Building Resilience through Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
There is no doubt that disasters in the recent past have become a major global concern and challenge. Increasing disasters are attributed to a number of factors, mainly of human origin, such as environmental degradation; rapid population increase with subsequent exponential expansion of urban centres and other related factors; all these leading to increased population vulnerabilities.
The trends of disasters are worrying in their nature, frequency and severity. It is upon this premise that plans such as Hyogo Framework of Action (2005) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015) were developed as a way of having collective and coordinated efforts to deal with the aforementioned challenges. Thus, development partners, governments and practitioners have rightly highlighted the need to prioritize mainstreaming DRR/CCA in their development and humanitarian interventions.
Course objectives:
To equip learners with skills and improve their understanding of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation (DRR & CCA) concepts with an aim to improve quality of DRR & CCA programming so that development actions can ultimately lead to increased communities resilience to common hazards such as droughts, floods etc.
Course content:
- Overview of DRR & CCA in relation to humanitarian and development actions.
- Definitions of concepts and key terminologies.
- Climate change science.
- Understanding disasters.
- Frameworks of DRR & CCA.
- Mainstreaming DRR & CCA in key development and humanitarian sectors.
- Monitoring and Evaluation for DRR & CCA.
Who should attend this training?
Programme staff of humanitarian and development agencies including project managers, officers and assistants.
What learning approach and language will be used in the training?
The entire training will be facilitated in English. A mixture of various adult-learning facilitation paradigms will be used including exploratory learning, group discussions, plenary brainstorming, facilitator’s input, case studies and video documentaries among others.
What is the cost of the training?
The training cost is US$ 700 which will cover the tuition fees, learning materials, meals and refreshments at the training venue.
Application process:
Applicants should complete the Course Application Form and send it to admin@idealphdc.org the duly filled scanned copy of the form by Wednesday 23rd March 2016
For more information, send an email to admin@idealphdc.org or call +254 (20) 2345572.