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Kenya: Community-Managed Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Building Resilient Communities

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Country: Kenya
Organization: International Institute of Rural Reconstruction
Registration deadline: 30 Sep 2018
Starting date: 15 Oct 2018
Ending date: 19 Oct 2018

Communities around the world, especially in Africa, are facing a serious of challenges towards establishing sustained progress due to the changing climate patterns. Farmers and pastoralists in Africa, who are experiencing delayed rains, work hard to bridge the gaps of food insecurity by adapting new ways. Rainfall variability and drought in many parts of Africa are some of the manifestations of climate variability. Indeed, climate change is happening and felt by communities. Equally, HIV and AIDS epidemic and famine are pressing communities threatening to drive them to the verge of disaster. Efforts of many development agencies face major setback if communities are not able to cope, and if risk is not reduced, hence the occurrence of disasters. Therefore, an approach that would safeguard the accumulated years of development gains is relevant. Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) and Climate Change Adaptation is an approach that shows the relationship between disaster, climate change and development, offering amicable solutions.

CMDRR refers to building people’s capacity to prevent and mitigate the impact of hazards and reduce the degree of vulnerability of communities at risk through increased individual survivability and community readiness. Building resilient communities, therefore, means strengthening the foundation of safety and also enhancing disaster risk reduction measures so as to fully attain resilience against any impending hazards. Disaster solely happens when the foundation of safety is weak and disaster risk reduction measures are not in place. Climate Change Adaptation is a response to climate change that seeks to reduce the vulnerability of social and biological systems, including human populations, to climate change effects. Thus, this course on Community-Managed Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation for Building Resilient Communities is designed to respond to the call of the time.

IIRR-Africa takes lead in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), with projects already implemented in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, and South Sudan.

Training period: 8 days

Training objective

The overall objective of the training is to strengthen capacities of the trainees to mainstream community managed disaster risk reduction concepts, principles and practices in the planning and implementation of community development efforts in their respective organizations.

Expected outcomes

The training is designed to achieve the following outcomes

  • Enhanced knowledge and skills of the trainees on the philosophy, concept and principles of CMDRR and CCA.
  • Built capacity to work with community members to initiate, develop, and implement community owned and managed disaster risk reduction (DRR) plans throughout the project areas.

Course requirements:

To be able to qualify for graduation, the trainees need to complete the following requirements:

o Attend all the face to face training sessions

o Take part in classroom individual and group activities

o Take part in the field practicum

o Present report of the field practicum findings back to the group

Course Structure

Delivery of this course will be highly participatory, combining presentations, plenary discussions, small group work exercises, focus group discussion, case stories and field practicum. Handouts will be provided to the participants whereas a field practicum will be incorporated to offer hands-on practice of participatory community risk assessment and planning.


How to register:

Email training@iirr.org


Kenya: Innovating Writeshop for Documentation of Impact

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Country: Kenya
Organization: International Institute of Rural Reconstruction
Registration deadline: 31 Oct 2018
Starting date: 12 Nov 2018
Ending date: 16 Nov 2018

IIRR pioneered the writeshop methodology and has been using it to build the capacity of organizations by promoting learning and reflection. There is growing pressure on development organizations to show evidence of their works. This requires systematic documentation, packaging and dissemination, which are weakness of many development organizations. Innovating Writeshop for Documentation of Impact is given as a five-day training program by IIRR.

There are mainly two reasons that necessitate writeshops:

  1. For project or organizational learning to improve performance, results and impact

  2. For wider sharing or mainstreaming of experiences and knowledge and in networking and cooperation among the different development stakeholder groups beyond the local or project setting.

The writeshop is a participatory process that brings together staff, facilitators, project partners and community members together with facilitators, editors and design specialists under one roof or a tree shade to produce simple, user-friendly materials in a short period of time.

