A Training of Trainers Programme on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) from 26th-30th November, 2018 at HIPA was organised in pursuance of request received from Planning Department, Govt. of HP. The Institute has been invited by Planning Department for technical cooperation project on capacity building for Sustainable Development Goals. In this regard, trainers manual and training module have been prepared by the Institute. The same manual and module have been pilot run for the present programme.

The course aimed at capacity development of the officers/professional on the Sustainable Development Goals with a view to impart training to different stakeholders in future training courses. The course had the objective to sensitize the officers/professional about the vision for development & the journey from MDGs to SDGs, Awareness of global commitment for SDGs and localizing SDGs in respective department context besides their monitoring & evaluation. The officers with good communication skills besides experience of social development sector were invited as trainees in this course who could be potential trainers for the future programmes. The course was attended by 17 participants from different development departments of state. The 17 goals in broader categories of economic, social and environmental sections were addressed in detail with activity based learning.