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Child Centered Disaster Risk Reduction Training
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INTRODUCTION
Child centered disaster risk reduction (CCDRR) is a process to strengthen community’s resilience. Children become activists and mobilize community through influencing individuals, peer groups, and other stakeholders towards the achievement of resilience in communities in times of disaster. CCDDR complements to national action plans for children through empowering children and community as whole towards disaster risk reduction.
The training is aimed at ensuring children are put at the center of the CBDRM process which thus ensures their active participation in disaster risk reduction by allowing them to start the risk identification process while simultaneously validating their findings with adults.
TRAINING OBJECTIVES
By the end of the training, participants will familiarize themselves with among other concepts:
- Child Centered Community Development (CCCD)
- The relationship between Development and Disasters
- An understanding of CBDRR and its alignment with CCCD
- An understanding of the work process of CCDRR
- Community organization
- Institutional strengthening and alliance building on DRR
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##Gender Mainstreaming in Social Development Training##
INTRODUCTION
The training will conclusively handle issues to do with the understanding gender, gender awareness and advocacy, human rights, and gender based violence, gender analysis, integration and gender mainstreaming, leadership and governance and gender budgeting.
OBJECTIVES
- To introduce participants to basic concepts in gender
- To increase the participants’ knowledge and sharpen their skills on gender awareness, lobbying and advocacy
- To enlighten participants’ on the prevalence of gender based violence as a violation of human rights
- To improve participants’ skills in gender analysis
- To increase participants’ understanding of approaches and strategies of gender mainstreaming and integration
- To implement gender mainstreaming
- To mainstream gender into leadership and governance
- To increase participants’ knowledge on gender responsive budgeting.
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Effective Grant Proposal Writing Training
INTRODUCTION
The course provides an understanding of and practice in grant proposal writing for non-profits, foundations, and government agencies. Our online structured proposal writing course will show you how to write a proposal that gets funded. This distance learning course will teach you to prepare grants proposal effectively and find the best funding sources for your projects and non-profits.
The course is designed for both novice and experienced grant-seekers, it is a comprehensive, hands-on training that covers researching funding sources and writing award winning proposals. Other topics covered include: defining objectives, researching and getting to know the donor; how to develop a logic model; preparing budgets; and how to follow up with the donor. Further, the course will teach you how to use a standard proposal writing format, the most widely used in the world. During the course participants will search out funding sources and you will develop a proposal for your own organization or agency. Participants will leave this course with new skills and the ability to apply those skills to the needs of their own organization and community.
TRAINING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this course, participants will be able to describe and understand the basic guidelines for grant proposal writing success, why proposals are rejected, and the building blocks of a grant proposal, which include planning, writing, and submitting a proposal.
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Sustainable Local Economic Development training
INTRODUCTION
The focus of this course is on creating and managing multi-stakeholder processes that take place in the local and regional urban economy. Regions and localities are faced with two major trends in opposite directions: internationalization and decentralization. Internationalization exacerbates the interactions between the global and the local levels but operates selectively. It includes only those actors that
participate in networks in which competitiveness drives constant transformations and restructuring.
TRAINING OBJECTIVES
By the end of the training participants will have increased knowledge about SMEs and their role in the local economy. Participants will also be able to analyze the local economy and value chains in which local enterprise agglomerations and clusters are inserted and analyze policies and develop instruments that support local businesses.
##Contingency Planning Training
INTRODUCTION
Strengthening disaster preparedness at global, regional and national is critical to save lives, protect livelihoods and strengthen recovery from disasters and crises. However, significant gaps exist in the many international development systems in the coordination of disaster and emergency preparedness efforts. These can be addressed by better integrating contingency planning and business continuity planning into organization processes through establishing agreed standards and tools for multi-hazard emergency preparedness
TRAINING OBJECTIVES
The training will aid participants in the understanding of:
- What is contingency planning?
- When and how to plan
- Humanitarian reform and the cluster system
- Principles, quality and accountability
- Data collection and practical steps to prepare for planning
- Vulnerability and capacity assessment (VCA)
- Risk analysis
- Disaster impacts
- Developing scenarios
- Activation of the plan
- Management: Internal management structure, human resources (including volunteers), assessment, logistics, communications, resource mobilization (including the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund – DREF), media and information
- Coordination: Movement (including international and regional disaster management tools), government, external. Includes humanitarian reform and cluster responsibilities
- Quality and accountability: Standards; principles of response.
- Preparedness gap analysis and action plans
- Standard operating procedures (SOP)
- Early warning, alert systems and triggers
- Logistics and programme readiness
- Human resources
- Resource mobilization
- Training and simulation
- Linkages and communications
- Updating and evaluating the plan
- Evaluating during (real-time) and after the response