Organization: Goolee Institute of Research and Capacity Development
Registration deadline: 28 Sep 2016
Starting date: 03 Oct 2016
Ending date: 08 Oct 2016
Introduction
Climate change is an unprecedented threat to the livelihoods and subsequent food security of hundreds of millions of people, especially those who depend on small-scale agriculture for their livelihoods. Climate change affects agriculture and food security; and likewise, agriculture and natural resource management affect the climate system. These complex and dynamic relationships are also shaped by economic policies, political conflict and other factors such as the spread of infectious diseases. There is a need to promote a food-secure world through the provision of technology-based efforts that support sustainable agriculture and enhance livelihoods while adapting to climate change.
A GIS-based framework helps us gain a scientific understanding of earth systems at a truly global scale and leads to more thoughtful, informed decision making.
Climate change is a geographic problem, and we believe solving it takes a geographic solution, and so GIS users represent a vast reservoir of knowledge, expertise, and best practices in applying this cornerstone technology to the science of climate change and understanding its impact on natural and human systems.
For whom the course is intended
GOOLEE is offering this high impact capacity building workshop to individuals and organizations in specialized and related fields of climate, agriculture, and other livelihoods that are easily threatened by climate changes.
Duration
This is a 6 days intensive training program
Course Objectives
- Understand what climate change is all about
- Describe what causes climate change
- Understand what are the climate change scenarios
- GIS as a tool for assessing and building climate change scenarios
- Critically evaluate and discuss the adaptation, mitigation and risk management options of climate change
- Understand the UNFCCC and global perspective to climate change
- Understand the available climate financing opportunities
- To understand the basic concepts of GIS and Remote Sensing
- To understand concepts and main frameworks in Food Security Analysis, Climate Change Analysis and Agriculture
- To be able to apply GIS and Remote Sensing (RS) as Decision support tool for Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.
- To be able to use GIS information in planning Food Security interventions through spatial multi-criteria analysis
- To assess spatial data availability and understand the importance of spatial data infrastructure, for data sharing by organizations involved in Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security.
- To use mobile phones/tablets to gather data during field assessments/surveys
- To design and implement their own GIS projects that integrate remote sensing data and GPS-based field information
Course Content
- Introduction to Climate Change
- Impacts of climate change
- Addressing climate change: Adaptation, mitigation and risk management
- Climate financing
- Introduction to GIS in Climate Change
- Data collection and analysis
Course Outcomes
- Understand the basic science of climate change and how it is impacting on livelihood systems
- Acquire knowledge on what causes climate change and the change scenarios
- Use GIS as a tool for assessing and building climate change scenarios
- Critically evaluate and discuss the adaptation, mitigation and risk management options of climate change
- Understand the UNFCCC and global perspective to climate change
- Understand the available climate financing opportunities
- Develop and describe how GIS can be used to study Climate change and its consequences
- Analyze data requirements and data quality issues for climate change consequences analysis using GIS.
- Collect information and knowledge regarding GIS and climate change in an independent manner
- Use simple climate change models with provided geographical input data
- Plan and execute analysis of consequences at different levels using relevant geographical data
- Critically evaluate results from different analysis and propose suitable mitigation to reduce the negative effects.
- Present analysis results in writing and as maps.
How to register:
Interested participants should apply by email to capacitydevt@gooleeinstitute.com
Follow this link in order to fill in your registration details http://www.gooleeinstitute.com/apply.php
For further inquiries you can also call on: +254 721445293