Community-based Adaptation Certificate Program

In this online courses participants are actually designing development projects—real projects within communities. In the courses, you will develop projects on the ground, which focuses on a community-based adaptation approach to climate change. You will also investigate the special challenges in your adaptation project and refine your project's activities. Build sustainability and impact into your project by fully engaging the community and learn how to launch, manage and hand-over a project whose impact may not be measured in years, but in decades.

COURSES

• Community Based Adaptation 1: Designing and Funding Sustainable Community Based Adaptation Projects.  Contemporary methods of developing sustainable, impact oriented projects. Gain practical field experience using evidence-based activities. Develop a real project in real-time.
• Community Based Adaptation 2: Funding Development Projects. Imbed impact into your adaptation project design with a powerful set of management tools. Log frames, detailed budgets, timelines, compelling fact sheets, a detailed schedule, M&E plans, outcomes and impact. These tools will communicate to donors and stakeholders exactly what you are trying to accomplish and can be used for effective management of the project once funded.
• Community Based Adaptation 3: The Community Focus.  What does climate change adaptation mean at the community level? What practical tools are available today for communities to use in adaptation? For practitioners who wish to begin working now at the community level to successfully adapt to the challenges that face us.
• Community Based Adaptation 4: Sustainable Implementation. How do you launch and implement a community based adaptation project? The importance of community engagement and project co-management. Developing skill sets for your community to use in the adaptation process. Learning tools: monitoring & evaluation. Community empowerment during project hand-over. Sustainability, follow-up & mentoring.

CERTIFICATE

You will receive a course completion certificate upon successful completion of each of the four courses. Upon completing the four courses you also receive a Certificate for OL 340 Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change. Read more about the certificates.

FEE

For citizens of, or people residing in developed nations: The courses are $150.00 each; therefore the four courses in the diploma program = $600.00.
For citizens and full time residents of developing nations: The courses are $100.00 each; therefore the four courses in the diploma program = $400.00.