm cooperation and coordination, relationships among firms in a value chain, the distribution of benefits, and learning and innovation. It guides participants in assessing the constraints to, and opportunities for enhancing, an industry’s competitiveness through a diagnostic framework of five elements, which form the actionable programming of this course: End Market Opportunities, Enabling Environment, Vertical Linkages, Horizontal Linkages, Supporting markets, and Firm-level Upgrading (product and process upgrading). The capstone project emphasizes firm-level upgrading for SMEs within participants’ locales.


PS02: Building, Enabling, and Leading Sustainable Microfinance Institutions and the Development of a Robust Microfinance Sector (2 weeks)

Participants: Experienced practitioners who seek to play a leadership role in defining the future of microfinance.

Course Brief: Microfinance is a rapidly changing field. It encompasses today a range of financial services (savings, credit, insurance, remittances and transfers) provided to a diverse clientele (poor landless women, retirees, urban families, rural entrepreneurs) through a variety of institutions (banks, NGOs, credit unions). This advanced practitioners’ course, therefore, takes a sector approach to microfinance-sector development. It helps clients identify the place of microfinance within the mainstream financial sector as a whole and adopt strategies and programs that ensure that microfinance fills identified gaps according to market context.

The course explores five key facets of microfinance, namely, financial transparency, enabling policy frameworks and government effectiveness in microfinance, poverty outreach, institution building, and donor effectiveness. It guides participants in focusing on two equally important microfinance-development objectives: the development and expansion of strong MFIs and the promotion of client-responsive products and services with the potential to reach more. It explores five trends likely to radically change microfinance in the immediate future and critiques the new generation of MFIs, which emphasize profit, best practices, technology, and eschew the notion that microfinance is a social business with no profit and no loss.

PS03: Promoting SME Productivity and Growth: Improving Livelihoods by Enabling Small Businesses (2 weeks)


Course Brief: Supporting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is a key factor in alleviating poverty. This advanced course in SME development is designed to help countries, provinces, and local municipalities spark sustainable growth in SMEs.

The course explores four broad themes: improving the business environment, improving SME access to finance, improving SME access to markets, business skills, and information, and creating new opportunities through innovation. The course introduces Targeted Product Innovation, and other strategies appropriate to SMEs, for crafting and testing new products and services, and then transferring those innovations to those who can deliver solutions to underserved SMEs. The course also explores the critical strategy of linkage programs to develop SMEs.


PS04: Private Sector Strategy: Foundation Course in Effective Private Sector Development (2 weeks)


Course Brief: Private sector development can be a powerful weapon in the fight against poverty. This course guides participants in designing and implementing private sector development strategies and leading successful financial and private sector reform. It seeks to prepare participants to promote private sector-led growth; solve problems that impede private sector growth; increase the contribution of the private sector to poverty reduction; improve business environments, and, ultimately, spur business, entrepreneurial, and employment opportunities for the poor in their locales.

Content covers the elements of nurturing business environments and financial sector reforms; what makes reform processes successful; empowering policy reformers and the business community to lead reform action by providing them with information, tools, and access to critical data; and developing a dialogue between reformers, experts, and advocates. The course also covers key areas of private sector development expertise, including doing comprehensive assessments of the business environment and financial services in developing countries, through surveys and benchmarking; creating the institutional foundations for effective markets; promoting open and competitive markets; supporting social safety nets with market-based instruments; and supporting privatization policy development, especially in sectors with complex market design and regulatory issues.

PS05: Leadership Development Program for Public Utility Managers in Asia (2 weeks)

Participants: Public utility managers in Asia, aspiring utility leaders, infrastructure development investors and professionals, government regulators and agencies that oversee utilities, and community leaders.

Course Brief: The Public Utility Leadership Development Program provides world- class opportunities for utility managers in Asia to develop as leaders and sharpen their leadership, change management, and performance- improvement skills outside the office. The core of the Leadership Development Program instruction covers six leadership modules that speak to the unique needs of public utility managers in Asia: Leading People, Leading Change, Producing Sustainable Results, Leading Performance Improvement, Building Coalitions, and a Capstone Module: Transforming Public Utilities in Asia.

The course features a performance-improvement leadership curriculum focused on the unique challenges of utilities in Asia, anchored in cost- recovery, good governance, and sound business practices, and designed to facilitate transformation in the Asian utility context. It is designed to empower high-potential public utility managers in Asia and their stakeholder with the skills, tools, and strategies to conceive and lead performance -improvement and transformation at their organizations.


PS06: Plan, Do, Check, and Act: Practicum in Continual Improvement Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Administrators or officials from public, state or local government, non-profit organizations and NGOs.

Course Brief: Continual Improvement Management differs materially from conventional management approaches. Continual-improvement-based approaches stress measurable objectives and targets, establish standard operating and administrative procedures, and require that performance be checked through on-going monitoring and measurement, periodic audits, and management review. This course focuses on implementing Continual Improvement Management in the Asia public or private sector context.

Most organizations have business planning processes that cover planning and implementation (the “plan” and “do” of Continual Improvement). But they fall short on monitoring progress and making management decisions based on real outcomes (the “check” and “act”.) This course guides participants in developing and executing a roadmap to implementing Continual Improvement Management. It provides a proven set of standard procedures and steps to support systematic, consistent, continual-improvement in core functional areas.


IT01: Network Security (3 weeks)

Participants: Personnel responsible for designing or implementing security solutions for their networks, specifically network engineers and managers, security administrators, IS and data center managers, systems administrators, security analysts, and individuals seeking CompTIA Security+ Certification.

Course Brief: This course is designed to give the foundation security knowledge to protect network from attack, especially from hackers and reduce the chance of security breaches. The course content covers key security concepts with Cisco & Microsoft curriculum modules, network configuration: use of port scanners, Telnet, TFTP, FTP, protection against hackers, design security plans: security plans to protect network access points and services, testing classroom network’s security and secure a host, repairing holes reported by vulnerability detection techniques, transactions through internet: use of certificates and public-key cryptography for encrypting information; security policies, policies and troubleshooting: piecing together network and security policy design in an intensive, hands-on environment; analyzing the trade-offs between performance and security; translating policy requirements into a technical security solution.

IT02: Web Page Development and Deployment (2 weeks)

Participants: IT officers, web designers and developers, webmasters, and individuals interested in building their own web pages.

Course Brief: This course improves participants’ skills in designing, building and deploying web pages on the internet/Intranet. The course covers introduction to digital image, basics of image processing, graphics and animation tools: image resolution, composition, retouching and setting, use of animation tools; web page design: concepts on HTML, fundamentals of web design, application of open source software for web design; web page development: use of web tools and HTML coding, web scripting, VB script programming model and syntax, built-in objects, functions, deployment of web page, setting up and managing web servers, security on web servers, web applications deployment.

IT03: Design and Development of Internet/Intranet Accessible Information System using MS SQL Server (4 weeks)

Participants: Database administrators, designers, developers and officers, and IT practitioners.

Course Brief: The course is designed to enable participants to design and develop an information system on a client/server platform under Microsoft Windows and SQL Server/MSDE that supports multi-user access to a database through Intranet/internet. Participants learn how to design and develop a client/server database using MS SQL server and MS Access. They also learn to use various software tools, such as HTML and ASP, to access databases through the internet. As part of the course, the participants are guided to develop a prototype HRMIS accessible through a local area network and the internet/intranet.

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IT04: Linux Essentials and Server Administration (2 weeks)

Participants: End users, technical professionals, IT support staff, and administrators of Linux systems.

Course Brief: This course is designed to provide the participants with knowledge/skills to run and administer Linux as a network operating system and secure it. The course stresses intensive hands-on sessions using graphical and command-line interface to: manage and control of access to Linux resources; manage jobs and process; use shell features and scripts to automate tasks; administer/tune a Linux server system. Course contents include Linux Essentials: managing files and directories, access control to Linux resources, processing Text Files and Streams, jobs and processes, exploring and programming Shell Scripts, Linux Server Administration: installing and updating Software, configuring IP Network, Network and Application Server Services, supporting print file services and the Linux Kernel Securing Linux System.

IT05: Design and Development of Instructional Material Using Desktop, Web and Multimedia Tools (3 weeks)

Participants: IT officers, instructional designers, educational technologists, course developers, and teachers who want to develop instructional materials.

Course Brief: The course aims to enable the participants to develop computer based instructional materials using desktop, web and multimedia facilities and to apply modern ICT software and hardware tools; various techniques in capturing multimedia contents; developing printed materials, multimedia presentations, computer graphic design, web contents materials, and various portable media. Content of this course covers advanced presentations development, desktop digital imaging, desktop publishing, web tools and techniques and multimedia tools and techniques.

IT06: Web-based Database Applications Development Using MySQL and PHP (4 weeks)

Participants: IT professionals, IT/support officers, administrative support officers, systems analyst, developers, planners, application designers, programmers and web designers.

Course Brief: The course aims to enable participants to learn various techniques on design and develop an information system that supports multi-user access through both intranet and internet. Course content covers Intranet/internet Technology, database design, PHP coding, MySQL Database Administration: creating a database and specifying database resource; assigning access and resource privileges; backup/restore procedures; stored procedures; triggers; indexes; database import/export procedures from/to other databases.


IT07: Survey Data Organization and Analysis Using Statistical Application Software (4 weeks)

Participants: Officers involved in survey and census data organization and analysis, particularly those employed at national statistics offices, IT practitioners engaged in processing survey and census data.

Course Brief: The course is designed to enable the participants to properly organize survey or census data, perform validation and consistency checks, and process the data to produce the desired statistical outputs, using mainly the current available statistics. Participants learn to organize data files, into which survey data are encoded, validated, checked for consistency, exported to a database or statistical software and processed to generate the desired statistical output. The course includes a mini-project, in which participants are asked to organize and process their own data, the real data brought by them.

IT08: PC Configuration & Troubleshooting (2 weeks)

Participants: Personnel involved in the daily operation, maintenance and support of PC hardware and software, end-users, IT support officers/staffs.

