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

Hemstock, Sarah L. and Buliruarua, Leigh A. and Chan, Emily YY and Chan, Gloria and Jacot des Combes, Helene and Davey, Peter and Farrell, Paul and Griffiths, Sian and Hensen, Henning and Hatch, Tim and Holloway, Ailsa and Manuella-Morris, Teuleala and Martin, Tess K. and Renaud, Fabrice G. and Ronan, Kevin and Ryan, Benjamin and Szarzynski, Joerg and Shaw, Duncan and Yasukawa, Soichiro and Yeung, Tiffany and Murray, Virginia (2016) Accredited qualifications for capacity development in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, 20 (1). pp. 1-19. ISSN 1174-4707

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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.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (PACE-SD)
Depositing User: Fulori Nainoca - Waqairagata
Date Deposited: 02 Mar 2017 04:38
Last Modified: 17 Oct 2019 20:59
URI: http://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/9636
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