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. • Institutional frameworks of DRR & CCA. • Mainstreaming DRR & CCA in key development and humanitarian sectors. • Monitoring and Evaluation for DRR & CCA.