Name: Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development Training Course
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Scheduled Dates

23 - 27 Nov 2026

London - UK

$5,950

03 - 07 May 2027

London - UK

$5,950

06 - 10 Sep 2027

London - UK

$5,950

22 - 26 Nov 2027

London - UK

$5,950

Why Choose this Training Course?

Capacity building is the process by which a country strengthens the institutions, skills, systems and resources it needs to convert natural resource wealth into lasting national development. For petroleum producing and energy exporting states, this is the defining challenge of the next two decades. Reserves alone do not create prosperity. What determines whether hydrocarbon revenues fund diversified, resilient economies, or are lost to weak institutions, skills shortages and short term decision making, is the capability of the ministries, regulators, national oil companies and operating partners that govern the sector.

This Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course examines capacity building from the perspective of the energy sector itself. It takes participants from the principles of capacity development and resource governance, through institutional diagnosis and organisation design, into national workforce and local content strategy, stakeholder engagement and ethics, and finally into financing, implementation and measurement. Throughout, the frameworks are applied to real conditions in producing states, including national content mandates, energy transition pressure on skills, revenue volatility and the growing expectation that operators demonstrate a credible contribution to national development.

Participants leave able to diagnose the capacity gaps in their own institution, prioritise and sequence a capacity development roadmap, and measure and communicate results to ministers, boards and partners.

This Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course will highlight:

How capacity building translates natural resource wealth into sustainable national development
Recognised capacity development frameworks from UNDP, the OECD and the World Bank, applied to energy institutions
Institutional capacity diagnosis across the enabling environment, the organisation and the individual
National workforce, local content and in country value strategy, including ICV, IKTVA and comparable models
Stakeholder engagement, transparency, ethics and the social licence to operate
Financing, implementing and measuring capacity development programmes that survive political and price cycles

What are the Goals?

At the end of this Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course, you will be able to:

Explain the relationship between resource governance, capacity building and national sustainable development, including the mechanisms behind the resource curse and how capable institutions avoid it
Apply internationally recognised capacity development frameworks at the enabling environment, organisational and individual levels
Conduct a structured capacity needs assessment and translate the findings into a prioritised, costed development plan
Design workforce, competency, nationalisation and succession strategies aligned to national content requirements and to the energy transition
Evaluate governance, accountability and transparency arrangements against standards such as the EITI and the Natural Resource Charter
Build stakeholder engagement and community investment strategies that sustain the social licence to operate
Construct KPIs, monitoring and evaluation frameworks and a business case that demonstrate the return on capacity investment

Who is this Training Course for?

This Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

Officials in energy, petroleum, finance and planning ministries
Energy sector regulators and licensing authorities
National oil company executives and corporate planning professionals
Human capital, competency, learning and development, and nationalisation leads
Local content, in country value and national content managers
Corporate governance, compliance, ESG and sustainability professionals
Community relations, social performance and stakeholder engagement teams
Partner, joint venture and international operator staff responsible for national development commitments

How will this Training Course be Presented?

This Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course uses a range of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention. Facilitated presentations are supported by structured group discussion, applied examples drawn from producing states across the Gulf, West Africa, Central Asia, South East Asia and the North Sea, and guided individual reflection on the participant's own institutional context.

Delegates are encouraged to interact throughout, testing the frameworks presented against their own experience and drawing conclusions they can apply immediately on return to work.

Organisational Impact

Organisations sending delegates on this Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course will benefit through:

A clear, evidence based picture of where institutional capacity is strong and where it constrains delivery
Capacity development plans that are prioritised and costed rather than aspirational
Stronger national workforce pipelines and more credible local content and in country value performance
Improved governance, transparency and accountability, reducing regulatory and reputational exposure
More effective engagement with government, regulators, partners, communities and international institutions
The ability to demonstrate the contribution of capacity investment to national development objectives

Personal Impact

Delegates attending this Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course will benefit through:

A practical command of the capacity development frameworks used by governments, donors and international institutions
The ability to run a capacity needs assessment and defend its conclusions to senior stakeholders
Greater confidence in designing competency frameworks, succession plans and nationalisation strategies
Sharper judgement in ethical, governance and stakeholder situations that carry national consequences
The skills to build and defend a business case for capacity investment
A clear personal view of the capacity priorities in their own institution and how to sequence them

Daily Agenda

Day 1: Resource Wealth, Governance and the Capacity Imperative

What capacity building means: the enabling environment, the organisation and the individual
From resource wealth to development: the resource curse, Dutch disease and the institutional response
Resource governance in practice: the Natural Resource Charter and the decision chain
The UN Sustainable Development Goals and the energy sector
International capacity development frameworks: UNDP, OECD DAC and World Bank approaches

Day 2: Diagnosing and Designing Institutional Capacity

Capacity needs assessment: scope, method, evidence and stakeholder validation
Organisational maturity and capability assessment for ministries, regulators and national oil companies
Mandate clarity and the separation of policy, regulation and commercial operations
Operating models, organisation design and decision rights
Capacity gap analysis, prioritisation and sequencing under budget constraint

Day 3: Human Capital, National Content and the Future Workforce

Strategic workforce planning and the energy sector skills demand profile
Competency frameworks: design, assessment and application to technical and leadership roles
Local content and in country value: NOGICD, IKTVA, Emiratisation and comparable regimes
Leadership pipelines, succession planning and knowledge transfer from expatriate and contractor workforces
Skills for the energy transition and the redeployment of petroleum capability

Day 4: Stakeholders, Ethics, Transparency and the Social Licence

Stakeholder identification, mapping, prioritisation and engagement planning
Transparency and anti corruption: the EITI standard, beneficial ownership and contract disclosure
Ethics and corporate governance: paradigms, dilemmas and effective compliance programmes
Corporate social responsibility and social investment that builds capacity rather than dependency
The social licence to operate: how it is earned, how it is lost and how it is measured

Day 5: Financing, Implementation, Measurement and Sustainability

Financing capacity development: national budgets, revenue funds and partner commitments
Managing revenue volatility: sovereign wealth funds, stabilisation funds and fiscal rules
Building the business case and demonstrating the return on capacity investment
Monitoring and evaluation: theory of change, KPIs and leading versus lagging indicators
Implementation roadmaps and sustaining capacity through political, leadership and price cycles

Certificate

Upon successful completion of this training course, delegates will be awarded an official PetroKnowledge Certificate of Completion, signed by the course facilitator. The certificate confirms successful participation and records the total learning hours completed.
Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE): In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance.

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