This page illustrates the introduction of ‘Development Diplomacy as an effective approach for shaping teaching and learning in higher education to build students’ competencies and skills demanded by future professional practice and society for inclusive sustainable development endeavours. The Development Diplomacy approach in education is transformative, learner-centred, competency-oriented, and practice oriented, focusing on the key sustainability competencies and skills enabling transformative change to implement the SDGs.

Thus, the required transformation of teaching and learning approaches, methods, outcomes, and educational activities, including research, are informed by applied Development Diplomacy and real-world experiences, sustained by learning platforms based on educational activities that facilitate the acquisition and exercise of competencies and skills for promoting sustainable development, and their assessment.