Become the Solution
- Empower people in your communities to change their lives,
- Develop impact-oriented projects from the ground-up,
- Use proven methods that produce sustainable results,
- Attract donors, and
- Collaborate with colleagues from the North and South.
Development Professionals from
115 countries have developed course projects that are impacting over 170,000 people.
See a sample assignment from Kenya.
Click on the course links below to see syllibi, course fees, and to enroll.
Next Courses: March 6 - April 30, 2012
Develop a Real Project in Real Time. We'll walk you, step-by-step, through a community-based project, using proven methods. Learn a range of skills including participatory needs assessments and evidence-based project design. You will learn strategies from others in the class facing similar challenges. Become the Solution.
Next Course: March 13 - April 23, 2012
Imbed impact into your project design with powerful management tools. LogFrames, detailed budgets, schedules, compelling fact sheets, M&E plans, outcomes & impact. These tools will communicate to donors & stakeholders exactly what your project will accomplish.
Over 40% student chosen projects in our courses work to solve problems linked to climate change. This four-course module will lead you into developing projects on-the-ground that focus on community-based adaptation to climate change. For practitioners who wish to begin working now at the community level to successfully adapt to the challenges that face us.
A Module of 8 Courses
Next Course: 341 Designing and Funding CBA Projects.
March 6 - April 30, 2012
This diploma program of online field courses integrates community-based adaptation to climate change, disaster risk reduction, and rural development. To earn a diploma simply complete four foundation courses, then select four elective courses from a variety of electives to tailor the diploma program to meet your needs and interests. The program will provide you with the job skills, tools, and methods to both meet today's challenges and to take on new professional positions in adaptation, DRR and development.
Next Course: March 6 - April 30, 2012
Implement a 12-month family gardening project. Learn about food security, good nutrition, and the garden activities that support them -- and then learn how to build a project that puts your community on the path to using their own skills to address their specific needs. Become a Solution.
Next Course: March 13 - April 23, 2012
How do you care for & maintain a food garden? How do you control pests? What happens if you have desert soil - or a shortage of water? Learn how to combine garden produce with daily staples to prepare nutritious meals that contain vitamins A, C and D.
CSDi Online Courses Capture a True Field Experience
Are you a donor, a development practitioner, in a job transition, or a student who wants to learn more about what works in designing impact-oriented projects?
Our online courses use each class assignment as a concrete step in developing a real project within a real community. You will take an assignment into the field and use it as a solution-oriented activity that you do together with community members—thereby finishing one component of the project you are developing in the class. And there you have it: an online field course with tangible, concrete results.
Don't have community access? No problem: we partner you with a fellow student in a developing nation who does.