Course Brief: This course aims to provide participants with skills and capability to support and maintain PC hardware and software, learn to secure and protect data, configure and troubleshoot basic PC networking components. The course focus on exploring PC parts: key hardware components; PC design and basic software components, troubleshooting strategy for PC, exploring basic PC components, handling memory and secondary storage, configuring I/O devices, handling printer and ports, solving system software problems, data recovery, understanding PC networking, detecting and preventing viruses and handling spy ware.

IT09: Implementing & Troubleshooting Wireless Networks (2 weeks)

Participants: Technical personnel involved in evaluating, planning, designing, implementing and supporting wireless networks.

Course Brief: The course aims to provide participants with skills and capability to install, configure, troubleshoot and optimize wireless networks. This course provides contents on wireless fundamentals, troubleshooting and optimizing wireless networks, planning and deploying large-scale wireless networks, protecting data transmission and restricting access to authorized users.

IT10: Office Applications, Web and Multimedia Tools (3 weeks)

Participants: IT officers, personnel from government agencies, private companies.

Course Brief: The course is designed to enable participants to develop and use of various ICT tools. The course covers the development and use of various ICT tools, MS Office, internet Services, Web development tools and multimedia tools such as desktop digital imaging; computer graphic tools; animation tools; analog/digital video facilities; capture; file conversion: analog digital; editing video file; embedding sound and texts; production of multimedia files on CD.


IT11: Installation and Administration of Windows 2003 Server (2 weeks)

Participants: IT officers, system administrator, support personnel.

Course Brief: To enable participants to administer and manage windows server, networking and system applications. Course content covers features of Windows Operating System and Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2003 Server Installation Procedure, configuration of hardware devices and drivers, Network Infrastructure, configuration of windows network services, configuration of LAN; WAN, understanding and using TCP/IP, installing and using active directory, installing and configuring DNS, installing and configuring DHCP, administering shared folders, managing data storage, backup and recovery, administering network printers, creation and administration of Users and User Groups System performance monitoring and optimization and configuring and administering Web server (IIS) .

IT12: Oracle Database Development and Administration (3 weeks)

Participants: IT support officers, administrative support officers, system analysts, database administrators, database developers, planners and application designers.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance the knowledge and skills of the participants in designing, developing, administering and maintaining an information system using Oracle. The course enables the participants to learn a few topics on advanced application of Oracle. Participants learn database application development; database centric web application, Oracle administrative tools and procedures, database administration, database performance tuning, real application clusters, implement streams. Selected applications are discussed and demonstrated. Learning materials with examples and exercises are provided.

IT13: ICT for International Construction Projects (3 weeks)

Participants: Government officers in charge of international construction projects; engineers, contractors, consultants, managers and construction professionals involved in international construction projects.

Course Brief: This course is designed to enable participants to enhance their knowledge and understanding of the issues related to international construction projects, contract administration and on the relevant use of ICT in construction projects. The contents cover overview of international construction projects, project management for international construction projects, basis of international construction contracts, FIDIC conditions of contract, procurement management, preparation works for tender and contract, practice and theory of schedule control, practice of negotiation of claim/dispute and exposure visits to different construction sites such as highway engineering, water resources engineering projects and high-rise building construction projects.


IT14: ICT and Gender Development (2 weeks)

Participants: Project managers and officers, development officers, administrators, social workers, community leaders and NGO personnel.

Course Brief: To enhance perspectives of government officials and, NGO staff to undertake the task of facilitating and leading the process of mainstreaming gender in development, policy formulation and institution building using ICT. The course content covers ICTs and gender development, ICT tools, technology and empowerment of women and exposure visits to various GO and NGOs agencies of possibilities for developing skills for women in Thailand.

IT15: Municipality Administrative System using Application of ICT

Participants: Government officers in charge of local government projects; engineers, consultants, managers, municipality officers.

Course Brief: This course is designed to provide participants with best practices and innovative learning for urban local government emphasizing on the city corporations and municipalities. The focus will be on innovations and best practices in tax assessment, tax collection, planning and implementation of information system. Participants are encouraged to participate actively in the course.

IT16: Information Technology Audit (3 weeks)

Participants: IT Auditors and IT professionals involved in audit, finance and audit related information security management.

Course Brief: The course will cover audit standards, audit processes, IT infrastructure and platform, tools and techniques for IT audit, managing IT audit and disaster recovery.

The course aims in providing necessary skills in IT audit, preparing the participants to build their capability in managing IT audit needs, and developing knowledge in implementing IT audit in an organization.

IT17: IT Service Management: Best Practices (2 weeks)

Participants: IT staff, managers and executives who are responsible for the delivery IT services in an organization

Course Brief: The number of emerging platforms and technologies are ever increasing to cope with the need of the clients. IT Service Management is facing more competitive challenges in delivering quality services. IT services cannot compete until it manages, organizes and operates timely, efficiently and conforms to the need of the market.


IT18: Essentials of RFID Technology (1 week)

Participants: IT managers, technical professionals, software designer, software engineers and IT practitioners.

Course Brief: This course is designed to provide the participants with broader understanding of the people, process and technology for managing and implementing RFID technologies. The course aims in providing a clear understanding of the RFID software development process, applications, manage and maintain an RFID software project. The course stresses on the evaluating the functionalities of RFID software and analyze the issues of integrating RFID hardware in their relevant new and existing applications.

IT19: RFID Software Integration (2 weeks)

Participants: Software developer, professionals involved in RFID software design and development, IT managers and programmers.

Course Brief: Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) is becoming more widespread as a technology enabler in different industries for numerous applications. The demand for the use of RFID in automobile industry to hospital is spreading with the innovation of new technologies. The demand for RFID in the operation and enhancing efficiencies is increasing at a rapid pace. The market demand for professionals in the field of RFID is increasing to cope with the need.

This two-week course will aim to deliver the techniques and skills for professionals to develop, design, integrate and implement RFID software. The course will comprise of class lecture, interactive demonstrations, hands-on sessions and interactions with the experts to provide in-depth understanding of RFID software.

IT20: Introduction to Cloud Computing (1 week)

Participants: Database administrators, developers, system analyst, and system administrators who are interested in learning how to install, configure, or maintain virtual servers, applications, databases in a cloud-computing environment.

Course Brief: Training course provides an introduction of cloud computing, cloud architecture, storage management and the virtualization technologies that enable the implementation of data applications in a cloud-computing environment. The course also describes the types of cloud service development and tools, and also things to be considered before migrating to the Clouds.


IT21: Managing IT Projects (2 weeks)

Participants: Project manager, project administrators, business process analysts, IT managers and directors, team leaders, system analysts.

Course Brief: Managing IT Projects requires specific skills to be developed so as to optimize the available resources of an institution for achieving the desired results. In most of the organizations use IT as a strategy for business development. For effective operation, combined business transformation (BT) and IT projects is applied to streamline the activities and produce sustainable results.

The participants will acquire knowledge on the project management processes, business

transformation and the different stages of project life cycle, gain understanding on project risk management, project quality management, develop skills for analyzing, designing and implementing a project efficiently and successfully.


IM01: Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Natural Resources Management (3 weeks)

Participants: Planners, managers applying remote sensing and GIS tools in planning and managing natural resources; technical professionals involved in the field of remote sensing and GIS.

Course Brief: This course aims to enable the participants to apply remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) tools and techniques needed in managing and applying in natural resources and forestry. The participants enhance their knowledge of geometric rectification and polynomial rectification, mapping techniques, change detection and GIS. The course is a combination of lectures and laboratory sessions with field visits to selected organizations applying RS and GIS, and towards the end, the participants prepare a report based on lessons learned from the sessions.

The course covers the following modules: fundamentals and remote sensing data, Geo-referencing of satellite data, mapping, change detection, and Geographic Information Systems Development. The course includes exposure visits to selected organizations applying Remote Sensing/GIS tools to observe projects in progress.

IM02: Implementing Selective ERP Applications and Management (2 weeks)

Participants: ERP implementation team member, financial and human resources manager engaged in private sector, and NGOs.

Course Brief: The course is designed to provide participants with knowledge of ERP implementation in important selective areas (finance and human resource) through the use of a case study and hands-on experience.

Course content covers mapping organizational functions to ERP, integrity considerations with other ERP applications, user interfaces, implementing selective financial related applications and implementing HR applications.

IM03: Information Technology Applications in Project Management (3 weeks)

Participants: Project managers, IT practitioners, development officers, managers from government, private organizations and NGOs.

Course Brief: This training course aims to facilitate the participants the different techniques in managing projects and to enhance the project management skills. The participants are exposed to the various concepts and applications for managing projects by using information technology.

Course content covers ICT tools and techniques used in planning and implementation of projects involving large budgets and requiring a large number of human resources with a broad array of physical resources. It addresses the technical skills encompassing

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project scope, time management, cost management, project integration management, risk management, human resource management, project quality management, management information system, and communication management. The course includes exposure visits to selected organizations in Thailand.

IM04: E-Commerce and E-Services: Strategies and Implementation (3 weeks)

Participants: E-commerce/e-services management and implementation team members, IT professionals and business entities involved in e-business.

Course Brief: The course aims to provide participants with knowledge to conduct business or to provide services on-line and how to manage the technological issues associated with constructing an electronic-commerce/services web site.

Course content includes understanding e-commerce/e-services, Internet marketing, client relations, tools for developing e-commerce/e-services, implementing e-commerce/e-services, e-payment and infrastructure support.

IM05: Educational Research, Evaluation and Analysis Using Information Technology (3 weeks)

Participants: Teachers, educational administrators, educational officers, teacher trainers, educational researchers, academics involved in research evaluation and analysis.

Course Brief: The course is designed to enable participants to develop skills for educational research, evaluation and analysis by applying computer software as tools and techniques. Participants are able to use the concepts and methods relevant for educational research, evaluation and analysis. The course content covers fundamentals of educational evaluation, development of research problem, research design and methodology, computer application in educational research and analysis of questionnaire, evaluation plan and framework.

IM06: IT Applications in Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Managers, administrators, management and administrative officers.

Course Brief: This course aims to enable the participants to apply the ICT tools and techniques needed in planning, scheduling, controlling and implementing management and administrative functions. The course addresses a broad array of information technology tools and techniques useful for management and administrative functions. This course covers the applications commonly needed by managers and administrators in both the public and private sectors. The course has been divided into modules covering planning, scheduling, managerial finance, development management, strategic management, exposure visits to selected organizations and preparation of action plan.


