What? An 8-week, self-paced training program in designing an adaptation to climate change project working in partnership with local community members. By the end of the 8 weeks, you will have designed a project complete with evidence based activities. You will have written a project logframe in preparation for the next course—OL 342—where you will develop a full set of donor documents in preparation for funding.
Learn by doing.
This hands-on training course is for actually launching a community based adaptation to climate change project. For example, student projects have included efforts to help communities in Yemen, Morocco, Tanzania and Afghanistan recover from challenges caused by global warming: unprecedented droughts that exhausted their water resources. Other students have helped communities in Suriname, Kenya, Nepal and Pakistan recover from flooding. The course will lead you through the development of similar, real projects, in real time, in your own country.
How? A dual approach will be used in this course:
1. The course will lead you through the development of a real project, in real time, and leave you with the practical field tools to sustain it. We are committed to achieving results-based sustainable development goals.
2. For long-term sustainability you will learn to incorporate community identified need into the design of your project and research project activities that have shown evidence of having worked at solving challenges.
Who should take this course?
1. This course is perfect for nonprofit and development professionals working in adaptation in areas such as food security, watershed management, agriculture, the environment, sustainable development, or DRR—and who want to develop practitioner-level skills. If you are a grant writer, nonprofit staff member, consultant, project manager—or an executive director—you will develop real skills mastery.
2. This course is just as relevant to a person considering a career transition into the nonprofit/development world and wanting to develop employable skills.