UBC Environment and Sustainable Development Secretariat offers a variety of trainings and consultation services to cities.

• Integrated Management System training gives the participants basic abilities to apply and develop an integrated management system for sustainability and/or climate change response in their city; can be provided also as facilitation service to give external support and view to the work being done.
• In the Stakeholder involvement training the participants will be trained to analyze stakeholders and to plan and follow through the stakeholder process.
• Peer review training familiarizes the participants with using peer review as a method for external evaluation in cooperation between cities, e. g. in climate work, traffic planning, and environmental management systems.
• Project preparation training includes the entire process of preparing a project, starting with the project idea and ending with a completed project application, with practical examples and exercises. In the training, certain steps of this process are emphasized according to the needs of the client.

• Tailored consultation for constructing or developing the Sustainable Development Strategy or Plan, climate work or environmental protection of a city in a comprehensive way.
• Consultation for project preparation to further develop the project idea or concept of a client. In the consul-tation, the right funding source and partners are identified and the client is supported in the process of drafting the project application and budgeting.

• A tailor made training for your city’s’ own needs. The volume and content depends on the needs of the local authorities themselves.