An Interactive 5-Day Training Course

Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development

Strengthening Institutions, Human Capital and Resource Governance in the Energy Sector

HRCI Pre-Approved Training Courses NASBA

Course Introduction

The long-term success of resource-rich nations depends not only on the value of their natural resources but also on the strength of the institutions responsible for managing them. For petroleum-producing and energy-exporting countries, sustainable development is achieved when effective governance, capable organisations, skilled professionals, and sound resource management work together to transform resource revenues into lasting economic and social progress. Building institutional capacity is therefore essential for improving governance, enhancing national competitiveness, supporting economic diversification, and ensuring that natural resource wealth delivers sustainable benefits for current and future generations.

The Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course provides a practical and strategic framework for strengthening institutional capability across the energy sector. Participants will examine internationally recognised approaches to capacity development while learning how to assess organisational effectiveness, improve governance structures, strengthen workforce capability, and implement national content initiatives that support long-term development objectives. The training also explores stakeholder engagement, ethical governance, financing mechanisms, implementation planning, and performance measurement, enabling participants to design practical capacity-building strategies that remain effective despite changing economic conditions, political priorities, and energy transition challenges.

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

  • Practical strategies for strengthening institutional capacity to support sustainable national development.
  • Internationally recognised capacity development frameworks adopted by organisations including the UNDP, OECD, and World Bank.
  • Methods for assessing institutional capability across governance systems, organisations, and workforce competencies.
  • Workforce development, localisation, national content, and in-country value initiatives that support long-term economic growth.
  • Governance, ethics, transparency, and stakeholder engagement practices that strengthen public trust and organisational performance.
  • Sustainable approaches for financing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating long-term capacity development initiatives.

Objectives

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

  • Explain how effective governance and institutional capacity contribute to sustainable national development and responsible resource management.
  • Apply internationally recognised capacity development models across institutional, organisational, and individual capability levels.
  • Conduct structured assessments to identify institutional capacity gaps and develop prioritised implementation plans.
  • Develop workforce planning, competency management, succession planning, and nationalisation strategies aligned with national content objectives and future industry needs.
  • Assess governance, transparency, and accountability arrangements using recognised international resource governance standards.
  • Develop stakeholder engagement and community investment strategies that strengthen long-term relationships and social acceptance.
  • Create performance measurement frameworks, monitoring systems, and business cases that demonstrate the impact and value of capacity development initiatives.

Training Methodology

The Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course adopts a practical and engaging learning methodology that encourages active participation and immediate workplace application. Learning is supported through expert-led presentations, facilitated discussions, practical industry examples, collaborative learning activities, and guided reflection based on participants' organisational experiences. Throughout the training, delegates are encouraged to compare international best practices with their own institutional environments, enabling them to develop realistic and actionable capacity development strategies that support sustainable organisational improvement.

Organisational Impact

Organisations participating in this Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course will benefit from:

  • Stronger institutional capability supported by structured capacity assessment and improvement planning.
  • More effective workforce development strategies aligned with nationalisation and local content objectives.
  • Enhanced governance, transparency, and accountability across organisational operations.
  • Improved collaboration with governments, regulatory authorities, communities, development partners, and industry stakeholders.
  • Better prioritisation of capacity development investments based on measurable organisational needs.
  • Increased ability to demonstrate how institutional strengthening contributes to sustainable national development outcomes.

Personal Impact

By attending this Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course, participants will:

  • Build practical expertise in internationally recognised institutional capacity development frameworks.
  • Develop confidence in conducting organisational assessments and presenting strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
  • Strengthen their ability to design competency frameworks, workforce development initiatives, succession plans, and nationalisation strategies.
  • Enhance professional decision-making when managing governance, ethics, stakeholder engagement, and transparency issues.
  • Improve their capability to develop evidence-based business cases supporting institutional capacity investments.
  • Acquire practical skills for identifying organisational priorities and implementing sustainable capacity development roadmaps.

Who Should Attend?

This Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course is designed for professionals responsible for institutional development, governance, human capital, sustainability, and strategic resource management within the energy sector.

It will particularly 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

Course Outline

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

  • On successful completion of this training course, Oxford Management Centre Certificate with eligible Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE) from National Registry of CPE Sponsor will be awarded to the delegates
  • The certificate will also include the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI) reference, and the awarded learning hours may be applied toward HRCI recertification credits.

Accreditation

HRCI Pre-Approved Training Courses
NASBA

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Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development
Duration
5 Days
Format
Classroom
Language
English
Certificate
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