IM07: ICT for Poverty Reduction and Rural Development Planning (3 weeks)

Participants: Officers engaged in local development planning and poverty alleviation in rural areas, planners, rural development managers, senior officers from governmental organizations, NGOs.

Course Brief: This course focuses on the problem of the widening digital gap between rural and urban areas in addressing the issue of poverty alleviation in rural communities. It also aims to enhance the participants’ technical knowledge and skills on strategies and approaches in rural development planning and management using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in order to build the capacity and quality of rural life.

Course content covers subject area on ICT and poverty reduction, development planning and policies, application of GIS in rural development planning and ICT for development. It also includes exposure visits to observe local planning practices and rural development projects using ICT as tools for poverty reduction activities; visits to organizations and agencies for a briefing on their poverty reduction projects.

IM08: Construction Management using ICT (3 weeks)

Participants: Managers, engineers, officers involved in construction projects.

Course Brief: This course aims to facilitate the participants with Construction Management tools and techniques for managing construction projects for planning, coordinating, implementing, supervising and monitoring different scale construction projects. This would allow the engineers to enhance their skills in scheduling, planning resources, monitoring the project, ensuring safety measures, controlling quality with improved project communication. Participants are exposed to the various concepts, applications, case studies, exposure visits in construction sites and application of IT skills and techniques for construction management.

Course content includes planning, managing and implementation of construction projects using IT as tools for different scale of projects. The course is divided into the following key subject contents: construction contract, project planning, construction scheduling techniques, estimating budgeting and cost control, project resource planning, construction safety and health, construction quality control, FIDIC conditions of contract and exposure visits to different construction sites.

IM09: Effective Implementation of e-Governance (3 weeks)

Participants: Professionals and practitioners implementing Electronic Governance and Public Sector Reform initiatives, professionals in public utility service and public administration, administrators, Chief Information Officers, decision-makers, researchers, educators.

Course Brief: This course is designed to enhance the participants’ knowledge and understanding of Electronic Governance and to develop human capacity in facing its challenges. It emphasizes how Information and Communication Technology can be planned, designed, managed and employed in the government, industry and academic sector. It includes case studies and exposure visits to evaluate and see how different sectors implement e-Governance in providing services that achieves transparency and efficiency.


IM10: Information Systems Development and Management (3 weeks)

Participants: IT professionals, IT support officers, information systems officers, systems analyst, and administrative support officers.

Course Brief: The course is designed to enable the participants to develop an information system using a well-structured approach to ensure the effective deployment of information technology in organizations.

Course content includes introduction to information systems development, managing information systems projects, identifying and selecting systems development projects, requirements analysis, modeling and “CASE Tools”, system analysis and design and information systems security and control. The course includes case studies and exposure visits to relevant organization and projects.

IM11: Effective Management Skills Development using ICT (3 weeks)

Participants: Managers, decision makers, administrators, information systems officers, IT professionals

Course Brief: The course is designed to provide the best practices and innovative learning for effective management skills development with application of information tools and techniques.

Course content includes communication and negotiation skills, effective implementation of e-governance, effective execution, tools for project planning, management information systems, performance management and effective presentation skills.

IM12: Office/General Management Skills using IT Applications (2 weeks)

Participants: Office managers, administrators, information systems officers working in private or public sector and NGOs.

Course Brief: The course aims to provide with the best practices and innovative learning for developing effective skills in office/general management applying information tools and techniques.

Course content includes application software tools for office management, effective implementation of e-Governance, tools for project planning, performance management and communication and negotiation skills.

IM13: Water Resources Management using IT Applications (2 weeks)

Participants: Engineers, technologists, consultants and related professionals involved in water resources management in the public and private sectors.

Course Brief: The course aims to provide with the best practices for water management issues stressing on command area development with a focus on farmer-led irrigation system management.


Course content covers modernization of irrigation system management, irrigation benchmarking, water delivery system – operation perspectives, water productivity assessment and improvement, institutional framework for improved irrigation management, participatory and user centered management irrigation economics, financial analysis of irrigation projects using IT application, best practices of monitoring and evaluation of irrigation projects and exposure visits to irrigation projects in Thailand for system management, physical and institutional aspects.

IM14: ICT in Public Administration and Civil Service Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Government officials, project officials, and NGO workers.

Course Brief: This course is designed to provide the participants with exposure to the best practices in public administration capacity building for civil service reform and sustainable development.

The content covers leadership for sustainability, central and local governance, government policies on decentralization, strategies for implementation of decentralized systems, institutional learning, e-governance, impact of administrative reforms and related issues, challenges to successful implementation of public administration capacity building initiatives, gender role in public sector and role of ICT

IM15: Knowledge Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Managers, decision makers, consultants, IT professionals in the public, corporate or in NGOs.

Course Brief: The course aims to develop an understanding on knowledge management and be prepared to apply the concepts on knowledge management. This course focuses on Knowledge Management – emerging perspectives, Knowledge Management transfer strategies, Knowledge Management technology, content management, integration session and exposure visits.

IM16: Multimedia Journalism (2 weeks)

Participants: Journalists, developers of web journalism, web designer.

Course Brief: This course aims to provide the skills for applying relevant IT tools in print journalism and on-line journalism. The course focuses on the use of IT tool for developing print and on-line materials. The content includes concepts on digital image processing, graphics and animation tools, video editing, web design fundamentals, design and deployment of web page.


IM17: E‐ Procurement (2 weeks)

Participants: Procurement managers, public sector administrators involved in procurement, accountants and financial officers involved in cost control of public procurement.

Course Brief: This course will demonstrate how to use ICT as an enabler to optimize procurement performance, and how to transfer from the paper-based procurement processes and management to electronic processes. It will describe the development of appropriate and sustainable e-procurement strategies in a phased approach.

IM18: IT Governance (2 weeks)

Participants: IT administrators, IT managers, IT officers, consultants and IT professionals in any sector.

Course Brief: The business world in IT has to be proactive with the emerging technologies and has to cope with the rate of changes. IT being an enabler, has to face more challenges in the processes, management, best practices for delivering the right technology to the right place in right time.

This two weeks course is designed for professionals of IT and related fields to gain understanding on the best practices, governance and service management in IT.


EG01: Introduction to the Micro–Hydro Power (1 week)

Participants: Participants perform preliminary system sizing for mechanical and electrical power generation of 50-watt to 100-kilowatt capacities.

Course Brief: This workshop will cover design considerations as they apply to both low and high head micro-hydro systems. The focus will be on core concepts that may be applied to a wide range of hydro applications.

EG02: Introduction to Renewable Energy (1 week)

Participants: The courses are aimed at those in the business, non-profit, public and academic sectors who wish to get a comprehensive introduction to renewable energy technologies, as well as those wishing to install renewable energy systems in both urban and rural settings.

Course Brief: This course is an overview of renewable energy technology and outlines the basic principles of solar electricity, solar water heating, small-scale wind power, micro hydro-power, bio-energy, heat pumps and their applications for homes, businesses and farms.

EG03: Bridge Design and Construction using ICT (3 weeks)

Participants: Civil engineers, construction engineers and construction managers.

Course Brief: This course aims to facilitate the participants with bridge design and construction management tools and techniques. The course will focus mainly on bridge design, specifically on suspension bridge and the best practices of bridge design, construction, environmental impact and financial viability of projects. There would be field visits to bridge construction projects. This would allow the engineers to enhance their skills in scheduling, planning resources, ensuring quality, prevailing international practices of construction projects, environmental impact on engineering construction projects, gain understanding on cost and time management and determining the financial viability of projects.

EG04: Construction Management (3 weeks)

Participants: Managers of private and public construction projects, civil engineers, construction planners and supervisors.

Course Brief: This course aims to enhance the managerial and technical skills of participants responsible for planning, managing and supervising small and medium scale construction projects for more efficient, effective and high standard construction works.

Course content covers construction planning, construction quality control and construction administration. This course presents case studies on construction planning

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and scheduling of selected infrastructure projects undertaken by public and private agencies. Participants carry out project works on the CPM schedule of small construction project using manual analysis and comparison to that produced by computer package. It also includes field visits to construction sites of infrastructure development projects such as irrigation and water resource structures, roads and highways, and tall buildings so that participants can observe and discuss with project engineers on issues such as construction techniques and construction project management.

EG05: Construction Management and Quality Control for Road Works (2.5 weeks)

Participants: Middle level rural road/road network planners, senior/mid level civil engineers and road engineer, road development project technical staff.

Course Brief: This course is designed to enhance managerial and technical skills of the participants responsible for planning, managing and supervising road construction projects for more efficient, effective and high standard road construction works. It also focuses on up-to-date knowledge of quality standard and quality control issues of construction property as well as work processes in all construction phases that lead to better quality of road works.

Course content includes quality assurance in road works, contract management and inspection procedures, testing of construction materials such as concrete works, concrete aggregates, soil gradation, density and compaction, field compaction/density of subgrade, and asphalt material. The exposure visit and on-site study are conducted to road construction sites with different level of development from excavation, forming embankment, compaction, pavement construction, etc., to observe the work processes and QC at each stage. Observe the construction equipment being used in construction, equipment of the field laboratory for quality evaluation, field density sampling and testing, asphalt pavement construction, etc.

EG06: Irrigation System Management (3 weeks)

Participants: Irrigation engineers, civil engineers and agriculturalists.

Course Brief: This course enables participants to evaluate existing field conditions of irrigation systems with the view to improve its operation and management efficiency, particularly under multiple-cropping system. The course includes knowledge on organizational, socio-economic and farmer participation aspects of irrigation management. The course covers contents on integrated irrigation system management, crop response to irrigation water, soil and land capability classification, and design of on-farm water distribution system, water allocation scheduling and monitoring program, system capability evaluation and maintenance of irrigation schemes. Technical field visits are organized to various irrigation projects in Thailand to observe and exchange experiences on management of irrigation water, evaluation of system capacity, operation and maintenance of headworks and canals, on-farm water delivery and management and farmers’ participation in irrigation water management. Field practicum at the actual project site is organized to enhance skills of participants on technical sessions.