This training program is designed to capture, distill, peer review, and widely share lessons of evidence from the field. It builds on the experiences of various actors involved in a project or program implementation to come together and document their change stories from the field and share widely with their communities, institutions, donors, local government collaborators and other stakeholders.

By the end of the training program, participants are expected to have improved their writing and analytical skills; have enhanced capacity to capture evidence from their work; have improved their confidence in conducting their own writeshops. They will also be able to polish draft cases they will bring to the writeshop and develop an action plan.

The training program will focus on the following learning outcomes:

  • Participants use written and oral communications to tell community-relevant stories and explain complex situations, helping them act as facilitators of change processes at the community level.
  • Participants can analyze information and reach their own evidence-based conclusions.

  • Use facilitation skills, consensus building, peer reviews and the promotion of respectful dialogue

  • Identify issues that are relevant to the community, and frame them in feasible projects and programs

  • Utilize a variety of evidence bases, and develop collaborative work plans with partner groups

  • Deliver effective presentations to general and specialized audiences

  • Articulate and defend the significance of community projects

  • Write effective reports, from meeting minutes to grant proposals

COURSE OUTCOMES

Training participants are guided on the writeshop methodology, which will enable them to efficiently organize, facilitate and manage the pre-production, production and post-production requirements of the desired document. The writeshop will enable them to consolidate experiences by compiling resources, reference materials, and stories of best practices.

By the end of the course, participants are expected to have:

• Improved their writing and analytical skills

• Acquired basic skills and capacity in producing written materials

• Appreciated the roles and responsibilities of all writeshop players

• Improved their confidence in conducting their own *writeshop*s; and

• Improved knowledge to replicate/share learning from the course


How to register:

Email training@iirr.org

United States of America: Design for Humanity Summit

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Country: United States of America
Organization: International Organization for Migration, Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs
Registration deadline: 21 Jun 2018
Starting date: 22 Jun 2018
Ending date: 22 Jun 2018

www.design4humanity.com

The Design for Humanity Summit, hosted by the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs and the UN Migration Agency, will explore the intersection of design and humanitarian action for dignified crisis response.

Prominent humanitarian and design professionals will discuss current best practices and generate human-centered design strategies that address contemporary humanitarian challenges. Through cross-collaboration of both sectors, this initiative aims to drive humanitarian response in a more dignified, inclusive, and sustainable direction.

Topics to be explored during the Summit will include:

  • Public interest design and design thinking for inclusive humanitarian response
  • Transformation of camps into sustainable cities and communities of resilience for host and displaced communities
  • The nexus of private sector and innovation in humanitarian response
  • Art, architecture, and design for human rights advocacy
  • Design for protection of at-risk populations in humanitarian crisis
  • Sustainable design to mitigate the effects of acute and protracted urban crises
  • Innovative prototypes of new humanitarian design trends

Through bridging their areas of expertise, both humanitarian and design professionals can more effectively design dignified and durable solutions that tackle today’s most pressing humanitarian challenges. Whether ensuring more dignified shelters and settlements for displaced persons, designing more inclusive and resilient urban ecosystems or employing art and design as a vehicle for advocacy - the possible synergies between design and humanitarian action are endless.

The Design for Humanity Summit is made possible with the support of the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations, the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation and Fordham University. Community partners include ART WORKS Projects for Human Rights, InterAction and the American Society of Interior Designers.


How to register:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/design-for-humanity-summit-tickets-45209285189#tickets

World: Migration Series: The Role of Diaspora in Humanitarian Response

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Organization: International Organization for Migration
Country: World

This event came at a critical time when the international humanitarian system was facing an unprecedented number of crises, compelling the humanitarian community to come up with new and innovative ways to meet the growing needs of affected populations around the world. At the same time, calls to engage the diaspora in humanitarian action are grounded in this shifting humanitarian context, where humanitarians are looking to involve a multitude of stakeholders for a more sustainable and effective response. Given that diasporas are already involved in humanitarian relief and post crisis recovery, this event looked at the key questions to be considered in order to best engage the humanitarian community and diaspora groups to improve joint humanitarian responses, such as on humanitarian principles, types of crises, and perceptions of local communities and governments. This event, which helped feed into the World Humanitarian Summit, also critically examined both the potential positive and negative aspects of diaspora engagement in humanitarian response.

