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Develop the competencies to respond to and advocate for improved interventions around climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.
This is an interactive online course on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.
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RedR UK is offering a free innovative, high-quality online training course aiming to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to respond to and advocate for improved action around climate change and disaster risk reduction.
The course is contextualized to Afghanistan and uses case studies throughout to support development of DRR activities that allow for the adaptation and mitigation of the impact of climate change.
The training is a 7-week fully online course with a mix of live and asynchronous (offline) content every week, delivered on RedR UK’s dedicated e-learning platform. The course requires a commitment of around 5 -7 hours a week from participants.
The course will start on Tuesday 24th September (Detailed schedule below)
Please ensure that you will be able to able to attend all parts of the course before registering as we only have a certain number of places available.
There will be two different choices on offer for this course, depending on how you prefer to learn and your time schedules. Each week, all participants will be required to attend a live seminar (2 hours a week on Tuesdays) plus complete relevant pre-seminar work (to be done on your own time, around 3 hours a week). Participants can then choose either:
- The practical stream: attending an additional one hour practical session, where participants work in groups on a real-life scenario, putting their skills from the week into practice. This will be better suited to those who enjoy learning through doing and working in groups, and will be able to join one live session a week besides the 2-hour online seminar.
- The assignment stream: completing a written task and submitting it to the e-learning platform for feedback. This can be done on your own time within the week, and will be better suited to those who enjoy working individually, or those who will struggle to join one live online session besides the 2-hour online seminar.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Define CCA-DRR and how they can be integrated with the common goal of reducing vulnerability and strengthening society resilience.
- Describe the stages of the Disaster Management Cycle and how community-based disaster management helps to prepare people to respond to the unexpected effects of hazards.
- Develop Anticipatory Actions as part of DRR, and design Early Warning Systems' ‘last mile’ communications to enable good gender equality action before a disaster.
- Explain the Climate Risk Assessment framework, how it builds towards resilience, and how it can be applied in town planning and environmental protection.
- Explore the interconnectedness between climate change, water management and health, and discuss community practices for building local resilience within water management.
- Construct a Community Adaptation Plan for the town in this course’s case study with CCA and DRR solutions that build resilience into the at-risk community.
- Design DMC stages that include Anticipatory Actions for the town in the course's case study, and use the Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis (CVCA) tool to build towards developing a resilient Community Adaptation Plan.
Course Schedule
2-hour live seminar:
Tuesdays 4:30pm-6:30pm(UK time)/8:00pm-10:00pm (AFT)
1-hour practical session
Thursdays 4:30pm-5:30pm (UK time)/8:00pm-9:00pm (AFT)
Who should attend?
This course is designed for local humanitarian responders (e.g. local NGOs, CBOs, climate actors) to include climate related considerations into their actions within Afghanistan. The course will be delivered in English via Zoom.
How to join
If you would like to attend, please register through Eventbrite. You will receive instructions on how to join the course after registration.
HPass badge
Upon completion of the training, participants will be eligible to apply for a HPass Badge, a digital indicator of achievement and a way for participants to demonstrate their skills and experience in the humanitarian sector. You can find more information on HPass Badges here.
In case of any complaints, please email complaints@redr.org.uk
RedR UK is committed to making sure everyone’s needs are met, including people of different genders, ages and disabilities. If you have any specific access requirements or learning needs RedR UK is committed to try and make reasonable adjustments to support your needs, please email training@redr.org.uk at any stage of the booking process to talk directly to RedR UK about your needs.
Image credit: Afghan Red Crescent Society (2021)