EG07: Small Scale Water Resources Rehabilitation and Management (3 weeks)

Participants: Middle to senior level water resource and irrigation engineers, project directors/planners and staff of water resources/irrigation development projects.

Course Brief: This course is designed to enhance participants’ ability to identify the cause of poor performance in irrigation projects, to reestablish design criteria for rehabilitation and improvement, and to improve irrigation management capability through proper water allocation planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation techniques as well as farmer participation and inter-government interaction.

Course content covers planning and design for rehabilitation, irrigation system modernization and improvement, design of irrigation drainage and system, water management and project operation, budgeting and execution of maintenance program, and project monitoring and evaluation. This course includes case studies and exposure visit to irrigation projects being considered for rehabilitation to make critical analysis for the cause of poor performance and possible remedial measures.

EG08: Monitoring and Evaluation of Rural Infrastructure Development Projects (2 weeks)

Participants: Middle level development planners, senior/mid level civil engineers, administrators, project managers/evaluators, socio-economists, and NGO and social workers.

Course Brief: This course aims to improve participants’ technical knowledge and skills in designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems for rural infrastructure projects such as rural road, water resources and agricultural development projects. The course covers principles and concepts of project monitoring and evaluation, results-based approach in project/program evaluation, indicators and measurement tools and techniques for evaluation, development of monitoring and evaluation framework and target, priority setting.

The course includes case studies and exposure visits to various types and scales of rural infrastructure projects such as rural road development, small-scale irrigation development project and rural water supply project. Participants take field notes regarding project development and management for group discussions.

EG09: Rural Road Development and Maintenance Management (3 weeks)

Participants: Middle to senior level road engineers, technical field supervisors, project managers.

Course Brief: This course is designed to upgrade knowledge and skills of participants in planning, design, construction and maintenance management of road networks in rural areas. It provides opportunity to widen perspectives of participants on benefits of well-constructed and maintained roads, and sufficient road network to accelerate growth of rural community and to support poverty reduction projects/programs.

Course content includes rural roads planning and design, construction techniques and management, maintenance techniques and management, and technical visit and on-site study to observe various types of activities on rural road construction including construction scheduling and control, quality control, use of construction equipment, labor-based construction and maintenance of roads, and observation of road repair, rehabilitation and reconstruction methods.


SV01: Agricultural Extension Practices (2 weeks)

Participants: Agricultural extension officers, senior agricultural officials and policy makers.

Course Brief: The program provides opportunity for participants to visit, observe and make critical analysis on the effectiveness, success and shortcoming of the methods being used by the Thai government agencies and multi-national private agro-industry companies in transferring the technologies to farmers.

Participants visit leading farms to observe and discuss with farmers their farming practices and management; meet extension officers and farmers to discuss approaches used by Thai government agencies; visit and observe technology transfer centers and new extension approaches; learn strategic approaches used by multi-national agro-industry companies in transferring advanced production technology to farmers; and meet international participants and local counterparts to discuss and share experiences from their respective countries.

SV02: Rural Agribusiness Development and Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Senior agricultural officers, agricultural extension officials and policy makers, rural development officers.

Course Brief: This program exposes participants to various types of agribusiness that can be developed in rural areas and makes a critical analysis of their development and management, thus enabling participants to gain a wider perspective for initiating similar programs in their own countries.

Participants learn the strategic approaches used by the Thai government to initiate and promote small-scale agribusiness; visit and observe central markets and management systems for various agricultural commodities; visit and observe various types of small-scale agribusiness managed by individuals or groups of farmers; meet and discuss with government officials, traders, and farmers to discuss and exchange views on agribusinesses; and meet and exchange experiences on agribusiness development and management with international participants.

SV03: Appropriate and Innovative Farm Machinery (2 weeks)

Participants: Agricultural engineers, agricultural and extension officers and researchers.

Course Brief: This program provides opportunity for the participants to visit, observe and make critical analysis on the effectiveness of locally innovated farm machinery being developed or used by farmers; observe the prototypes being tested in laboratory or in the field by educational institutions and research centers.

Participants visit Thai educational institutions and research centers responsible for research, development, and testing of farm machinery; meet with engineers, researchers



and academics to discuss and exchange experiences on the design and development of various types of land preparation, crop maintenance, harvesting and post harvesting equipment; visit leading farms to meet farmers and discuss on farm mechanization practices and management problems; understand maintenance requirements of locally developed machinery; and observe the operation of the machinery.

SV04: Post harvest Technology (2 weeks)

Participants: Agricultural engineers, post-harvest technologists agricultural and extension officers and researchers.

Course Brief: This program provides participants with information about recent developments and current trends in post-harvest technology and practices.

Participants visit Thai educational institutions and research centers engaged in research and testing of post-harvest management techniques and technologies for small and medium-sized farm holders; meet with engineers, researchers and academicians to discuss and exchange experiences on current research and development on post-harvest technology; visit leading farms to meet farmers and discuss with them their post-harvest management practices and related problems and costs; visit private companies to observe the post-harvest management for local and export markets; and meet international participants and local counterparts to discuss and share experiences from their respective countries.

SV05: Integrated Coastal Zone Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Natural resources, environmental, agricultural, forestry, fishery and tourism planners and managers, regional and rural development planners and officers, and marine scientists and biologists.

Course Brief: This program exposes participants to the concept and practice of integrated coastal zone management, balancing environmental and development requirements. The course offers an overview of integrated coastal zone development planning and management; coastal ecosystem and bio-diversity; environmental impact of coastal zone development; and socio-economic aspects of coastal area development. Participants visit, observe and comment on various types of projects aimed at coastal zone development or utilizing coastal zone resources, both living and nonliving; and learn strategic approaches and practices used in Thailand for the development and management of the coastal zones.

SV06: Sustainable Natural Resources and Environment Management and Planning (2 weeks)

Participants: Natural resources development planners and managers, environmental, rural development planners, forest officers, local government officers, community leaders.

Course Brief: This program is intended to enhance participants’ knowledge of appropriate policy and planning frameworks for environmental protection and natural resources conservation. It provides exposure to the organizational structure, roles and responsibilities of key


government agencies as well as possible environment management initiatives and regulatory measures for sustainable environment management.

Participants visit Thai government organizations responsible for natural resources and environment policy and planning, environment quality promotion, pollution control; meet with local government officers and communities representatives to discuss and exchange experiences and management practices, community-based protected area management; visit environmental study, research and development projects; visit wastewater and international participants and local counterparts to discuss and share experiences from their respective countries.

SV07: Environmental Conflict Management and Resolution (2 weeks)

Participants: Environmentalists from public and private organizations, NGO personnel, social workers, community leaders.

Course Brief: This program gives participants insights into conflict resolution and mediation and shares practical experience on effective remedial measures to solve environment problems. Participants visit Thai government organizations responsible for conflict management and resolution training courses; meet with environment consultants and mediators to discuss and exchange experiences on conflict resolution for the development projects; and visit affected communities both successful and unsuccessful cases to meet community leaders and local people and discuss with them their management practices.

SV08: Rural Poverty Reduction (2 weeks)


Course Brief: This exposure visit program aims to introduce participants to new trends and practices in rural poverty reduction. The program content includes seminars on latest development, models and strategies on rural poverty reduction. It highlights exposure visits to various development agencies and projects working on rural poverty reduction such as rural/regional development planning, rural and cottage industry development, income generation, gender development, savings, loan and small business development.

SV09: Urban Poverty Reduction (2 weeks)

Participants: Urban planners and administrators, municipality and city development officials, community development officers, social workers, community leaders and NGO personnel.

Course Brief: This program aims to expose participants with learning opportunity on principles, strategies and practices on urban poverty reduction. The program content covers seminars on latest development, model and strategies on urban poverty reduction. It highlights exposure visits to various types of urban poverty reduction projects such as income generation, urban employment, skills training, micro-credit and marketing assistance, quality of life development, health and sanitation, slum upgrading, housing for low-income group, and capacity building for urban communities.


SV10: Micro-enterprises Development for Rural/Local Products (2 weeks)

Participants: Project managers and officers, development or extension officers, administrators, social workers, community leaders and NGO personnel.

Course Brief: This program aims to expose participants with learning opportunity on local economic development through small and medium scaled enterprises development. The program covers seminars on best practices of SME movements in Asia and cluster development principle. It highlights exposure visits to development agencies and projects working on various types and approaches of SMEs development such as on-farm and non-farm products, value chains development, agribusiness, food, handicraft and herbal productions, agro/rural/community tourism, ICTs and e-commerce.

SV11: Local/Community-based Primary Health Care Management (2 weeks)

Participants: Development officers, social workers, primary health care planners/administrators, policy makers, NGO personnel and other officials whose work related to primary health care, community development and social services.

Course Brief: This program aims to expose participants with learning opportunity on primary health care and health management at local/community levels. The program covers seminars on principles and practices of local/community based primary health care management, strategies and service delivery. It highlights exposure visits to development agencies and projects working on local/community based primary health care, procedures of health care services, planning for coverage areas and referral system, health insurance for the poor, social security, training for health volunteers.

SV12: Entrepreneurial Skills Development for Gender Empowerment (2 weeks)


Course Brief: This exposure visit program aims to expose participants with learning opportunity on process and mechanism of entrepreneurial skill development for gender. The program covers seminars on latest trends in gender mainstreaming and strategic approaches on skills development and training. It highlights exposure visits to development agencies and projects working on gender development at central and local levels, skills training, employment, micro-credit, capacity development and networking for women entrepreneurs.

SV13: Developing Community Sustainable Livelihoods (2 weeks)


Course Brief: This program aims to expose participants with learning opportunity on grass root development approaches on sustainable livelihoods. The program covers seminars on key issues of sustainable livelihoods, livelihoods assessment and quality of life indicators. It highlights exposure visits to development agencies and projects working on livelihoods development such as community master plan, livable communities,


indigenous knowledge for local economic growth, skills training, community environmental management, community enterprise and re-managing community through the “Village that Learns” Model.

