Strengthening Climate Adaptation and Resilience

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Climate change

Self-paced courses

4-5 hours

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English

The course 'Strengthening Climate Adaptation and Resilience' focuses on the importance of adaptation to climate change. The course provides a comprehensive learning pathway starting with climate change fundamentals, including climate risks and vulnerabilities assessment. Building on that, it continues with the integration of adaptation to climate change considerations into governmental planning and budgeting processes, and finally, it delves into the diverse financial mechanisms, tools, and strategies critical for effectively funding climate change adaptation initiatives.

Welcome!

On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is supporting the Pakistan government to improve the conditions for climate adaptation and resilience as well as climate risk management with a specific focus on vulnerable population, especially women.

The project “Strengthening Climate Adaptation and Resilience (SAR)” supports the entire planning cycle of climate change adaptation measures: from the preparation of climate risk assessments to the piloting of financing approaches and instruments. It contributes towards the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) as well as the Global Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Partnership, while also supporting the measures at the local level as well as upscaling through international climate finance.

In the context of the SAR project, UNITAR’s Green Development and Climate Change Unit comes to support the capacity-building component through the design, development, and implementation of this online, self-paced course on strengthening climate change adaptation and resilience. Nevertheless, the course does not provide exclusively Pakistani case studies, but also case studies from other Asian-Pacific countries and a solid core general content on climate change adaptation as one of the main pillars of the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Who should take this course?

As mentioned above, although the course was developed in the context of provision of support to the Pakistan government to improve the conditions for climate adaptation and resilience, the course is addressed to any:

  • Civil servants in planning and development departments of various line ministries such as environment, agriculture, industry, finance, development, etc., at the local and national levels, and 
  • Stakeholders from non-governmental organizations and community groups focused on climate change adaptation and resilience.

Course at a glance

The e-course is self-paced and adapted to the schedule of full-time working professionals.  The e-course is structured in three modules, with each module including several lessons.

  • Module 1: Climate Change Adaptation: the basics 
    Introduces fundamental concepts of climate change adaptation.
  • Module 2: Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Planning, Budgeting and Decision-making 
    Looks into the integration of adaptation to climate change considerations into governmental planning and budgeting processes. 
  • Module 3: Financing for Climate Change Adaptation 
    Covers diverse financial mechanisms, tools and strategies critical for effectively funding climate change adaptation initiatives.

Completion requirements

The successful completion of the course rewards the learner with a certificate. To complete the course, the learner must complete all three modules and pass each associated quiz with a minimum grade of 70% from no more than three attempts.

Partners and Contributors

The development of the e-course was funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ),  in the context of provision of support to the Pakistan government to improve the conditions for climate adaptation and resilience as well as climate risk management with a specific focus on vulnerable populations.

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