Please see the invitation here, the background paper here and the agenda here.

Please see the summary of the event here, which was submitted to the World Humanitarian Summit.


How to register:

Find the recording of the session here:http://unofficeny.iom.int/migration-series-role-diaspora-humanitarian-response

Italy: Psychosocial interventions in migration, emergency and displacement - VIII edition

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Organization: International Organization for Migration, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Country: Italy
Registration deadline: 02 Apr 2019
Starting date: 01 Jul 2019
Ending date: 13 Jul 2019

The Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy & the International Organization for Migration (IOM) are offering the summer course:

"Psychosocial Interventions in Migration, Emergency and Displacement" - VIII Edition

Pisa, Italy, 1-13 July 2019

Key facts:
Location: Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, main campus, Pisa (Italy)
Time commitment: 12 days, Monday-to-Saturday, 8hrs per day on average, full time
Working language: English
Scientific Board: Prof. Andrea de Guttry (Scuola Sant'Anna), Prof. Guglielmo Schininà (IOM Geneva), and Prof. Renos K. Papadopoulos (University of Essex)
Faculty: will include academics, renowned experts and practitioners with considerable field and research experience.
Available places: max. 40, of which 20 reserved for IOMers and 20 chosen through public selection.

Course description

The psychosocial approach responds to the threats brought by disruptive events, or predicaments of life to the notion of individual, group and collective identity. For this reason said approach proves especially useful in situations where individual, group and community identity and roles are questioned, challenged, annihilated, in need for reconstruction-readjustment, as is the case of migration and displacement forced by wars, disasters, collective socioeconomic vulnerabilities, and return. That is why psychosocial activities have become an indispensable component of humanitarian responses to emergency displacement.

Yet, a non-harmonized approach to and understanding of psychosocial support tend to characterize those interventions.

The course will provide a given frame of understanding of the psychosocial dimension of migration, displacement and crisis-affected societies, as well as of the processes within the migration cycle of vulnerable groups, all while presenting harmonized ethics, approaches and tools associated with psychosocial support.

The course will enable participants to acknowledge the complexity of MHPSS Interventions in crisis situations or during the migration process, conceptualize holistic responses, understand the interrelation of the different sectorial responses and gain advanced specific knowledge in each sector of intervention.

Contents
The course will consist of about 90 hours: sessions will be spread over 2 weeks, from Monday to Saturday for an average of 8 hours per day, in a residential fashion. The content will be divided into the following didactic modules:

  1. Epistemology, systems, international standards, legal framework, theories.

  2. Tools and standards for psychosocial consideration in basic services and security, including: IASC standards, psychological first-aid, inductions for general humanitarian workers, MHPSS considerations in Camp management and urban settings.

  3. Tools and standards for psychosocial considerations in family and community supports, including: IASC standards, family and systemic approaches, community messaging, community mobilization, rituals and recreation, sports interventions, social theatre, small scale conflict management.

  4. Tools and standards for psychosocial focused services: including counseling methods, systemic approaches, family counseling basics, arts-therapies.

  5. Understanding of specialized services: including protection for individuals with pre-existing disorders and the ones living in institutions, trauma and attachment, clinical responses to special needs.

Target group

The Course is open to psychologists, social workers, educators-teachers, medical doctors and psychiatrists, nurses, applied artists (e.g. dance therapists), humanitarian workers, emergency experts, development workers or similar, who meet the following minimum requirements:

• Have at least a 3 years University degree or equivalent in relevant disciplines, issued by a University institution or equivalent.

• Have at least 2 years of work experience in a related field.