SV14: Community-based Sustainable Livelihoods in Coastal Area (2 weeks)


Course Brief: This program aims to expose participants with learning opportunity on latest development on sustainable livelihoods practices in coastal area. The program covers seminars on integrated coastal zone management, community participatory planning and implementation. It highlights exposure visits to development agencies and projects working on research and study on coastal area development, technology transfer, community-based co-management and conservation, income generation, value-added development activities, livelihoods development and institutional capacity building for fishing communities.

SV15: Community-based Sustainable Livelihoods in Uplands and Cross-border Area (2 weeks)


Course Brief: This program aims to expose participants with learning opportunity on sustainable livelihoods practices in upland and cross-border area. The program covers seminars on integrated watershed management, community participatory planning and implementation. It highlights exposure visits to development agencies and projects working on integrated watershed development, opium eradication and rehabilitation, highland agricultural development, value-added processes for highland crops and off-farm products, cross-border trade, income generation activities and community agro-forestry.

SV16: Development of Small and Medium Sized Tourism Enterprises (2 weeks)


Course Brief: This program aims to expose participants with learning opportunity on small and medium-sized entrepreneur (SME) development in tourism for poverty reduction and local economic growth. The program covers seminars on small and medium-sized tourism enterprises development. It highlights visits to development agencies and projects working on credit operations and incentives for SME initiatives, public private partnerships, capacity development for small and medium entrepreneurs including guesthouses, small tour operators, restaurants and Internet cafes, and souvenir producers and outlets.


SV17: Eco-Tourism and Environmental Conservation (2 weeks)


Course Brief: This program aims to expose participants with learning opportunity on latest trends and practices in eco-tourism for local income generation and natural conservation. The program covers seminars on development and management of eco-tourism products and services. It highlights on exposure visits to agencies and projects initiated by GO, NGO and private sector on coastal and marine eco-tourism, mountainous tourism, environmental management in tourist areas, eco-lodges and eco-trails, safety and security for visitors and capacity building for local organization and community for environmental management and tourism.

SV18: Rural and Community Destination Management (2 weeks)


Course Brief: This program aims to expose participants with learning opportunity on latest trends and practices in developing pro-poor rural/ community tourism. The program covers seminars on planning and management of rural/community tourism destination and special interest of rural travelers. It highlights exposure visits to agencies and projects initiated by GO, NGO and private sector on management of rural tourism products and services, agro-tourism, home stay, tourism infrastructure and facilities development, capacity building and HRD for local organizations and communities.

SV19: Public-Private Partnership (1 week)

Participants: Officers, managers, decision makers and administrators in both the public or private organizations, consultants or NGOs.

Course Brief: The program aims to provide with best practices for Public Private Partnerships initiated and implemented in host countries. The participants visit to a PPP infrastructure project; PPP health sector project; water supply and waste water treatment; urban environment management projects. Participants also share experiences on negotiation Skills and management development for PPP contract.

SV20: Construction Management Practices (2 weeks)

Participants: Project engineers and managers, construction planners and supervisors.

Course Brief: The program aims to broaden perspectives of the participants who are responsible for planning and management of construction projects, the latest construction technologies, equipment, and management techniques being used in construction industry.

Participants visit and observe various infrastructure (construction) projects; meet and exchange experiences with project engineers and managers on various aspects of construction techniques and management practices; visit construction sites of multi-billion dollar projects to observe latest technologies being used in construction


industries; discuss and exchange experiences with fellow participants from other countries in the region.

SV21: Health Care Management Information System (1 week)

Participants: Health officers and professional involved in public heath.

Course Brief: This exposure visit program aims to enhance participants’ knowledge through exposure to best practices in management information systems and government fiscal management information systems, ICT tools for public health activities, usage of MIS for hospital management and activities and visit public/private hospitals and ministry of public health, and primary health care centers.


Customized Courses at AIT ExtensionAIT Extension customizes courses at the request of international organizations, national governments, and other institutions. In 2009, the following courses were customized for the needs of specific clients:

Advanced Strategies in Public Procurement

Strengthening Higher Education Project (SHEP), funded by the World Bank;

Participants : 6 mid-level officials from Afghanistan.

Agribusiness Development and Management

Greater Noakhali Agriculture Extension Project, funded by Danida;

Participants : 15 senior and mid-level officials from Bangladesh.

Arbitration, Adjudication and Contract Management

North East Community Restoration and Development Project, funded by Asian Development Bank ;

Participants : 20 senior government engineers from Sri Lanka.

Central Bank Regulation and Supervision

Nepal Rastra Bank, funded by World Bank;

Participants : 29 senior and mid-level officials from Nepal.

Certificate Course in Management Consulting Essentials

Funded by Government of Brunei, Fiscal Policy Research Institute, Thailand;

Participants : 12 consultants from Brunei, Indonesia, Nepal and Thailand.

Conflict Resolution and Peace Building

Funded by Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction (MoPR), Nepal;

Participants : 10 senior and mid-level officials from MoPR, Nepal.

Construction Management

Funded by the World Bank and Bhutan Telecom;

Participants : 26 senior engineers from Bhutan and Pakistan.

Contract Administration and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Punjab Resource Management Program (PRMP), funded by World Bank;

Participants : 18 senior government officials from Pakistan.

Costing in an Electric Utility

Funded by Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA);

Participants : 16 senior officials from NEA, Nepal.

Curriculum Development and ICT Applications

Funded by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA);

Participants : 15 mid-level officials from the Ministry of Education, Nepal.

Education Planning, Budgeting and Monitoring

Funded by World Bank;

Participants : 10 senior government officials from Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka.


Effective Educational Management and Leadership

Funded by Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA);

Participants : 10 senior and mid-level officials from Ministry of Education, Nepal.

Effective Implementation of e-Governance

Funded by Department of Personnel Training, India;

Participants : 8 senior government officials from India.

Effective Implementation of Programs for NTC

Funded by Nepal Telecom (NTC);

Participants : 15 senior and mid-level officials from Nepal Telecom.

Effective measures for Energy Conservation

Funded by EBARA, Japan;

Participants : 28 participants from various South East Asian countries.

Effective Regulation of Infrastructure Utilities

Funded by Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC);

Participants : 10 senior administrative staff from NERC, Nigeria.

Enabling Effective District Leadership for Reproductive Health in Pakistan

Funded by Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD), Pakistan;

Participants : 23 participants from NGOs, the private sector and Government of Pakistan.

Facilitation of ICT Applications in Computer Learning Centers (CLCs)

Secondary Education Modernization Project (SEMP), Sri Lanka, funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB);

Participants : 27 senior officials from the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka.

Facilitation of School-Based Assessment (SBA) Implementation

Secondary Education Modernization Project II (SEMP), Sri Lanka, funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB);

Participants : 27 senior and mid-level government officials from Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka.

Financial Management, Accounting and Audit


Participants : 18 senior and mid-level government officials from the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka.

Financial Management, Auditing and Accounting in Central Banks


Participants : 30 mid-level officials from Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB).

Fredskorpset Preparatory Course in Asia

Funded by Fredskorpset, Norway;

Participants : 18 youth leaders from South and South East Asia.

Geotechnical and Landslide Investigation for Highway Projects

Funded by Government of Nepal;

Participants : 15 senior engineers from the Department of Roads, Nepal.


Hospital Management in Tertiary Health Care

Punjab Resource Management Program (PRMP), funded by World Bank;

Participants : 20 senior medical doctors and administrative managers from Government of Pakistan.

Human Resources Management


Participants : 32 senior and mid-level officials from Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB).

ICT Applications in School and in the Community

Secondary Education Modernization Project (SEMP), Sri Lanka, funded by Asian Development Bank ;

Participants : 27 government teachers from Sri Lanka.

ICT Applications in the Training Center

National Center for Educational Development (NCED), funded by Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA);

Participants : 10 mid-level officials from Ministry of Education, Nepal.

Implementing Selective ERP Applications and Management

Funded by Bangladesh Bank;

10 senior officials from Bangladesh Bank, Bangladesh.

Irrigation System Management

Punjab Resource Management Program (PRMP) - Funded by World Bank;

Participants : 15 senior engineers and managers from Irrigation and Power Department, Pakistan.

IT Applications in Project Management

Funded by Department of Personnel Training, Government of India and World Bank;

Participants : 11 senior government officials from India and Sri Lanka.

IT Applications in Project Management

Funded by Government of Bangladesh;

Participants : 13 engineers from Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), Government of Bangladesh.

IT Network Security

Funded by Department for International Development (DFID);

Participants : 10 government officials from Bangladesh.

Laboratory Procedures for Agricultural Sciences

Funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) ;

Participants : 7 technical officers from Afghanistan.

Leading Change & Organizational Renewal

Funded by Bangladesh Bank and Improving Relevance and Quality of Undergraduate Education (IRQUE) Project;

Participants : 11 participants from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.


Local Curriculum Planning and Management

Education Sector Advisory Team (ESAT) - Funded by Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA);

Participants : 10 senior and mid-level government officials from the Ministry of Education, Nepal.

Management and Implementation of Selective ERP Applications

Funded by Bangladesh Bank;

Participants : 16 senior officials from Bangladesh Bank.

Management and Operation of Science Laboratory

Funded by The Open University of Sri Lanka;

Participants : 8 technical staff from The Open University, Sri Lanka.

Managing for Development Results

Funded by Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN), Pakistan;

Participants : 4 Managers from RSPN, Pakistan.

Monitoring and Evaluation of Infrastructure Development Project


Participants : 20 Senior Engineers and Administrative Staff from Government of Pakistan.

Municipal Administrative Systems and Application of ICT


Participants : 9 Senior Government officials from Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), Government of Bangladesh.

Office/General Management Skills Using IT Applications

Funded by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GTZ) Nepal and Bangladesh Bank;

Participants : 5 officials from GTZ Nepal and Bangladesh Bank.

Prawn Hatchery Operations and Management


Participants : 12 senior government officials from Department of Fisheries and Livestock, Bangladesh.

Project Management

Funded by various donors;

Participants : 9 senior government officials from Afghanistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Project Monitoring and Evaluation focusing on the Millennium Development Goals

Funded by UNDP Bangladesh;

Participants : 13 senior and mid-level government officials from Bangladesh.

