As climate-change is directly increasing poverty and inequalities, it is important for every organization to reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions. The aim of this online course is twofold: (1) creating understanding on why organisations (specifically Civil Society Organisations) must reduce their emissions and (2) providing useful tools and tips to reduce offices’ emissions.
Increasing Resilience is one of the three elements of CAREâs integrated approach, and is key to address the underlying causes of poverty and social injustice. This course will help you get a better understanding of CARE’s Increasing Resilience approach and how to assess resilience integration with the help of CAREâs Resilience Marker.
The aim of this short course is to familiarize participants with or remind participants of the main gender concepts and understand why gender need to be central to humanitarian and development initiatives.
Climate vulnerability assessment is a key good practice used to develop and implement successful climate-sensitive policies, plans or programs. CARE developed a series of 3 short courses that focus on the tool that CARE staff use for those assessments: the CVCA. Take this one to get a better understanding of the basics of the CVCA.
This course is the 2nd of the CVCA series. It focuses on providing you a detailed overview of the different steps of the CVCA process and will learn from other CARE team on how they have used the CVCA.
Climate change is the biggest threat of our time. But what exactly is climate change, why are we talking about a climate crisis and what is causing it? What are the effects of climate change and how is it preventing the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals? This first introduction course will answer these questions making you familiar with the concept of climate justice.
In this course on climate justice and gender justice, you will get a better understanding of how climate justice and gender justice are linked and what is needed to implement gender-transformative and gender-responsive interventions.
You want to know the differences between adaptation and mitigation but also the history and role of climate policies? This second introduction course aims to give you key information about the responses needed to address the climate crisis as well as some background information on the main climate change policy frameworks.
Do you want to know more about locally-led approaches to adaptation including CARE’s pioneer approach to Community-Based adaptation that has been piloted in more than 30 countries? CCRP has pulled together for you a 1-hour Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) 101 online course. In this self-paced training, you will get to know more about the concepts that frame CBA actions but also what it looks like in practice and how it integrates gender and ecosystems considerations.
Do you want to learn more about how NDCs can actively promote gender inclusion? This second course in the NDC series will delve more deeply into a) why gender-responsive climate policy and action is important b) how NDCs can promote gender inclusion and c) how current NDCs perform on gender. You will also be provided with examples of civil society engagement in support of gender-transformative NDCs.
Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are national climate action plans that embody efforts by each country to reduce national emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change. The aim of this short course is to provide you with an introduction to a) the NDC process b) the role of NDCs in tackling the climate crisis and c)how different crucial elements such as mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, gender, climate finance and participation are addressed within the NDCs.
Climate Information Services (CIS) is one of the key components of climate adaptation and resilience programming. Do you want to know what it entails, discover CARE’s approach to disseminate seasonal forecasts (PSP), and hear from a couple of exciting CARE CIS projects? This course is for you.
