Cross-Sector Diplomacy: Working with NGOs and Corporates | Global Diplomacy & Leadership Excellence

$800

Course Description:

This course explores how diplomats collaborate with non-governmental organizations, private corporations, and multilateral partners to solve complex global problems. Participants will learn tools to build public-private partnerships, foster stakeholder trust, and align foreign policy objectives with corporate responsibility and civil society innovation.

Course Length:

6 weeks (36 total instructional hours)

Proficiency Level:

Advanced

Prerequisite:

Completion of a lower-intermediate ESL course or equivalent language proficiency

Course Objectives:

  • Define cross-sector diplomacy and its relevance in global affairs.
  • Analyze stakeholder roles in international partnerships and diplomacy.
  • Evaluate models for public-private and multistakeholder collaboration.
  • Develop engagement strategies for NGOs and corporate partners.
  • Assess corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its alignment with diplomacy.
  • Mitigate risks and manage expectations in diverse stakeholder settings.
  • Facilitate consensus and cooperation in high-complexity environments.
  • Negotiate partnership agreements and diplomatic memoranda of understanding.
  • Monitor and evaluate impact across sectors and policy outcomes.
  • Design a strategic cross-sector engagement plan for a foreign mission.

Description

Unit 1: Introduction to Cross-Sector Diplomacy

Explores cross-sector diplomacy models and strategic relevance.

Learning Objectives:
– Define cross-sector diplomacy and its relevance in global affairs.
– Analyze stakeholder roles in international partnerships and diplomacy.

Content: Explores cross-sector diplomacy models and strategic relevance.

Activity: Create a stakeholder map for a development or humanitarian issue.

Assessment: Stakeholder map submission and peer review.

Unit 2: Mapping Stakeholders in Global Affairs

Teaches tools to analyze and engage key actors across sectors.

Learning Objectives:
– Analyze stakeholder roles in international partnerships and diplomacy.
– Evaluate models for public-private and multistakeholder collaboration.

Content: Teaches tools to analyze and engage key actors across sectors.

Activity: Draft a public-private partnership proposal template.

Assessment: Proposal rubric and instructor feedback.

Unit 3: Public-Private Partnerships and Diplomacy

Introduces frameworks for co-creation between diplomacy and enterprise.

Learning Objectives:
– Evaluate models for public-private and multistakeholder collaboration.
– Develop engagement strategies for NGOs and corporate partners.

Content: Introduces frameworks for co-creation between diplomacy and enterprise.

Activity: Simulate a multistakeholder consultation roundtable.

Assessment: Roundtable facilitation checklist.

Unit 4: Working with NGOs and Multilateral Development Actors

Focuses on NGO capacity and coordination in the field.

Learning Objectives:
– Develop engagement strategies for NGOs and corporate partners.
– Assess corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its alignment with diplomacy.

Content: Focuses on NGO capacity and coordination in the field.

Activity: Evaluate NGO portfolios and engagement strategies.

Assessment: NGO engagement analysis report.

Unit 5: CSR and Private Sector Diplomacy Alignment

Examines CSR, ESG, and corporate policy alignment with diplomacy.

Learning Objectives:
– Assess corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its alignment with diplomacy.
– Mitigate risks and manage expectations in diverse stakeholder settings.

Content: Examines CSR, ESG, and corporate policy alignment with diplomacy.

Activity: Write a CSR alignment memo to a diplomatic mission.

Assessment: CSR memo and alignment matrix.

Unit 6: Trust-Building and Ethical Engagement with External Partners

Trains methods to build trust and equitable collaborations.

Learning Objectives:
– Mitigate risks and manage expectations in diverse stakeholder settings.
– Facilitate consensus and cooperation in high-complexity environments.

Content: Trains methods to build trust and equitable collaborations.

Activity: Facilitate a mock trust-building session among diverse actors.

Assessment: Trust-building session report and rubric.

Unit 7: Negotiation of MOUs and Stakeholder Agreements

Covers drafting, review, and negotiation of partnership documents.

Learning Objectives:
– Facilitate consensus and cooperation in high-complexity environments.
– Negotiate partnership agreements and diplomatic memoranda of understanding.

Content: Covers drafting, review, and negotiation of partnership documents.

Activity: Negotiate terms of an intersectoral MOU.

Assessment: MOU negotiation draft and scoring guide.

Unit 8: Impact Measurement and Accountability

Explores techniques for cross-sector impact monitoring and reporting.

Learning Objectives:
– Negotiate partnership agreements and diplomatic memoranda of understanding.
– Monitor and evaluate impact across sectors and policy outcomes.

Content: Explores techniques for cross-sector impact monitoring and reporting.

Activity: Design a results framework for a cross-sector program.

Assessment: Framework accuracy and clarity rubric.

Unit 9: Simulation: Cross-Sector Crisis Response Coalition

Simulates an emergency collaboration among governments, NGOs, and businesses.

Learning Objectives:
– Monitor and evaluate impact across sectors and policy outcomes.
– Design a strategic cross-sector engagement plan for a foreign mission.

Content: Simulates an emergency collaboration among governments, NGOs, and businesses.

Activity: Lead a joint task force response in a simulated regional crisis.

Assessment: Simulation participation and coordination score.

Unit 10: Capstone: Strategic Engagement Plan for a Diplomatic Mission

Students present an integrated plan for engaging non-state actors.

Learning Objectives:
– Design a strategic cross-sector engagement plan for a foreign mission.
– Define cross-sector diplomacy and its relevance in global affairs.

Content: Students present an integrated plan for engaging non-state actors.

Activity: Deliver a final plan for strategic cross-sector diplomacy.

Assessment: Capstone strategy document and oral presentation rubric.

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