Project Planning and Quality Assurance

Funded by Nepal Telecom;

Participants : 15 senior and mid-level engineers from Nepal Telecom, Nepal.

Public Administration Reform, Performance Management and Service Delivery

Managing at The Top Project, funded by UK Department for International Development;

Participants : 45 senior government officials from Bangladesh.


Quality Assurance in Education

Funded by Government of Sri Lanka;

Participants : 13 senior government officials from the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka.

Solid & Clinical Waste Management

Funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB);

Participants : 15 participants from Bangladesh.

Team Building and Management


Participants : 10 senior and mid-level officials from the Ministry of Local Government & Rural Development, Bangladesh.

Toxic and Hazardous Waste Management

Funded by University of Balochistan, Pakistan;

Participants : 5 Assistant Professors from the University of Balochistan, Pakistan.

Training for Engineering Technicians

Funded by Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), India;

Participants : 10 technical staff from MNIT, India.

Training of Trainers

Funded by Government of India;

Participants : 7 senior officials from various administrative training institutes in India.

Training of Trainers (TOT) for Aquaculture Development

Funded by Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA);

Participants : 10 senior and mid-level officials from Office of the Upazila Fisheries, Bangladesh.

Trends in Teaching and Learning in 21st Century Schools

Funded by Rex Bookstore, Philippines;

Participants : 37 school administrators from Philippines.

UNDP – LOGOTRI Capacity Building Program in Thailand

Funded by UNDP/Afghanistan Sub-national Governance Programme (ASGP);

Participants : 14 senior government officials from Afghanistan.

University Management and Administration

Funded by University of Balochistan, Pakistan;

Participants : 7 senior administrators from the University of Balochistan, Pakistan.

Urban Poverty Alleviation

Funded by GTZ-udle, Nepal;

Participants : 14 participants from GTZ-udle and different Ministries of Nepal.

Zoo Management


Participants : 20 senior officials from various Wildlife and Parks Department, Pakistan.


Consultancy Projects

Human Resources Development and Training Management

• Design and Development of Training Manual on Irrigation System Management, Royal Irrigation Department, Thailand.

• Design and Development of Training Manual on On-farm Irrigation Water Management, Royal Irrigation Department

• Project Appraisal on Using ICT for Instructional Support in Cambodia, Lao, PDR and Vietnam.

• Strengthening Basin Wide Institutional Development Framework for Effective MRC HRD System.

• Human Resource Development Guideline for Mekong River Commission.

• Program Evaluation on Environmental Training Program for the Mekong River Commission.

• Performance-based Management for Secondary Education Sector in Bangladesh.

• Institutional Linkage and Capacity Building Program for National Center for Educational Development, Ministry of Education, Nepal.

• Policy Dialogue and Municipal Framework for Solid Waste Management.

• Training Center Development Project of Siam City Cement Company Limited.

• Capacity Building and Training Needs Assessment of Wetland Alliance Project Funded by SIDA.

• Performance-based Management System Development for National Center for Educational Development Ministry of Education, Nepal.

• Training Management Framework for Phnom Penh Water Supply Company Ltd., Cambodia.

• Curriculum Development on Water Utilities Leadership for USAID.

• Training Need Assessment for Capacity Building of Technical Department, Punjab Resources Management Program, Government of Punjab, Pakistan.


Information and Communication Technology

• Project Administration and Monitoring System, Phase I for Department of Technical & Economic Cooperation (DTEC), Thailand.

• Management Information System Feasibility Study for Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO), ASEAN.

• Programs Management System for Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO), ASEAN.

• IT Strategy for International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (ICDDR,B), Bangladesh.

• Fast-Track IT Strategy for Grameen Bank, Bangladesh.

• Medium-Term Computerization Plan for Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAPA) of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), Thailand.

• Fast-Track IT Strategy for Telephone Organization of Thailand (TOT), Thailand.

• Agricultural Information Management and Networking System for Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (AARD), Ministry of Agriculture, Republic of Indonesia.

• IT Strategy and Implementation for Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.

• Development of Environmental Database for National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) & Department of Environmental Quality Promotion (DEQP), Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Thailand.

• Human Resources Management Information System for Telephone Organization of Thailand (TOT).

• Training Center Management for Central Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Indonesia.

• A Database on Quality of Riverine & Coastal Waters of Thailand for National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) & Department of Environmental Quality Promotion (DEQP), Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Thailand.

• Educational Management Information System for Office of National Education Commission (ONEC), Thailand.

• IT Strategy for a National Airline for Druk Air, Bhutan.

• Geo-referenced Information System on Land Utilization for National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) & Office of Environmental Policy & Planning, Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Thailand.

• IT Master Plan for Ministry of Public Health, Thailand.

• IT Feasibility Study and Master Plan for Ministry of Commerce, Thailand.


Application Information

Eligibility

Participants in AIT Extension training courses are usually mid-career and senior level professionals with at least five years’ relevant work experience, and a good command of English.

Application

Please send your completed applications to:

Admissions Officer AIT Extension, Asian Institute of Technology P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand Fax: +66 2524-6332 Email: [email protected]

Completed applications should reach us at least eight weeks before the starting date of the training course.

Training Costs

The training fee covers tuition, materials, transportation costs for scheduled field trips, and minor medi-cal expenses. The following personal expenses should be added: a suggested subsistence allowance US$40/day, accommodation at the AIT Conference Center and international travel. The room rates at AIT Conference Center are given below:

Room

Room (including breakfast) Single occupancy Double occupancy

Main Wing THB 1,200 (USD 43) THB 1,400 (USD 47)

New Wing THB 1,700 (USD 57) THB 1,900 (USD 63)

* Room rates are subject to change. Please reconfirm rates when booking.

Financial Support

AIT Extension does not provide financial assistance, and cannot seek support on behalf of individual participants. Applicants are encouraged to seek funding support from their organizations, or from other sources. If applicants meet entry requirements, a letter of acceptance can be provided for purposes of seeking financial support.


Payment

Payment can be made by check, international bank draft or by bank transfer. Please make your check payable to Asian Institute of Technology, and send with a copy of your invoice. For bank transfers, our bank details are:

Account Name: Asian Institute of Technology

Account Number: 359-3-00001-2

Bank name and address:

Siam Commercial Bank Co., Ltd.

AIT Sub Branch

59 Moo 9, Phaholyothin Highway

Klong Luang, Pathum Thani, 12120

Thailand

Type of A/C: Current

Swift Code: SICOTHBK

Confirmation

Notice of acceptance will be sent to applicants within 15 days of receipt of application.

AIT Extension reserves the right to cancel courses with insufficient enrolment. Applicants will be notified of such cancellation by email or fax at least a month before the date of commencement of the course. In case of course cancellation, AIT Extension’s liability is limited to full refund of deposited fees only.

Similarly, cancellations by participants should be received at least four weeks prior to the start of the training course.

A cancellation fee equivalent to 20% of the training fee will be charged for later cancellations.


Application FormAIT Extension

International Training Program

Please write clearly in black. Photocopies of this form are also acceptable.

INSTRUCTIONSPlease note that only complete applications will be considered. The application must include this personal application form and one recent, passport size photograph.

COURSE INFORMATIONCourse name ...........................................................................................................................................................................................

Course schedule ....................................................................................................................... Year 2010 c 2011 c

Have you attended previous AIT Extension International Training Programs? If yes, please indicate the course title and year

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PERSONAL INFORMATIONFamily name .................................................................................... Mr c Ms c Mrs c Dr c

First name ......................................................................................... Middle name ...............................................................................

Name,asrequiredinthecertificate ............................................................................................................................................

Date of birth (dd/mm/yyyy) ............................................... Male c Female c Nationality ........................................................

Passport no ...................................................................... Place of issue .............................................................................................

Date of issue (dd/mm/yyyy) .............................................. Expiry date (dd/mm/yyyy) ...........................................................................

Address ..................................................................................................................................................................................................

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Education (last two institutions only). Dates attended and degrees receivedInstitution name and location Major subject / date enrolled Degree received

Please give your reasons for wanting to attend the program ..................................................................................................................

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Elaborate here on any special experience which you think is relevant to your application .....................................................................

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What is your expectation for this program? .............................................................................................................................................

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ENGLISH AND COMPUTER PROFICIENCIESEnglishProficiency: Writing Excellentc Good c Fair c Poor c Speaking Excellent c Good c Fair c Poor cPleasedescribeyourcomputerproficiency:Programminglanguage(s)and/orapplication(s)thatyouarefamiliarwith,yourroleandyears of experience in using it (only required for those registering for trainings in IT)

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CURRENT EMPLOYMENTJob title or position ........................................................................... Division / unit ................................................................................Company / organization ..........................................................................................................................................................................Type of organization Private c Public c Government c International organization c NGO cOther,pleasespecify: ..........................................................................................................Address ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Phone ................................................... Fax ...................................................... Email .......................................................................Description of duties at work .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

EMPLOYMENT HISTORYEmploymentrecord(lastfiveyears).Datesandpositionsheld. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

FINANCIAL SUPPORTProvided by ...................................................................................... Sponsoring agency ......................................................................

Contact name in sponsoring agency .......................................................................................................................................................Address ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Phone ........................................... Fax ...................................................... Email ...............................................................................

CONTACT INFORMATIONPerson to contact in case of emergencyName ............................................................................................................ Relation ...........................................................................Address ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Phone ........................................... Fax ...................................................... Email ...............................................................................

OTHERSFood restriction I am strictly vegetarian c I can not eat beef c I can not eat pork c I can not eat ............................................................................................................................................................

ADMISSION POLICYIfadmitted,Iagreetothefollowingconditions:c No absence from the program without written permission from the Program DirectorcFailuretoabidebytheserulesmayresultinanon-awardthecertificate

Applicant signature ............................................................................... Date (dd/mm/yyyy) ....................................................................


Frequently Asked QuestionsAdmissions Procedure

1. How do I apply to a program?

There are three ways to apply:

i. Complete the online application available at our website

ii. Download a printable PDF application from the web site and submit the completed application by email or fax as instructed on the application

iii. Request an application form by email at [email protected]

For additional questions, please feel free to contact our Client Management and Marketing team at [email protected] or [email protected] Tel: +66 2524 5273 / 5338

2. Is there an application fee?

There is no application fee for AIT Extension courses.

