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: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/9636 |
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