Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation and Resilience

Course Objectives

The overarching objective of the course is to provide the participants with knowledge on how climate change can be integrated into natural resources management policy, programmes, projects and other community-based climate change response actions in which the participants are or will be involved in. Upon completing the course, participants will be able to;

• Enhance participant’s knowledge on the fundamentals of climate change science
• Equip course participants with knowledge and skills in climate change adaptation and mitigation
• Train participants on approaches to build community resilience against climate change
• equip participants with a better understanding of climate change and its impacts on food security
• Enhance participant’s awareness on the challenges and opportunities in climate change governance.
• Equip participants with skills to be able to conduct stakeholder, vulnerability & resilience assessments to support decision making processes;
• Strengthen participant’s skills for stakeholder engagement, policy influencing, advocacy and negotiation to help for establishment of more effective governance structures;
• Enable participants to explore institutional arrangements needed for addressing food security and climate change linkages;
• Strengthen the participant’s capacity of planning processes to deliver climate change action
• Enhance participants understanding of the international climate change legal and policy framework and appreciate the key issues under negotiation