• Have a proficient working knowledge of English.

Knowledge of any other language and/or any further relevant training, voluntary or professional experience would be an asset. Relevant publications are also an advantage.

Methodology
The Course has a practical orientation and relies heavily on case studies to enhance participants’ skills and abilities to effectively provide psychosocial support. Practical exercises will include advanced role-playing and simulations. Ample space will be devoted to testimonies and considerations drawn from the personal experience of trainers and participants.

Contact
E-mail: altaformazione@santannapisa.it

For additional info please visit: https://www.santannapisa.it/it/formazione/psychosocial-interventions-emergency-and-displacement


How to register:

Application and selection process:

The application deadline is 2nd April 2019

IOM candidates

20 places will be assigned by IOM to qualified IOM professionals/consultants following an internal selection process.**
Interested IOM candidates shall refer directly to their Office **for applications and selection criteria, or contact: gschinina@iom.int and NGALLO@iom.int

All other candidates

20 placeswill beassigned by the Scuola to qualified candidates following a public selection.

Applications shall be submitted ONLINE AT:http://www.santannapisa.it/psycho19/application/

Philippines: Defining Outcomes: Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

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Organization: International Institute of Rural Reconstruction
Country: Philippines
Registration deadline: 05 Jul 2019
Starting date: 05 Aug 2019
Ending date: 11 Aug 2019

This course is grounded on IIRR’s decades-long experience doing participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning in Asia and Africa. This course is suitable for planning, monitoring and evaluation officers, program officers, project managers, research and extension officers, community facilitators, and advocacy workers.

Course Description

This course examines participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning (PMEL) as a support to program/project management and sustainability. PMEL is a strategy that strengthens participation,
enhances local capacity, and increases local people’s confidence and control over development
decisions and processes.

Drawing from a range of significant experiences, this course also highlights key elements that enrich the PMEL process and system. You will be equipped with tested methods, tools, and techniques.

Objectives

By the end of this course, you shall have:
• articulated the rationale of PMEL within the context of paradigm shifts in development work;
• acquired knowledge and skills in engaging communities and co-designing monitoring and
evaluation framework with them;
• reflected on the application of PMEL within the context of your own organization, program, or
project, and
• identified ways to improve your current practices in monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

Methodology

This course will use participatory methods to stimulate learning and facilitate discussions and sharing processes. You will do case analysis, small group exercises, and field work. You will spend 1-2 days with select organization members where appropriate tools may be used.

Module 1. Overview of PMEL and Organizational Learning
This module presents concepts and principles of PMEL and the theoretical underpinnings of participatory approaches. It includes discussion of elements that support the establishment and maintenance of PMEL in the context of development organizations.

Module 2. Participatory Approaches, Toolsand Methods
Program sustainability is linked to participation and ownership of stakeholders. This module focuses on different participatory approaches, methods, and tools that can be employed to effectively engage communities to be active actors and learners during the project period and beyond.

Module 3. Designing and Facilitating PM&E
This module will look into strategies in designing measurement frameworks with communities. Local actors must have a good understanding of the value of the PMEL process and the requirements in implementing it. Your facilitative role in the entire process and the necessary attitudes and skills to make PMEL possible are emphasized.

Module 4. Action Planning
You will analyze your own organization/program/project situation and needs and apply key lessons
learned from the course. You are expected to implement this when you return to your respective
organizations/programs/projects.


How to register:

Apply now

Send your requests for application to: education.training@iirr.org

Philippines: Engaging Communities for Climate Change Adaptation Actions for Food and Livelihood Security

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Organization: International Institute of Rural Reconstruction
Country: Philippines
Registration deadline: 09 Aug 2019
Starting date: 09 Sep 2019
Ending date: 15 Sep 2019

This course is grounded on IIRR’s decades-long experience in Asia and Africa addressing food security at the household level using regenerative agricultural approaches. This course is suitable for people working in the field of agriculture, nutrition, natural resource-based livelihoods, and climate change adaptation.

