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INTRODUCTIONThe devastating impact of disasters events has increased three-fold in a twenty-year period from the 1970s. The resulting economic losses have increased fivefold. Communities all over the world are facing serious challenges towards establishing a sustained development due to the effect of the changing climate patterns. Climate and disaster risks have become a major and urgent challenge of our time to human security ecological and developmental and which may worsen food insecurity, poverty, the spread of HIV/AIDS, forced migration and conflict.

Disasters will continue to undermine development progress and change the environments in which we live. Along with structural causes, disasters have profoundly worsened due to societal neglect of their true causes.

Government Development organizations as well as NGO sector have widely in need of knowledge and tool to enhance their climate smart and disaster risk reduction initiatives to ensure it can help to withstand and bounce back from any eventualities. This course provides relevant and useful knowledge on disaster risk reduction and skills on facilitating learning to other stakeholders.

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVESAt the end of the course, participants should be able to:

� define the different terminologies use in the realm of DRM and DM.� identify the different models of disaster risk management and disaster

management.� describe the process of disaster risk management� demonstrate the risk assessment process� develop and list effective DRM strategies and system based from the

result of risk assessment��describe and list the institutional requirement to be effective and efficient

in DRM.� identify the process of monitoring and evaluation system that would

measure progress DRM initiatives� identify enabling environment that would scale up the DRM initiatives.� demonstrate the process of training design development and session

plans and delivery.� list essential skills for effective learning facilitators of DRM

COURSE PARTICIPANTSThe participants who are to benefit from the course are:

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The course will accept not more than 25 participants.

COURSE METHODOLOGIESThe course content focus on Africa and will maximize participants experience to further enhance learning.

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The course will be facilitated by well-experienced and internationally recognised resource persons from leading regional agencies involved in disaster risk management.

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COURSE CONTENTThe course is divided into the following four modules:

Module 1 Concepts and Models of Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management

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