Introduction
This training event is intended to enable households, communities and countries build resilience so as to strengthen their ability to manage change by maintaining or transforming their living standards in the face of shocks or stresses without compromising their long-term prospects.
Duration
5 days
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
• Gain basic skills in livelihoods.
• Improve home-based livelihood opportunities for the rural poor.
• Acquire knowledge on agricultural livelihoods.
• Gain skills on cross-cutting roles in building livelihood resilience.
• Develop and describe how GIS can be used to study climate change and its consequences.
• Apply GIS as a decision support tool for climate change, agriculture and food security.
• Assess spatial data availability and understand the importance of spatial data infrastructure, for data sharing by organizations involved in; climate change, disaster reduction, agriculture and food security.
Course Outline
Introduction to livelihoods
Agricultural Livelihoods
Cross-cutting roles in building livelihood resilience
Climate-Smart livelihoods management and application of GIS techniques
Data collection and analysis
EVENT DETAILS AND ONLINE BOOKING
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