Accredited qualifications for capacity development in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

Hemstock, Sarah L., Buliruarua, Leigh-Ann, Chan, Emily YY., Chan, Gloria, Combes, Helene J.D., Davey, Peter, Farrell, Paul, Griffiths, Sian, Hansen, Henning, Hatch, Tim, Holloway, Ailsa, Manuella-Morris, Teuleala, Martin,Tess, Renaud, Fabrice G., Ronan, Kevin, Ryan, Benjamin, Szarzynski, Joerg, Shaw, Duncan, Yasukawa, Soichiro, Yeung, Tiffany et al., (2016). Accredited qualifications for capacity development in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, 20(1), 15-34

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    Author Hemstock, Sarah L.
    Buliruarua, Leigh-Ann
    Chan, Emily YY.
    Chan, Gloria
    Combes, Helene J.D.
    Davey, Peter
    Farrell, Paul
    Griffiths, Sian
    Hansen, Henning
    Hatch, Tim
    Holloway, Ailsa
    Manuella-Morris, Teuleala
    Martin,Tess
    Renaud, Fabrice G.
    Ronan, Kevin
    Ryan, Benjamin
    Szarzynski, Joerg
    Shaw, Duncan
    Yasukawa, Soichiro
    Yeung, Tiffany
    Murray, Virginia
    Title Accredited qualifications for capacity development in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
    Appearing in Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies
    Volume 20
    Issue No. 1
    Publication Date 2016
    Place of Publication Wellington
    Publisher School of Psychology, Massey University, New Zealand
    Start page 15
    End page 34
    Language eng
    Abstract Increasingly practitioners and policy makers working across the globe are recognising the importance of bringing together disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. From studies across 15 Pacific island nations, a key barrier to improving national resilience to disaster risks and climate change impacts has been identified as a lack of capacity and expertise resulting from the absence of sustainable accredited and quality assured formal training programmes in the disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation sectors. In the 2016 UNISDR Science and Technology Conference on the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, it was raised that most of the training material available are not reviewed either through a peer-to-peer mechanism or by the scientific community and are, thus, not following quality assurance standards. In response to these identified barriers, this paper focuses on a call for accredited formal qualifications for capacity development identified in the 2015 United Nations landmark agreements in DRR and CCA and uses the Pacific Islands Region of where this is now being implemented with the launch of the Pacific Regional Federation of Resilience Professionals, for DRR and CCA. A key issue is providing an accreditation and quality assurance mechanism that is shared across boundaries. This paper argues that by using the United Nations landmark agreements of 2015, support for a regionally accredited capacity development that ensures all countries can produce, access and effectively use scientific information for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. The newly launched Pacific Regional Federation of Resilience Professionals who work in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation may offer a model that can be used more widely.
    UNBIS Thesaurus CLIMATE CHANGE
    Keyword Capacity development
    Accreditation
    Disaster risk reduction
    Adaptation
    Copyright Holder The Authors
    Copyright Year 2016
    Copyright type Creative commons
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