Course description

Climate change has a considerable impact on the food security and livelihoods of rural communities. Effective and sustainable interventions are linked to the engagement of stakeholders in identifying risks and possible actions. Small holder agriculture and family farming are now recognized as important platforms for delivery on scale.

This course introduces basic concepts, emerging trends and issues, and facilitation strategies that
address challenges brought by climate change. You will engage with practitioners of well-proven
innovations that increase the resilience of rural communities against climate risks. You will be
introduced to participatory approaches through field visits to rural areas where community-based
adaptation processes are practiced.

Objectives

By the end of this course, you shall have:

  • Gained understanding of basic concepts, principles, and approaches to sustaining natural resource-based livelihoods, and household food security and nutrition;
  • Increased awareness on the risks and vulnerabilities posed by climate change to food security and livelihoods;
  • Gained skills and knowledge in participatory approaches that manage food security risks and vulnerabilities; and
  • Identified innovative approaches for improving their respective food security and livelihood initiatives.

Methodology

This is a field-based and experiential learning with minimal classroom discussions. At least 4 learning sites will be visited where you can interact with farmers, researchers, extension workers, and innovators.

Module 1. Basic Concepts: Climate ChangeAdaptation, Resilience, Food Security andNutrition
Key concepts and relevant development frameworks will be discussed to broaden analysis of current challenges. This will provide you with a solid conceptual basis when partnering with communities to tackle climate change issues.

Module 2. Engaging Communities inClimate Change Adaptation Work
You will be exposed to participatory approaches in innovation development and community planning like participatory technology development, participatory action research, and community adaptation planning. Process of setting up climate smart villages, which IIRR has championed, will be discussed thoroughly.

Module 3. Managing Challenges andBuilding Resilience
Discussions include farming systems and proven technologies that help sustain agriculture economies like enterprise diversification, which increase farm resilience. Scaling and sustainability
approaches will be discussed. Communities’ access to resources for resilience building can
be widened through collaboration with different stakeholders.

Module 4. Action Planning
You will prepare an action plan that synthesizes lessons learned from the course and translate
these into actions that will improve your climate change programs/projects. Facilitator(s) will
ensure that action plans are based on the your field realities and organization and program thrusts.


How to register:

Apply now

Send your requests for application to: education.training@iirr.org

Myanmar: Climate-Smart and Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture: Delivering on the New Challenge

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Organization: International Institute of Rural Reconstruction
Country: Myanmar
Registration deadline: 13 Sep 2019
Starting date: 14 Oct 2019
Ending date: 20 Oct 2019

This course uses an innovative “roving workshop” methodology developed by IIRR in the 1990s and tested in Guatemala, Kenya, Cambodia, and the Philippines. This time, the course is set in Myanmar where IIRR, in partnership with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Canada and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), has established climate-smart villages in four different agro-ecological and socio-cultural settings. This course is intended for professionals in the government, non-government organizations, and private sector working on agriculture, food security, and nutrition programs.

Course Description

This course enables you to learn and reflect on strategies that make agriculture responsive to the
nutritional needs of families and to the changing environment. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA)
concepts facilitate the development of innovations and adaptation measures, taking into consideration local capacities and resources. Nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) concepts and approaches ensure that agriculture programs generate food security and nutrition outcomes at the household level. You will also be introduced to the the concept of Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs), which raises the awareness of farming communities on CSA’s technological, institutional, and policy options that can increase their resilience and productivity while reducing environmental foot prints.

Objectives

By the end of this course, you shall have:

  • Gained thorough understanding of CSA and NSA concepts, principles and relevant approaches;
  • Recognized the issues and impact of climate change to agricultural systems and rural communities;
  • Acquired knowledge of participatory approaches in engaging communities to participate in community-based adaptation process; and
  • Learned adaptation practices implemented in CSVs in 2 agro-ecological zones in Myanmar.

