Climate Change Adaptation and Mainstreaming for Development Professionals - Brochure

Garama’s 3-day course on Climate Change Adaptation and Mainstreaming for Development Professionals is aimed at development professionals, policy makers and planners who need to integrate or ‘mainstream’ adaptation into their work, and institutions that need to develop their own mainstreaming and climate change safeguards systems. The course provides participants with an understanding of existing and emerging methodologies including climate change screening, climate risk assessment, the identification and selection of adaptation measures, and the evaluation of adaptation. It also gives them an understanding of the wider scientific, policy and funding contexts for adaptation and mainstreaming. Through the training of key individuals, the course seeksto develop the capacity of organisations to design and implement their own climate change mainstreaming and safeguards systems to address climate change risks and opportunities in their operations.