The BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University is offers Certificate Programme on Environmental Management and Governance jointly with the Centre for Natural Resource Studies of the University of Manitoba, Canada. The main purpose of the certificate programme is to sensitise and enhance the capacity of participants on key environmental governance issues related to natural resources and environment management. The certificate course is an intense programme which would provide opportunities to the participants to be trained with key concepts of environmental issues and concerns, management system, environmental governance, implementation methods and procedures.
The curriculum for this programme has been designed to offer exposure and training on theoretical knowledge on key issues, supplemented by case studies where appropriate, to make the programme as practical as possible.
The certificate programme is designed to be a four month long programme with twenty-five participants. Faculty members from BRACU, other private and public universities in Bangladesh, practitioners of environmental governance and faculty members from University of Manitoba will be the resource persons for the programme.