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  • Accredited qualifications for capacity development in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

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    Author(s)
    Hemstock, Sarah L.
    Buliruarua, Leigh-Ann
    Chan, Emily Ying Yang
    Chan, Gloria
    Jacot des Combes, Helene
    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
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Davey, Peter J.
    Year published
    2016
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    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 ...
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    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.
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    Journal Title
    Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies
    Volume
    20
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    http://trauma.massey.ac.nz/issues/previous.html#Vol20-1
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2016. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this journal please refer to the journal’s website or contact the author(s).
    Subject
    Environmental management
    Pacific Peoples environmental knowledges
    Clinical sciences
    Cognitive and computational psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/348944
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