Climate change adaptation
and disaster risk reduction
Free online certified training for climate responders in East Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia
We’re working with AXA XL to provide vital training.
Our flagship 6-week training course
The course comes in three versions, contextualised to three regions – East Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
It has a mix of online and offline content every week, delivered on our dedicated e-learning platform. You’ll need to commit around 5 -7 hours a week, for six weeks.
The course will equip you to:
- Describe climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, and how to incorporate these practices in your organisation’s operations;
- Discuss key factors associated with climate science;
- Describe relevant implementation and operational activities for climate change;
- Explain communication methods with stakeholders about your climate activities;
- Discuss practical climate change and DRR measures for relevant sectors, including health, agriculture and livelihoods.
Additional modules supplement the main course
- Anticipatory Action supports the humanitarian community not only to respond to extreme weather events, but to build community resilience in preparing for and predicting disaster. You’ll also understand the paradigm shift from reactive to proactive financing solutions, set triggers and thresholds, and involve the community in designing early actions. After you’ve completed the self-paced training elements, you’ll take a three-hour online training session, and a three-hour disaster simulation exercise to consolidate your learning.
- Climate Risk Assessments equips participants to assess adaptive capacities, analyse community climate vulnerability, and identify adaptive strategies and measures. You’ll take a self-paced online module followed by three hours of bitesize training.
- Ecosystem-based Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction enables learners to produce their own regeneration plan for a degraded environment.
- Locally-led and Community-based Climate Change Adaptation Strategies teaches participants the benefits of monitoring, evaluating, and learning in a Locally-Led Adaptation project.
- Climate Adaptation Finance & Proposal Development is a cross-cutting module, giving participants the skills to develop successful proposals for adaptation funding with new knowledge on climate funding mechanisms.
Please note the Anticipatory Action and the Forecast-based Financing trainings are the same session, although Anticipatory Action has an extra simulation exercise session. Choose which to attend depending on the amount of time you have, and whether you want a practical session besides a live webinar session.
Climate Proposal Writing Training
Coaching Schemes
We’ll coach nine climate professionals to develop your own risk assessment, following from the Climate Risk Assessments training, and nine professionals to develop climate-related proposals, following from Climate Proposal Writing training.
Who should join us?
We are keen to support locally-led disaster response, and so national staff from local and national NGOs are warmly invited to apply.
We strongly encourage applications from women and underrepresented groups. RedR welcomes a diverse range of applicants to the course, regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
Upcoming training dates for your calendar
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Inclusive Approaches in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction – Somalia
Develop a foundational understanding of how gender and disability intersect with climate change and disaster risk.
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Inclusive Approaches in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction – Afghanistan
Develop a foundational understanding of how gender and disability intersect with climate change and disaster risk.
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Inclusive Approaches in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction – Somalia
Develop a foundational understanding of how gender and disability intersect with climate change and disaster risk.