Methodology

This is a field-based learning with minimal classroom discussions. Learning sites in Myanmar will be visited where you can interact with farmers, researchers, and innovators.

Module 1. Understanding Climate SmartAgriculture and Nutrition SensitiveAgriculture Concepts
The links between the development process, food insecurity and undernutrition, and the environment will be examined through conceptual frameworks. The role of agricultural systems in meeting the nutritional needs of families and communities will be explored.

Module 2. Designing Programs andEngaging Communities for CSA/NSA Work
You will have an overview of participatory approaches useful in enhancing and designing food security and nutrition innovations and programs in consideration of climate change challenges. You will visit CSVs to be exposed to different agricultural systems and to interact with farmers/innovators and researchers.

Module 3. Sustaining and Scaling CSA/NSAPrograms
Different pathways to strengthen, sustain and scale up innovative CSA/NSA programs will be discussed. You will identify ways to utilize evidences to infl uence government policies and
mainstream within the wider development sector.

Module 4. Action Planning You will prepare an action plan identifying food security programs/activity taking into account your national or community’s food security context to strengthen people’s resilience in coping with threats to food security. Climate change adaptation and mitigation measures are to be integrated in the action plan.


How to register:

Send your requests for application to: education.training@iirr.org


World: World Humanitarian Summit: Online briefing and consultation on trafficking in persons in times of crises

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Organization: International Organization for Migration, Caritas, Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection
Country: World

On 18 June 2015, PHAP hosted an online briefing and consultation in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Caritas Internationalis on "*Trafficking in persons in times of crisis*" in support of the World Humanitarian Summit.

This event featured:

  • A discussion and Q&A with Dr. Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children
  • A presentation of the findings of the research carried out by IOM on the manifestations and responses to trafficking in persons in times of crises in the MENA region, with a focus on Iraq and Libya
  • A presentation of the action research on trafficking in persons in conflict and post-conflict situations carried out by Caritas
  • The possibility for participants to provide their views on how humanitarian action can better meet the challenges related to trafficking in persons in emergency contexts

Event description

Human trafficking is a complex crime against human beings – a severe human rights violation. It is constituted of three key elements: the act (recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons), the means (coercion or threat in order to have control over a person), and the purpose (exploitation). Exploitation may take various forms: sexual exploitation, labour exploitation, forced begging, organ removal, slavery and slavery-like practices. These three elements need to be connected to be able to define this phenomenon as trafficking in persons. In the case of children, only two (act and purpose) out of the three elements need to be present to be able to define trafficking.

In the middle of an armed conflict – as much as in a natural disaster – migrants, displaced people, other mobile groups, host communities and specific groups or individuals, including women, children, adolescents and ethnic minorities are often the victims of these phenomena. Crises tend to exacerbate pre-existing exposure to risks, threats, abuse and exploitation and introduce new risks and threats. Human trafficking is indeed one of them, taking various forms before, during and after the crisis; but in specific instances still, certainly profiting from the crisis to flourish and remain unpunished .

From November 2014 to May 2015, IOM has conducted research on the manifestations (and responses ) of human trafficking in the contexts of ongoing regional crises in Iraq (including also the impact of the Syria crisis) Libya and Tunisia as part of a global effort of structuring a response to human trafficking and prevention of exploitation of mobile populations in times of crises. IOM has collected best practices from past and on-going humanitarian responses in Haiti, Philippines, Nigeria and most recently Nepal.

Likewise, since January 2014, Secours Catholique-Caritas France, a member of Caritas Internationalis, has coordinated a research-action to study trafficking in conflicts in the Euro-Mediterranean region including a qualitative analysis of forms of trafficking among refugees and other affected people in conflict and post-conflict situations. Caritas members from Albania, Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Turkey, Lebanon and France have participated in the research-action.

