Village Earth’s Sustainable Community Development Certificate program is a great way to train different stakeholders who may not all be in the same area, but need to be working on the same page. For example, we have had organizations and private companies send groups through our certificate program which included local community members, company employees, NGO staff, and local government officials. This is a great way to make sure everyone in your project group is working from the same development philosophy, using the same terminology, and can come to consensus on project design and M&E plans. Especially if staff and local people are located in different countries, it is a great way to train everyone together while saving on transportation and in-person training costs. And studies show, knowledge is gained and retained just as effectively from online training as it is from in-person training. Now registering for courses that begin next week, April 25, at Duke University! To explore training your group, please visit our Sustainable Community Development Certificate Online Training page.
GSLL 1514 – Challenges and Opportunities of Utilizing Traditional Knowledge in Climate Adaptation
This class will explore key concepts of resilience, vulnerability, adaptive capacity and social capital in the context of community exposure to climate change. We will engage in critical analysis of tools and methods for building resilience to climate change and will look at several case studies from around the world.