Global MDP

The network’s multifaceted role in creating new linkages that foster the movement of knowledge, skills, and approaches to pedagogy make it an asset for the operationalization of the fourth and final essential component, the infusion of practical experience into the classroom.

Here, the emphasis lies in blurring the boundaries between classroom learning and practical experience through known and novel approaches. #MDP

General examples include the use of prepared study cases; the use of real-world challenges as the focus for course work, often in close collaboration with professional partners; development of courses that specifically serve to interface with clients through real-world challenges

and the use of group-based training (or project teams) to mimic the multidisciplinary teams encountered in sustainable development-related fields. #MDP

Moreover, the Commission emphasized that each individual course should, whenever possible, endeavor to link disciplinary knowledge and skills to practical policy, management, and other contemporary sustainable development challenges. #MDP

Master of Development Practice program affiliation is defined and determined by attributes and features held in common, aspects largely covered by the principles and essential components highlighted above and below. #MDP

Each MDP program, however, is unique. Individual programs reside within different departments within their respective academic institutions. Each academic institution is, likewise, situated within a distinct context. #MDP