Course curriculum

    1. Welcome to the course!

    2. About the course

    3. Guidance for pilot participants

    4. Get in touch

    1. Module 1 overview

    2. 1.1. Understanding the landscape approach

    3. 1.2. Why multistakeholder collaboration?

    4. 1.3. Identifying best practice principles for multistakeholder collaboration

    5. 1.4. Evaluating the effectiveness of stakeholder collaboration

    6. Quiz 1

    1. Module 2 overview

    2. 2.1. Ensuring equity and social justice

    3. 2.1b. Justice as fairness (extra resource)

    4. 2.1a. Considering social equity in the design, planning and implementation of nature-based solutions (extra resource)

    5. 2.2. Understanding and managing power dynamics

    6. 2.3. Incorporating Indigenous and local knowledge and practices

    7. 2.3a. Integrating local and Indigenous knowledge in fire management (extra resource)

    8. 2.4. Facilitating social learning for knowledge co-production

    9. Quiz 2

    1. Module 3 overview

    2. 3.1. Assessing the landscape context

    3. 3.2. Undertaking a stakeholder mapping exercise

    4. Quiz 3

    1. Module 4 overview

    2. 4.1. Exploring approaches to multistakeholder collaboration

    3. 4.1a. Arts-based methods (extra resource)

    4. 4.1b. Participatory spatial tools (extra resource)

    5. 4.2. Organising a multistakeholder workshop

    6. 4.3. Choosing engagement tools

    7. 4.3a. Resilience game (extra resource)

    8. 4.4. Being a facilitator

    9. 4.5. Managing conflict

    10. Quiz 4

    1. Course evaluation and self-assessment

About this course

  • The course can be used for any non-commercial purpose. Interested students, researchers or practitioners can take the course in their own time and at their own pace. Course material can be viewed online, or can be downloaded and viewed offline. Lecturers can download some or all elements from the course to use in their own lectures. The course may also be used as it stands as a module in a formal curriculum with contact sessions organised by lecturers to discuss the content with students.

The course is applicable to any engaged or transdisciplinary research context where the objective is to collaborate with relevant stakeholders to understand and seek solutions to complex sustainability problems.

Course partners

This course was developed by the Supporting Partnerships and Networks Project (SPaN), through the ARUA Centre of Excellence on Climate and Development (ARUA-CD)