3. What are your admissions requirements?

Admission requirements are flexible. As other participants are likely to be experienced professionals, relevant professional experience is essential. All participants are expected to be able to use English competently for study purposes. Formal academic requirements are not essential.

4. How long does it take to process my application?

For most courses, we review applications at least two months before the starting date of the course. We will let you know at least one month before the beginning of the course.

5. How do I check the status of my application?

To check the status of a current application, please contact us by email at: [email protected], phone: +66 2524 5338, or fax: +66 2524 6332.

6. If I live outside Thailand, how will I get a visa to attend a training course?

Passport holders from many countries are not required to obtain a visa in advance and can receive a visa for 30 days on arrival (http://www.mfa.go.th/web/2482.php?id=2490). Citizens of other countries will need a non-immigrant visa before boarding a flight to Thailand. AIT Extension can guide participants on the required visa application process. For more information about Thailand’s visa and passport requirements, you may also visit the website of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Thailand.

Payment and Cancellation

7. What does the course fee include?

The course fee includes tuition, course materials, field trips, airport transfers and minor medical insurance. It does not include international air travel from your country, food, accommodation and incidental expenses (laundry, entertainment, and phone bills).

8. When is payment due?

Payment is due at least 21 days before the start of the course.


9. What types of payment are accepted?

Payment can be made by check, international bank draft or by bank transfer. Please make your check payable to Asian Institute of Technology, and send with a copy of your invoice. For bank transfers, our bank details are:

10. What is AIT’s cancellation policy?

Cancellations or deferrals must be submitted in writing at least 21 days before the course start date to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals received later are subject to a cancellation fee equivalent to 20% of the training fee.

11. Is financial aid available?

Financial assistance is not available for any of the training courses – it is your responsibility to find financial support for the course.

Living on Campus

Accommodation and meals

12. What types of accommodation are available on campus? How much does it cost?

Accommodation on campus is available at the AIT Conference Center Hotel. There are 100 guest rooms (suites, superior and standard rooms) together with a selection of dining venues.

Individual bedrooms include a private bath and standard amenities, as well as free 24-hour high-speed Internet access. Wireless Internet is also available in the lobby and in other AITCC facilities.

Present room rates, including breakfast, at AITCC are:

For information on campus facilities, please visit http://aitcc.ait.ac.th/index.html

13. Are participants required to stay on campus?

All courses are residential, and participants are expected to stay on AIT campus, unless the client requests that a course be organized at a venue outside AIT.

Account Name: Asian Institute of Technology

Account Number: 359-3-00001-2

Bank name and address:

Siam Commercial Bank Co., Ltd.

AIT Sub Branch

59 Moo 9, Phaholyothin Highway

Klong Luang, Pathum Thani, 12120

Thailand

Type of A/C: Current

Swift Code: SICOTHBK

Room (including breakfast) Single occupancy Double occupancy

Main Wing USD 42 / night USD 47 / night

New Wing USD 57 / night USD 63 / night


14. Should I bring my laptop?

Training rooms are all equipped with desktop computers and high-speed Internet access, which you can use at any time of the day. Wireless Internet access is presently installed in all parts of the AIT Conference Center Hotel.

Laptops are also available for rent at the AIT Conference Center.

15. What can I expect on the first day?

On the opening day of the course, registration takes place in the AIT Conference Center, probably outside your training room. This is followed by a formal opening ceremony and a course briefing. Later in the day, there will be a welcome lunch or dinner. If your travel plans necessitate late arrival, please be sure to notify us so that alternate transfer and registration arrangements can be made for you.

16. What can I expect on the last day?

Most courses adjourn in the late afternoon of the final day followed by a closing ceremony (awarding certificates). Transport to Suvarnabhumi International Airport is provided according to participants’ departure plans.

17. Are meals provided?

Meals are not included in the tuition fee. There is a dining room in the AIT Conference Center, and several other reasonably priced restaurants and cafeterias on campus.

18. Are special meals available?

Participants with special dietary requirements are asked to contact us upon their arrival. For Muslim participants halal food is available at the AITCC dining facility and student cafeteria.

19. Is accommodation available for extended visits or for family members?

Due to the relatively small number of rooms on campus, participants in AIT events have priority. If rooms are available, you may extend your stay; please check for availability after you arrive.

AIT Extension normally does not encourage participants to bring their families. Please check with AIT Extension before making arrangements to bring your families.

Dress

20. What is the dress code for participants during a course?

For classroom sessions, smart casual dress is required. For opening and closing ceremonies, and for exposure visits to corporations and government offices, we recommend that you bring formal business attire. For women, saris, salwa kamis and other traditional forms of dress are normally acceptable.

Please make sure that you bring at least one pair of shoes with closed toes.

21. Are there any questions that we haven’t answered?

Contact the AIT Extension Client Management and Marketing team at:

Email: [email protected] / [email protected] / [email protected]

Tel: +66-2524-5273, or +66-2524-5338

Fax: +66 2524 6332


Quick Index

Agriculture and Food Security

AF01: Horticultural Crop Production and Marketing (2 weeks) ................................................................................ 6AF02: Small-Scale Livestock Development and Extension Techniques (2 weeks) ................................................ 26AF03: Soil Management and Extension Techniques (2 weeks) .................................................................................... 26AF04: Agribusiness Development and Management (2 weeks) ................................................................................. 27AF05: Delivering Quality Extension Services (2 weeks) .................................................................................................. 27AF06: Marketing and Value Chain Management in Agriculture (2 weeks) .............................................................. 27AF07: Modern Biotechnology Management (2 weeks) .................................................................................................. 28AF08: Food Safety and Quality Management (2 weeks) ................................................................................................ 28AF09: Biotechnology Policy Development and Analysis (2 weeks) ........................................................................... 28AF10: Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) (2 weeks) ......................... 29AF11: Sustainable Land Management (2 weeks) .............................................................................................................. 29AF12: Sustainable Urban Agriculture (2 weeks) ................................................................................................................ 30

Environment

EN01: Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (3 weeks) ................................................................................. 31EN02: Economic Evaluation of Environmental Impacts (2 weeks) .............................................................................. 31EN03: Environmental Risk Assessment (2 weeks) ............................................................................................................. 31EN04: Toxic and Hazardous Waste Management (2 weeks) .......................................................................................... 32EN05: Urban Environmental Management (2 weeks) ..................................................................................................... 32EN06: Disaster Management (2 weeks) ................................................................................................................................ 32EN07: Participatory Watershed Management (3 weeks) ................................................................................................ 33EN08: Planning for Community Water Supply and Waste Management (3 weeks) ............................................. 33EN09: Environmental Governance (2 weeks) ..................................................................................................................... 33EN10: Environmental Sanitation – Strategic Planning and Innovative Tools (3 weeks) ...................................... 34EN11: Sustainable Sanitation Systems and Technology (2 weeks) ............................................................................. 34EN12: Industrial Wastewater Recovery and Reuse Using Membranes Technology (1 week) ............................ 34EN13: Climate Change, and Response (1 week) ................................................................................................................ 35EN14: Community Based Disaster Risk Management (2 week) ................................................................................... 35


ED01: Quality Assurance for Higher Education and Training Institutions (3 weeks) ............................................ 36ED02: Governance of Educational Institutions in the 21st Century (2 weeks) ....................................................... 36ED03: Knowledge Management in Educational Institutions (2 weeks) .................................................................... 36ED04: Managing and Facilitating Research in Educational Institutions (2 weeks) ............................................... 37ED05: Management of Training Centers (3 weeks) .......................................................................................................... 37ED06: Training of Trainers (3 weeks) ...................................................................................................................................... 37ED07: Advanced Competencies for Trainers (3 weeks) ................................................................................................... 38ED08: Ensuring Training Quality (3 weeks) .......................................................................................................................... 38ED09: Development and Production of Learning Packages (3 weeks) ..................................................................... 38ED10: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Education Management (3 weeks) ............ 38ED11: Participatory Curriculum Development (2 weeks) .............................................................................................. 39ED12: Workshop and Study Visit on Design and Implementation of Non-formal Education and Life Skills Development Programs (2 weeks) ......................................................................................................................................... 39ED13: Education Strategic Planning and Management (2 weeks) ............................................................................. 39ED14: Education Planning, Budgeting and Monitoring (2 weeks) ............................................................................. 40


Poverty Reduction and MDGs

PL01: Leadership in Rural Development (2.5 weeks) ...................................................................................................... 41PL02: Modern Municipality and Local Government Management (2.5 weeks) ..................................................... 41PL03: Small Enterprises and Market Mobilization (2 weeks) ........................................................................................ 41PL04: Management for Development Results (MfDR) (2 weeks) ................................................................................ 42PL05: Service Quality Management for Rural Development (2 weeks) .................................................................... 42PL06: Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Thailand & Malaysia (2.5 weeks) ..................................... 42PL07: Strategic Development Planning for Pro-Poor Growth: Thailand & Vietnam (2.5 weeks) ...................... 43PL08: Capacity Development for Disaster Risk Reduction and Rehabilitation (2.5 weeks) ............................... 43PL09: Making a Rights-based Approach to Development Work (2 weeks) ............................................................. 43PL10: Sustainable Tourism Planning for Pro-Poor Growth (2.5 weeks) ..................................................................... 44PL11: Strategic Development and Management of Tourism Destinations (2.5 weeks) ...................................... 44PL12: Rural Entrepreneurship Development (2 Weeks) .................................................................................................. 44PL13: Urban Poverty Reduction (2 Weeks) .......................................................................................................................... 45PL14: Sustainable Coastal Community and Ecosystem Management (2 Weeks) .................................................. 45

