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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Below is a message I have just received. Those interested can enrol for free training.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Hi Chaila - Thanks for connecting.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>As a fellow environmental and GIS professional, I wanted to inform you about our massive open online course on Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace. The course focuses on the role that natural resources, environmental degradation and climate change play in conflict and peacebuilding dynamics.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>This free 8 week course starts on 11 February - and only requires 2 hours per week of time. Transcripts are available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>The video trailer is here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9synaiAb7Q&feature=youtu.be"><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9synaiAb7Q&feature=youtu.be</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>The enrollment link is here: <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/environmental-security-and-sustaining-peace-0"><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>https://www.edx.org/course/environmental-security-and-sustaining-peace-0</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>The development of this course was a major undertaking over an entire year in a genuine partnership among the SDG Academy, UNEP, UNDP, the Environmental Law Institute, and the Universities of Columbia, Duke and California (Irvine). It also reflects the combined learning from a range of other UN agencies, governments, civil society and non-governmental organizations, academics, and private sector actors. It was funded by the government of Finland together with the EC and the United Nations Development Account.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>We would welcome you to join this course as well as help get the word out to your colleagues in South Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i> <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>Thank you<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Chaila Joshua Sikasula MSc. GIS, MBA, RPAS Pilot, GPr GISc 1431<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Principal Geospatial Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'><img border=0 width=131 height=49 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D4B95C.846BE3E0" alt="Description: cid:image009.png@01D1AD20.D134EB40"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>2nd Floor, Building 1, Golder House<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Maxwell Office Park,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Magwa Crescent West<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Waterfall City<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Midrand<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>E: </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:cj.sikasula@cjandsconsultants.com"><span style='color:#17365D'>cj.sikasula@cjandsconsultants.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>T: +27110567591<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>M: +27786588439 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.cjandsconsultants.com/"><span style='color:#17365D'>www.cjandsconsultants.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>