DRR/CBA/Diploma 2013 - Integrated DRR/Community-Based Adaptation/Rural Development?Online Diploma Begins January 16, 2013

Center for Sustainable Development?CSDi?Winter Quarter 2013. Join students from all over the world for an intensive series of courses that begin January 16, 2013. Get an Online Diploma: Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction, Community Based Adaptation and Rural Development.
CSDi is announcing the Winter Quarter launch of a diploma module of eight online Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Community Based Adaptation (CBA) & Rural Development field courses. These courses begin by introducing basic climate change concepts, and develop as participants identify local community vulnerabilities, identify climate change risks and hazards, investigate appropriate solutions, develop full projects, launch and manage them. A strong course component is the integration of DRR and CBA within course participant’s traditional development projects.
DRR-focused projects developed by course participants have included:
-participatory vulnerability and capacity assessments
-community-based risk identification and reduction programs
-hazard mapping
-disaster risk management
-emergency preparedness
-resilience to extreme weather conditions
-community flood resilience program; flood preparation, -response and recovery
-forming community based flood management (response) -committees
-community awareness-raising of disaster risk and response
-use of bio-engineering for slope stabilization and run-off -reduction for landslide and flash flood reduction
Complete information and course syllabi:
http://www.csd-i.org/ol-440-diploma-drr-cba-dev/
Online course participants are using our courses to develop real, on-the-ground projects with real communities?both individually and through North/South student partnerships. People from 143 different countries and over 450 organizations used CSDi online courses to develop projects impacting 275,000 people. http://www.csd-i.org/student-countries-ngos/
CSDi provides the following continuing learning resources
All learning resources and course materials are freely downloadable from the course site and include:
Scholarship opportunities for citizens of developing nations
-200 manuals & field guides of CBA activities
-300 Community Based Adaptation for Climate Change field activities
-Compilation of 50 program outlines for use in Community -Based Adaptation Projects
-Instructors that provide project consulting, suggestions, and encouragement individually for each student's assignment
Who should attend? Southern and Northern development students, field staff, grant writers, project managers, directors, and donor staff. These are online courses that have a local, in-country field component. Northern participants who don't have community access are partnered with Southern participants that do have community access.
Questions? Please contact us:
Online.Learning-AT-csd-i.org
Sincerely,
Tim Magee, Executive Director
Center for Sustainable Development
The Center for Sustainable Development specializes in providing sound, evidence-based information, tools and training for humanitarian development professionals worldwide. CSDi is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.