
Please join us in welcoming the first members of the Global Network of MDP programs:
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The Master's in Development Practice (MDP) is a two-year degree providing graduate-level students with the skills and knowledge required to better identify and address the global challenges of sustainability development, such as poverty, population, health, conservation, climate change, and agricultural productivity. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has committed $15 million to create MDP programs at up to 15 universities worldwide oer the next three years. In June 2009, the MacArthur Foundation announced that 10 universities across the globe will receive significant grants to estabish new MDP programs.
In 2007 the MacArthur-supported International Commission on Education for Sustainable Development Practice, found that worldwide, many people working in the field of development are not sufficiently prepared to tackle the challenges they face. The creation of MDP programs is an acknowledgement that addressing extreme poverty and sustainable development throughout the world required expert knoweldge and an interdisciplinary approach across four key competencies; the natural sciences, health sciences, social sciences, and management.
The Global Master's in Development Practice Secretariat, supported by MacArthur and based at Columbia University's Earth Institute, will help manage the MDP network of universities, develop an open-source repository for the MDP curriculum and other teaching materials, and will offer an online, Global Classroom on sustainable development for students worldwide.
2008 International Commission on Education for Sustainable Development Practice REPORT
Global Network of MDP Programs Announced
Emory gets grant for Sustainable Development
AGDES Blog: New Masters in Development Practice
MacArthur Foundation pledges $15 Million Dollars to MDP Programs
Needed: A New Generation of Problem Solvers
Sustainability Starts in the Classroom
Oct. 10, 2008 launch of Commission report and findings