4th Financing Climate Resilient Development

Course overview

This training course offers a structured learning platform to examine how financial systems can effectively support climate and disaster resilience across diverse contexts. Through a combination of online and in-person sessions, participants explore global and regional financing landscapes, investment pathways, and risk-informed financial decision-making. The course places strong emphasis on practical application, inclusion, and innovation, including gender-smart finance, public–private partnerships, and adaptation finance. By engaging with real-world practices and tools, participants are supported to translate financing concepts into actionable strategies for resilient and sustainable development.

Course objectives

The course aims to strengthen participants’ understanding of the evolving landscape of climate and disaster resilience financing by equipping them with practical knowledge of public, private, and international financing instruments and mechanisms. It seeks to enhance participants’ capacity to navigate global and regional frameworks, climate finance architecture, disaster risk finance, insurance mechanisms, and innovative financing approaches. The course will enables participants to integrate climate and disaster risk considerations into planning, budgeting, and investment processes while promoting inclusive, gender-responsive, and sustainable financing strategies for resilience-building initiatives.