Abstract:
The aim of this course is to enhance capacities among development actors and to support institutions in successfully implementing the Guidance and taking action on climate change adaptation. The teachings of this course provide an introduction to the theory and practical starting points of adaptation to the effects of climate change.
Training participants will learn:
- what climate change is and how it is inter-linked with development cooperation,
- where to find relevant climate information and how to use it,
- how to think through systematic steps which aim at defining concrete adaptation options at national, sector, local and project levels,
- how to define necessary institutional capacities to carry out a change process and
- how to plan and support processes of mainstreaming adaptation to climate change in their institution