This course is designed to help communities and their partners incorporate Climate Change adaptation considerations into their Disaster Risk Reduction planning processes and to raising community awareness of the linkages between Climate Change adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction.
Climate Change, caused by human activity, is one of the most urgent issues for Caribbean States, which are among the world’s most vulnerable to Climate Change impacts and consequences. Climate Change adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction both seek to build resilience to hazards in the context of sustainable development.
Course Date
Available on request
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face/Blended
Course Objectives/Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the main causes of global Climate Change and the likely impacts on the Caribbean region, their country and community
- Describe how Climate Change adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction are linked.
- Identify ways in which they can increase their community’s resilience to Climate Change.
- Identify and apply tools to integrate Climate Change considerations into the community’s Disaster Risk Reduction plan and develop a plan of action for Climate Change adaptation.
- Identify indicators of successful Climate Change adaptation and building of community resilience.
- Identify ways in which community members can explain the impacts of Climate Change to others, including lobbying policy makers for necessary action; and
- Access a wide range of resources to build on the skills and knowledge developed during the workshop.
Primary Audience
- Community facilitators and partner organisations who are working with community groups to develop disaster risk reduction or community development plans, such as:
- National Disaster Offices (NDOs),
- National Red Cross Societies,
- local authorities and
- private sector companies.
The course can also be used as a complement to a community development planning process to ensure that the community development plans are “climate proofed”.
Prerequisites
This training is intended for persons with some experience in facilitation and workshop design and delivery at the community level but does not assume that they have any in-depth, prior technical knowledge of Climate Change or Climate Change adaptation.
Type of Certificate
Certificate of Participation
Course Length:
Three-day training workshop, with 18.5 hours of contact time.
Training and Assessment Methodologies
- Audio-visual presentations and short introductory lectures by the facilitator
- Large group discussions (in plenary)
- Small group work and discussions
- Questioning techniques
- Brainstorming
- Practical exercises using participatory learning and action (PLA) tools
- Mapping
- Engaging participants’ creativity
- Case study
- Guiding questions for independent reflection or study
- Additional reading
Language(s)
English
Sponsors/Donors
This course was developed with the support of the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) through the Mainstreaming Climate Change into Disaster Risk Management for the Caribbean Region Project.