IOM and Caritas wish to share their research findings but also engage in a consultation with humanitarian practitioners to discuss how to comprehensively respond to human trafficking in times of crises. This event builds on an onsite discussion on the same topic organized as a side event during the Human Rights Council in Geneva in June 2015.

Watch or listen to a recording of this event


How to register:

Read more at phap.org/whs-18jun2015

Myanmar: Climate-smart and Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture: Delivering on the New Challenge

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Organization: International Institute of Rural Reconstruction
Country: Myanmar
Registration deadline: 30 Sep 2020
Starting date: 20 Oct 2020
Ending date: 25 Oct 2020

The course is set in Myanmar where IIRR, in partnership with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Canada and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), has established climate-smart villages in four different agro-ecological and socio-cultural settings: Chin Shakta, Delta Ma Sein, Shan Nyaung Shwe, and Dryland Htee Puu. This course is intended for professionals in the government, non-government organizations, and private sector working on agriculture, food security, and nutrition programs. This course uses an innovative “roving workshop” methodology.

BACKGROUND

Malnutrition and hunger continue to afflict children and adults alike in developing countries affecting their growth, development and productivity. Undernutrition within the critical period of growth, if not address causes serious short- and long-term consequences to child’s development. Access and availability of nutritionally-dense food, which support nutrition, are threatened by environmental changes that are taking place. The agriculture sector continue to suffer from climate change impacts. Thus, the implementation of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) concepts are appropriate in today’s context. CSA concepts facilitate the development of innovations and adaptation measures, taking into consideration local capacities and resources. Moreover, the course will feature practices by local farmers who are already implementing adaptation practices. NSA concepts and approaches ensure that agriculture programs generate food security and nutrition outcomes at the household level. You will also be introduced to the concept of Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs), which raises the awareness of farming communities on CSA’s technological, institutional, and policy options that can increase their resilience and productivity while reducing environmental foot prints.

OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course, participants shall have:
• Gained thorough understanding of CSA and NSA concepts, principles and relevant approaches;
• Recognized the issues and impact of climate change to agricultural systems and rural communities;
• Acquired knowledge of participatory approaches in engaging communities to participate in community-based adaptation process; and
• Learned local adaptation practices implemented plus CSVs in different agro-ecological zones in Myanmar.
COURSE CONTENT
Module 1. Understanding Climate Smart Agriculture and Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Concepts
The links between the development process, food insecurity and under nutrition, and the environment will be examined through conceptual frameworks. The role of agricultural systems in meeting the nutritional needs of families and communities will be explored.
Session 1: Trends on Food Security, Nutrition and Climate Change in Myanmar
Session 2: CSA and NSA Concepts

Module 2. Designing Programs and Engaging Communities for CSA/NSA Work
You will have an overview of participatory approaches useful in enhancing and designing food security and nutrition innovations and programs in consideration of climate change challenges. You will visit CSVs to be exposed to different agricultural systems and to interact with farmers/innovators and researchers.
Session 1: Building Social Capital

Session 2: The Climate-Smart Village Approach

Session 3: Methods & Tools in CSV Work

Module 3. Sustaining and Scaling CSA/NSA Programs

Different pathways to strengthen, sustain and scale up innovative CSA/NSA programs will be discussed. You will identify ways to utilize evidences to influence government policies and mainstream within the wider development sector
Session 1: General Concepts on Scaling Up and Scaling Out
Session 2: Pathways to Scaling Up and Scaling Out
Module 4. Action Planning

You will prepare an action plan identifying food security programs/activity taking into account your national or community’s food security context to strengthen people’s resilience in coping with threats to food security.Climate change adaptation and mitigation measures are to be integrated in the action plan.

VENUE
Mandalay Region and Shan State, Myanmar
COURSE FEE

USD1,500.00 per participant (inclusive of board, lodging, airport transfers, and conference materials)
REGISTER NOW! Contact us

education.training@iirr.org I +63 46 419 8600 I +63 917 869 6213


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