Management

BM01: AIT Performance Leaders™ Series: Finance and Performance Management (2 weeks) ........................ 46BM02: Organizational Financial Planning and Cost Control (2 weeks) ..................................................................... 46BM03: Finance for Non-Finance Managers (1 week) ....................................................................................................... 46BM04: AIT Performance Leaders™ Series: Human Capital and Organization Management (2 weeks) ......... 47BM05: Strategic HR Management (2 weeks) ....................................................................................................................... 47BM06: Managing People and Service Businesses (1 week) ........................................................................................... 48BM07: Human Resource Management (2 weeks) ............................................................................................................. 48BM08: HRD Skills for Functional Managers (2 weeks) ..................................................................................................... 48BM09: Value-Based Strategic Planning and Execution: Driving Profitable Growth in Asia (2 weeks) ............ 49BM10: AIT Performance Leaders™ Series: Strategic Marketing and Maximizing Customer Loyalty ............. 49BM11: Price it Right: Advanced Course in Strategic and Value-based Pricing (1 week) ...................................... 50BM12: Marketing Management (1 week) ............................................................................................................................ 50BM13: Building and Nurturing Competitive Advantage (1 week) .............................................................................. 50BM14: Strategic Supply Chain Management (2 weeks) .................................................................................................. 51BM15: Public Relations for Business Success (1 week) .................................................................................................... 51BM16: Leading Change and Organizational Renewal (1 week) ................................................................................... 51BM17: Management of Organizational Change (2 weeks) ............................................................................................ 52BM18: Strategic Negotiations for Long Term Organization Success (1 week) ........................................................ 52BM19: Effective Management Skills and Techniques (2 weeks) .................................................................................. 52BM20: Advanced Management for Asia–Pacific Managers (2 weeks) ....................................................................... 53BM21: General Management (2 weeks) ............................................................................................................................... 53BM22: Office Management Skills (2 weeks) ........................................................................................................................ 53BM23: Small and Medium Business Management (2 weeks) ....................................................................................... 53BM24: Advanced Course in Improving Corporate Governance and Board Performance in Asia (2 weeks) 54BM25: Strategic IT Management: Transforming IT from Business Support to Business Driver (2 weeks) .... 54BM26: Information Technology and Management (2 weeks) ...................................................................................... 55BM27: Outsourcing: Mastering the Four Key Phases (1 week) ....55BM28: Management and Leadership for Engineering and Technical Professionals (1 week)........................... 55BM29: Business Analyst Foundation Course: At the Interchange of Business and Technology (1 week) ..... 56BM31: Financial Management, Accounting and Audit (2 weeks) ............................................................................... 56DE01: Project Management (3 weeks) .................................................................................................................................. 57DE02: Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation (3 weeks) .......................................................................... 57DE03: Management and Implementation of Development Projects (3 weeks) .................................................... 58DE04: Managing for Development Results: Practicum in Improving Effectiveness and Impact through MDR (2 weeks) .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 58DE05: Strategic Management of NGOs (2 weeks) ............................................................................................................. 58DE06: Conflict, Mediation and Dialogue (1 week) ............................................................................................................ 59DE07: Managing Micro Enterprises: Interventions, Development and Programs (2 week) .............................. 59



PM01: Tackling the Needs of Children and Youth: Opportunity or Time Bomb? (2 weeks) ............................... 60PM02: Trade Development Strategy and Strengthening Capacity for Trade in the New Global Context ... 60PM03: Meeting the Challenge of Globalization: Making Globalization Work (2 weeks) .................................... 61PM04: Transportation Strategy and Transport-Infrastructure Development (2 weeks) ...................................... 61PM05: Effective Regulation of Infrastructure Utilities (2 weeks).................................................................................. 62PM06: Asian Public Sector Management (2 weeks) ......................................................................................................... 62PM07: Leadership in Public Services (2 weeks).................................................................................................................. 62PM08: Planning and Administering Good Governance (2 weeks) .............................................................................. 62PM09: Governance and Anti-Corruption: The Methods and Tools Behind an Effective Corruption-Eradication Strategy (2 weeks) ........................................................................................................................................................................ 63PS01: Using Value Chain and Cluster Strategies to Improve National Competitiveness (2 weeks) ................ 63PS02: Building, Enabling, and Leading Sustainable Microfinance Institutions and the Development of a Robust Microfinance Sector (2 weeks) ................................................................................................................................................. 64PS03: Promoting SME Productivity and Growth: Improving Livelihoods by Enabling Small Businesses .... 64PS04: Private Sector Strategy: Foundation Course in Effective Private Sector Development (2 weeks) ...... 65PS05: Leadership Development Program for Public Utility Managers in Asia (2 weeks) .................................... 65PS06: Plan, Do, Check, and Act: Practicum in Continual Improvement Management (2 weeks) .................... 66

Information and Communication Technologies IT01: Network Security (3 weeks) ............................................................................................................................................ 67IT02: Web Page Development and Deployment (2 weeks) ........................................................................................... 67IT03: Design and Development of Internet/Intranet Accessible Information System using MS SQL Server67IT04: Linux Essentials and Server Administration (2 weeks) ......................................................................................... 68IT05: Design and Development of Instructional Material Using Desktop, Web and Multimedia Tools ....... 68IT06: Web-based Database Applications Development Using MySQL and PHP (4 weeks) ............................... 68IT07: Survey Data Organization and Analysis Using Statistical Application Software (4 weeks) ..................... 69IT08: PC Configuration & Troubleshooting (2 weeks) ...................................................................................................... 69IT09: Implementing & Troubleshooting Wireless Networks (2 weeks) ...................................................................... 69IT10: Office Applications, Web and Multimedia Tools (3 weeks) ................................................................................. 69IT11: Installation and Administration of Windows 2003 Server (2 weeks) ............................................................... 70IT12: Oracle Database Development and Administration (3 weeks) ......................................................................... 70IT13: ICT for International Construction Projects (3 weeks) .......................................................................................... 70IT14: ICT and Gender Development (2 weeks) .................................................................................................................. 71IT15: Municipality Administrative System using Application of ICT .......................................................................... 71IT16: Information Technology Audit (3 weeks) .................................................................................................................. 71IT17: IT Service Management: Best Practices (2 weeks) .................................................................................................. 71IT18: Essentials of RFID Technology (1 week) ..................................................................................................................... 72IT19: RFID Software Integration (2 weeks) .......................................................................................................................... 72IT20: Introduction to Cloud Computing (1 week) ............................................................................................................. 72IT21: Managing IT Projects (2 weeks) .................................................................................................................................... 73

Infromation Management

IM01: Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Natural Resources Management (3 weeks) ........................... 74IM02: Implementing Selective ERP Applications and Management (2 weeks) ..................................................... 74IM03: Information Technology Applications in Project Management (3 weeks) .................................................. 74IM04: E-Commerce and E-Services: Strategies and Implementation (3 weeks) .................................................... 75IM05: Educational Research, Evaluation and Analysis Using Information Technology (3 weeks) ................... 75IM06: IT Applications in Management (2 weeks) .............................................................................................................. 75IM07: ICT for Poverty Reduction and Rural Development Planning (3 weeks) ...................................................... 76IM08: Construction Management using ICT (3 weeks) ................................................................................................... 76IM09: Effective Implementation of e-Governance (3 weeks) ....................................................................................... 76IM10: Information Systems Development and Management (3 weeks) .................................................................. 77IM11: Effective Management Skills Development using ICT (3 weeks) .................................................................... 77


IM12: Office/General Management Skills using IT Applications (2 weeks) ............................................................. 77IM13: Water Resources Management using IT Applications (2 weeks) ..................................................................... 77IM14: ICT in Public Administration and Civil Service Management (2 weeks) ....................................................... 78IM15: Knowledge Management (2 weeks) .......................................................................................................................... 78IM16: Multimedia Journalism (2 weeks) ............................................................................................................................... 78IM17: E‐ Procurement (2 weeks) .............................................................................................................................................. 79IM18: IT Governance (2 weeks) ................................................................................................................................................ 79

Engineering

EG01: Introduction to the Micro–Hydro Power (1 week) ............................................................................................... 80EG02: Introduction to Renewable Energy (1 week) ......................................................................................................... 80EG03: Bridge Design and Construction using ICT (3 weeks) ........................................................................................ 80EG04: Construction Management (3 weeks) ...................................................................................................................... 80EG05: Construction Management and Quality Control for Road Works (2.5 weeks) ........................................... 81EG06: Irrigation System Management (3 weeks) .............................................................................................................. 81EG07: Small Scale Water Resources Rehabilitation and Management (3 weeks) .................................................. 82EG08: Monitoring and Evaluation of Rural Infrastructure Development Projects (2 weeks) ............................ 82EG09: Rural Road Development and Maintenance Management (3 weeks) .......................................................... 82


SV01: Agricultural Extension Practices (2 weeks) .............................................................................................................. 83SV02: Rural Agribusiness Development and Management (2 weeks) ...................................................................... 83SV03: Appropriate and Innovative Farm Machinery (2 weeks) .................................................................................... 83SV04: Post harvest Technology (2 weeks) ............................................................................................................................ 84SV05: Integrated Coastal Zone Management (2 weeks) ................................................................................................ 84SV06: Sustainable Natural Resources and Environment Management and Planning (2 weeks) ..................... 84SV07: Environmental Conflict Management and Resolution (2 weeks) ................................................................... 85SV08: Rural Poverty Reduction (2 weeks) ............................................................................................................................ 85SV09: Urban Poverty Reduction (2 weeks) .......................................................................................................................... 85SV10: Micro-enterprises Development for Rural/Local Products (2 weeks) ............................................................ 86SV11: Local/Community-based Primary Health Care Management (2 weeks) ...................................................... 86SV12: Entrepreneurial Skills Development for Gender Empowerment (2 weeks) ................................................ 86SV13: Developing Community Sustainable Livelihoods (2 weeks) ............................................................................ 86SV14: Community-based Sustainable Livelihoods in Coastal Area (2 weeks) ........................................................ 87SV15: Community-based Sustainable Livelihoods in Uplands and Cross-border Area (2 weeks) .................. 87SV16: Development of Small and Medium Sized Tourism Enterprises (2 weeks) ................................................. 87SV17: Eco-Tourism and Environmental Conservation (2 weeks) ................................................................................. 88SV18: Rural and Community Destination Management (2 weeks) ............................................................................ 88SV19: Public-Private Partnership (1 week) ........................................................................................................................... 88SV20: Construction Management Practices (2 weeks) .................................................................................................... 88SV21: Health Care Management Information System (1 week) ................................................................................... 89


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