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CAPACITY BUILDING

At Sinfranova, we consider that capacity building is one of the core elements to help ensure long-lasting change towards a more sustainable and resilient future. As such, our workshops and training modules are customized to expand our client's capacities to incorporate sustainability in their long-term strategy and day-to-day operations. 

EXECUTIVE TRAINING

Workshops designed to expand your capacity to incorporate sustainability into your company and gain the competitive advantage that sustainability offers.

PUBLIC SECTOR

Training designed to support the decision-making process and development of new capacities of public officials and public sector representatives

ACADEMIC TEACHING

Full-term courses and guest lectures developed in collaboration with different high-level academic institutions

ONLINE WEBINARS

Free webinars regarding sustainability, existing tools and frameworks

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDG)

Sinfranova is committed to help achieve the SDGs so that all the capacity-building services provided incorporate specific references to how different groups can incorporate the SDGs within their projects and initiatives to collaborate in achieving the 2030 Agenda. 

Executive Training

Executive Training

Executive training services include:

  • Strategic leadership to incorporate sustainability in the long-term vision of your company.

  • Envision Sustainability Professional (ENV-SP) accreditation workshops.

  • Integrating the UN Sustainable Development Goals in your sustainability reporting.

Public Sector

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Public Sector

Our Public Sector training services include:

  • Strategic leadership to incorporate sustainability in the long-term vision of your company.

  • Envision Sustainability Professional (ENV-SP) accreditation workshops.

  • Integrating of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in your sustainability reporting

Academic Teaching

Academic Teaching

As part of our capacity-building efforts, our members participate in several academic courses in different academic institutions. Some of the courses include:

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  • Sustainable Infrastructure: Learning from Practice. (Spring Term 2020). Cristina Contreras, Instructor. Harvard School of Continuing Education. 

  • Sustainable Tourism, Regional Planning, and Geodesign Management. (Fall Term 2018 and 2017). Cristina Contreras. Guest Speaker. Harvard School of Continuing Education.

  • Environmental and Health Impact Assessment of International Programs. (Fall Term 2017). Cristina Contreras. Teaching Fellow. Harvard School of Continuing Education.

Online webinars

Online webinars

Some of the online webinars conducted include: 

  • Engineering for Change. Sustainable Infrastructure as a Driver to Achieve the 2030 Agenda.

  • World Bank Knowledge Platform: Turismo y Sostenibilidad, expansión del  Aeropuerto Ecológico de Galápagos (Ecuador). Aplicación de la metodología Envision®.

  • World Bank Knowledge Platform:¿Cómo cuantificar la sostenibilidad en infraestructura? Sistema de Evaluación Envision®.

Sustainable Infrastructure as a Driver to Achieve the 2030 Agenda
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Sustainable Infrastructure as a Driver to Achieve the 2030 Agenda

Sustainable Infrastructure is necessary to achieve the UN’s 2030 development agenda. It is also central in the ambitions of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming. Access to basic services such as healthcare (SDG3), education (SDG4), clean water and sanitation (SDG6) and energy (SDG7), can only be achieved by environmentally responsible, socially equitable and economically viable infrastructure projects. In this webinar, we discuss the meaning of sustainable infrastructure, the current infrastructure gap, and the different ways in which infrastructure can help achieve the 2030 sustainable development agenda. View this recorded webinar to: IDENTIFY THE FACTORS DRIVING THE NEED FOR INFRASTRUCTURE, AND HOW THEY WILL CHANGE THE INFRASTRUCTURE GAP IN THE FUTURE. DISCUSS UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES THAT NON-SUSTAINABLE PROJECTS CAN IMPOSE ON PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT. DESCRIBE TOOLS DEVELOPED AT THE ZOFNASS PROGRAM FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY TO QUANTIFY SUSTAINABILITY AT THE PROJECT AND URBAN LEVEL. Presented by Cristina Contreras Cristina Contreras is a Research Associate at the Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure at Harvard University. Her research focuses on promoting sustainable practices in infrastructure projects on a global scale, and examining the challenges and opportunities that sustainability can provide to countries and companies. During the last six years at Harvard, she has worked in research projects ranging from the coordination and supervision of the Infrastructure 360º Awards to identification of the economic implications of sustainability practice in infrastructure projects. As part of the Infrastructure 360 awards team, an initiative sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank, Cristina has worked in quantifying infrastructure sustainability in more than 40 projects (water and sanitation, transportation and energy) in 12 countries. She also works as an independent consultant for International Financial Institutions to help define a common framework for sustainable infrastructures. Before working with Harvard, Ms. Contreras served as Technical Architect practitioner in the construction of large-scale projects with a Spanish construction company, and as a freelance quantity surveyor. She has presented her work on assessing sustainable infrastructure at several international conferences and was a lecturer in the School of Civil Engineers at Polytechnic University of Madrid and instructor on the Harvard Executive Education. Ms. Contreras is an accredited Envision Sustainability Professional (ENV SP), and a certified Envision trainer as well as CEEQUAL Project Assessor.
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