Community-managed disaster risk reduction courses - Kenya & Uganda

Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) and Climate Change - building capacity to mitigate impacts of hazards and climate change

July 11-15, 2011 at Naivasha, Kenya & September 26-30 at Kampala, Uganda. Online modules available

Aim:

To provide field facilitators and other senior managers with skills, concepts and guidelines to train, and deal with emerging disasters and hazards (including climate change) that may affect the outputs of their projects.

Objectives:

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Understand and apply the principles and practices of CMDRR and climate change
- Understand the relationship between disaster and development, and the solution to hazards, and why climate change is a disaster.
- Explain the importance of management interventions and strategies in CMDRR.
- Undertake monitoring, evaluation and action planning for CMDRR projects.
- To identify and analyse different types of hazards and examine community managed approaches to reduce disaster risks
- Facilitate the process of participatory risk analysis and assess the impact of major hazards like drought, floods, disease epidemics, conflict, HIV/ AIDS and other common hazards.

Topics: 

- Concepts, principles and practices of CMDRR
- Facilitating CMDRR: Methods and process
- Sustaining CMDRR
- CMDRR, to manage climate change
- Action planning in CMDRR and climate change
- Designing CMDRR and climate change projects
- Monitoring CMDRR and climate change programmes
- Climate change as a CMDRR programme

Target group:

Field managers, facilitators and senior project managers involved with DRR as well as climate change.

Method:

Experiential learning, action - oriented learning, creativity and participatory approaches will be emphasized throughout the course to help and encourage active participation, share practical experiences and practice real issues within the organizations in a fun way. Field practicum to be undertaken.

Course fee: 

$580 per participant (Residential)
$400 per participant (Day)
$200 per participant (online)

Language: English

Registration closing dates: 

June 20th for June Training
August 30th for September Training
Online registration - all year round