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Title: Designing an Education and Training Framework to Build Local Capacity in Climate Change Adaptation and Low Carbon Livelihoods
Author/Creator: Fahey, S J | Dews, G | Meyers, N | Ashford, G | Verstraten, Luke
Description: This paper presents an education and training framework to build local capacity in climate change adaptation and low carbon livelihoods. A practical application is presented of capacity building among stakeholders from a group of Western Indian Ocean islands and East African coastal communities. The partner collaborators are environmental professionals leading the only internationally accredited climate change adaptation tertiary education program in Australia. The team applied a systematic planning framework in a two-phase approach modelled after the UNDP capacity development process (2008). Phase 1, the team evaluated the currency of the National Capacity Needs Self Assessment for Global Environmental Management (2005). They used the evaluation to identify the specific skills and expertise required to address knowledge and skills required to meet the goals of the Mauritius Strategy (2005). They aligned the existing local skills and expertise to those required by the Framework for the Regional Climate Change Adaptation strategy of the Indian Ocean Commission country members 2012 – 2020. The outcomes of Phase 1 include recommendations to: implement local level training programs to build capacity for climate policy development, and identify potential regional institutional and donor funding partnerships. The recommendations have implications for long term sustainability of climate change education and policy development in the Indian Ocean and other regions
Relation: 5th International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, Port-Louis, Mauritius 18-19 July 2013
Relation: http://on-climate.com
Year: 2013
Publisher: Common Ground Conferences
Subject: FoR 0501 (Ecological Applications) | FoR 0502 (Environmental Science and Management) | FoR 0602 (Ecology) | education framework | training framework | climate change adaptation | Indian Ocean region | carbon | capacity building | co-benefits approach

Collection(s): Research Publications
Collection(s): Research Publications
Resource Type: Conference Presentation

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