INTRODUCTION
Resilient livelihoods are characterized by households that have different activities within the community that provide income, shelter, and other factors to ensure their well-being. This ensures that the society has adequate resources to fall back on in times of need.
Livelihood security can be promoted through improving diversity and security of resources, skills and technologies that are available to agricultural communities. This training event is therefore 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
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This course is intended for various actors in Agriculture Extension (Agricultural extension officers, senior agricultural officials and policy makers) working with communities, Research organizations and non-government organizations among others for Agriculture support activities and other Development programmes.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
• Gain basic skills in livelihoods resilience.
• Improve home-based livelihood opportunities for the rural poor.
• Acquire knowledge on agricultural livelihoods.
• Gain skills on cross-cutting roles in building resilient livelihoods.
• 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
Module 1: Introduction to resilient livelihoods
· Basic concepts and definitions
· Key factors impacting on livelihoods in developing countries
. Framework for livelihood analysis
· Rural livelihoods and diversity
· Determinants of livelihoods diversification
· Measuring resilience
· Resilience indicators
Module 2: Agricultural Livelihoods
· Constraints to sustainable agricultural development
· Threats to food and nutrition security
· Disaster risk reduction for food and nutrition security
· Building resilient livelihoods in agriculture
· Effects of food security threats and constraints to agrarian change and rural
development
Module 3: Cross-cutting roles in building resilient livelihoods
· Capacity development role
· Gender equity role
· Role of strategic partnerships in strengthening livelihoods
· Role of technology in enhancing livelihood support options
· Role of government and other development agencies
· Role of community participatory programs
Module 4: Climate-Smart livelihoods management and application of GIS techniques
• GIS and Remote Sensing concepts in the context of climate change
• GIS project design and setup for various programs
• Sources of GIS data for climate change
• Basic use of QGIS Software in climate change adaptation
• Integrating data from different sources into QGIS
Module 5: Data collection and analysis
• Climate change vulnerability and adaptation indicators
• Using handheld GPS devices for field data collection
• Mapping areas of climate change
• GIS as decision support tool for climate Change
• Data interpretation for preparedness and future reference
FEE & ONLINE REGISTRATION
The Training Event fee is USD $1050, this caters for facilitation, refreshments and lunch for the entire training period. Accommodation can be arranged on request at an extra cost.To registers for this event, click on this link: (Online Registration)