Ecosystem Based Adaptation Management Training

Overview

The 21st Century has witnessed the impacts of Climate Change in many sectors. Having healthy ecosystems play a significant role in providing services to adjust to climate change. Communities have always sought to protect themselves and their valued assets from natural pressures and reduce their vulnerabilities. Recently, increasing interest is being directed towards adaptation approaches that use ecosystem services to build socio-ecological resilience for extreme climatic events.

Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Management (EBAM) use various approaches for the sustainable management, conservation, and restoration of ecosystems so as to provide services that empower people to adapt to the impacts of climate change. EBAM has spearheaded initiatives that assess vulnerability, capacity building, and policy measures that have economic, environmental, social and cultural benefits that safeguard livelihood sustenance and food security, conservation of has biodiversity, sustainable water management, and disaster risk reduction, among other benefits.

Duration

5 days

Cost

The individual cost for the training workshop is USD 999 for individual participants and USD 899 for groups above 10 participants exclusive of 16% VAT. This covers the training fee, resource materials, and conference package. Participants will be responsible for their own travel expenses and arrangements, such as airport transfers (and visa application, where necessary), food and accommodation, health/accident insurance, and other personal expenses.

Intended Attendees

The target groups are government staff and development practitioners responsible for sustainable agriculture measures, watershed management and livelihoods.

Aim

This course that is delivered through interactive lectures and case studies aims to provide competency and skills to technical staff to create cutting-edge adaptation measures based on the best available knowledge and technical information.

What you will learn

Objectives

At the end of this training you will be able to:

• Explain the role of ecosystem services to respond to the adverse impacts of climate change and it can be used at multiple scales and in different sectors
• Design effective measures that help vulnerable communities adapt to climate change through the use of ecosystems and their integration into national development
• Identify interventions that reduce vulnerability and restore natural capital
• Use and integrate local and national institutional capacity development for an ecosystem management approach to adaptation

Detailed Course Description

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Entry requirements

This course has beginners and advanced modules and Seasoned Development Solutions will advise individuals appropriately after reviewing their applications.

Post-training mentorship

All graduates of Seasoned Development Solutions are provided with dedicated coaches to accompany them after graduating including receiving recent and relevant journals, research and benchmarking practices on topical issues in respective disciplines.

Registration

To register, kindly send us an email to [email protected].