ED-Master in Governance and Development

BE2022ICP205A102 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2027 The sustainable governance of natural resources is an urgent and crucial precondition for achieving inclusive and sustainable human development. It requires critical thinking across multiple and interconnected scales and questioning dominant models based on extractivism, as well as dominant knowledge systems. The ICP Connect Governance and Development aims to create the space for doing so. The project will train agents of change (for the remainder of the text we will refer to change agents) in natural resources governance through co-created course modules, and stimulate them to critically think across scales and from multiple perspectives, thanks to their interaction in partner & alumni networks and communities of practice. It thereby aims at changes in the domain of people (change agents), education (co-created and research-based course modules) and networks (academic and alumni networks, feeding into new communities of practice). To do so, changes are needed in the domain of systems and policies (quality assurance and synergies). IOB will consolidate its partnership with the current partner, and at the same time broaden this up to new ‘friends’, and deepen the collaboration by exchanging knowledge and practices around (natural resources) governance from multiple stakeholders.