Syllabus Guide for CDRA

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:

• Acknowledge self-awareness on where the Philippine Legal and Policy Framework to address Climate Change and Hazards/ Disasters.

• Define and explain the concepts of climate change and natural hazards.

• Discuss differences of terminologies (risk, vulnerability, sensitivity, exposure and adaptive capacity). 

CONTENT

• Legal Framework (RA 10121, RA 9279, etc.)

• International Frameworks on CCA-DRR (Paris Agreement, Sustainable Development Goals, Sendai Framework for DRR)

• Basic concepts and definitions of climate change and hazards

• Overview and historical trends on climate change and disasters

• Different types of hazards

• Potential impacts and implications of climate change and hazards

• CCA-DRR in a Ridge-to-Reef/IEM perspective

• Risk and vulnerability framework and terminologies (IPCC, UNFCCC, UNISDR, Assessment Report 5)

• Definitions on:

  • • • Likelihood of occurrence, exposure, susceptibility, sensitivity vulnerability, adaptive capacity, etc.

      • Climate change adaptation and mitigation, disaster risk reduction and management, disaster risk mitigation

TRAINING METHODS/ MATERIALS

• Group Activity (what hazards affect your locality?)

• Group dynamics: Getting started- LGUs brainstorm on own locality regarding the climate change, hazards and their impacts in a ridge-to-reef/IEM perspective

• PowerPoint lectures

• Game on adaptation – Ex. egg game

• Quiz on terminologies and definitions

• Icebreakers related to the topics

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:

• Describe and apply  how the CCA/DRR has been mainstreamed in the CLUP Process  

• Identify the differentiation/relationship of CCA/DRR (convergence)

• Gain awareness and basic understanding on the Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment (CDRA) process

CONTENT

• Goals of incorporating CCA/DRR in the CLUP

• Concept of mainstreaming

• Mainstreaming framework for CCA-DRR into the CLUP (CDRA outputs as input to the 12-step CLUP process)

• CCA-DRR Convergence and Linkages Framework

• Overview on the CDRA Process

• Inputs and expected outputs of CDRA

• Importance of CDRA in CLUP and other local planning documents

TRAINING METHODS/ MATERIALS

• PowerPoint lectures

• Video on Climate Change in Land Use Planning, Ex. “We know enough”

• Group dynamics - Review of existing plans and other CCA-DRR related documents

• Open forum and discussions

• Video introduction on CDRA.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:

• • • Gain understanding on the existing and projected climate and hazard conditions of their locality

    • Interpret climate and hazard information provided by National Government Agencies (Collective Strengthening of Community Awareness to Natural Disasters – CSCAND Agencies)

    • Organize climate and hazard information that will serve as inputs to the CDRA 

CONTENT

• PAGASA Climate Change Projections (SRES and RCP) and interpretation

• Hazard Maps and their interpretation 

• Deterministic and probabilistic hazard maps

• Magnitude, speed of onset, susceptibility, frequency, duration and areas covered by hazards

• Scale, format and sources of hazard maps (community-based, participatory and official maps)

• Table and data requirements (hazard inventory, climate change projections, records of disasters, and hazard susceptibility)

• Validation of climate and hazard data

TRAINING METHODS/ MATERIALS

• PowerPoint lectures

• Group exercises on table preparation

• Workshop/open discussions on climate projections and hazard information interpretation

• Distribution of official and available climate and hazard data

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:

• • • Identify climate change impacts that affect and might affect their locality.

    • Determine linkages and connections between the various climate change impacts and hazards.

    • Determine data and information for risk and vulnerability assessment.

    • Identify possible policy options for climate actions. 

CONTENT

• Climate change impact chain analysis (per ecosystems, systems of interests, or sector) 

• Types of impacts:

• Primary, secondary, tertiary impacts

• Biophysical, socio-economic impacts

• Positive and negative impacts

• Climate Impact Chain Summary Matrix

• Sample climate impact chains

• Extended climate impact chain assessment for ecosystems and other slow-creeping impacts (impact chain for determining sensitivity, adaptive capacity and exposure indicators)

TRAINING METHODS/ MATERIALS

• PowerPoint lectures

• Workshop on climate impact chain analysis using metacards

• Video on the impacts of climate change, Ex. “El Gamma Penumbra dance video”

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:

• • • Develop a GIS-based exposure database that will serve as inputs to the risk and vulnerability assessments.

    • Determine additional data requirements and needs based on the review of the database and information gathered from the climate impact chain analysis.

CONTENT

• Exposure elements (Population, Urban Use, Natural Resource-based Use, Lifeline Utilities, Critical Facilities)

• Sensitivity indicators per exposure element (e.g. Population – percentage of ISF, percentage of families living below poverty threshold, etc.)

• Adaptive Capacity indicators per exposure element (e.g. Population – access to information, access to financial assistance, etc.)

• Exposure database matrices/templates

• Exposure database map requirements

• Other tools, systems and methods in aid to exposure database development (CBMS, REDAS, Climex.DB, Qlik Sense)

• Climate impact chain outputs

TRAINING METHODS/ MATERIALS

• PowerPoint lectures

• Group presentations of exposure database

• One-on-one review of exposure database

• GIS demos and trainings

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:

• • • Understand the concepts and processes of risk estimation and vulnerability scoring.

    • Determine the level of risks and vulnerabilities of the various exposure elements based on the collected data. 

    • Develop risk and vulnerability maps.

CONTENT

• Outputs and results of the previous 3 CDRA steps

• Climate and hazard information

• Climate impact chains

• Exposure database

• Risk estimation and scoring

• Likelihood of occurrence X severity of consequence

• Vulnerability scoring

• Degree of impact X adaptive capacity

• Risk and vulnerability scoring parameters (e.g. likelihood of occurrence – based on return period)

• Other risk estimation techniques (e.g. Risk Analysis Project risk estimation based on land uses and building structure type)

• GIS-based risk analysis and mapping

TRAINING METHODS/ MATERIALS

• PowerPoint lectures

• Group exercise on table preparation, scoring and analysis

• Group presentation of results

• GIS demos and trainings

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:

• • • Identify priority decision areas that shall impact the development of the city/municipality and that shall require climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction measures.

    • Summarize results into a summary matrix table.

    • Determine appropriate intervention measures and policy options based on CDRA findings.

    • Write and present CDRA outputs and results.

CONTENT

• Outputs and results of the previous 3 CDRA steps

• Climate and hazard information

• Climate impact chains

• Exposure database

• Risk estimation

• Risk reduction options

• Risk avoidance

• Risk transfer/sharing

• Risk mitigation

• Risk acceptance

• Climate change adaptation and mitigation

TRAINING METHODS/ MATERIALS

• PowerPoint lectures

• Group exercises and discussion

• Writeshops

• GIS demos and trainings

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:

• • • Mainstream climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction into the CLUP and ZO.

CONTENT

• CDRA Results

• CCA-DRR Entry points to the 12-Step CLUP Process

• Refinement of the Vision Statement

• Evaluation of Development Thrust and Spatial Strategies

• Sieve Mapping and Suitability Analysis

• Sample Format of CDRA Report/CDRA Inputs to the Sectoral Studies/Ecological Profile

• Adjusted Land Supply and Demand 

TRAINING METHODS/ MATERIALS

• PowerPoint lectures

• Group exercises and discussion

• Writeshops and Workshops

• GIS demos and trainings

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:

• • • Assess the quality of the CDRA Synthesis using a review tool 

    • Monitor the accomplishments of plans and actions (i.e. policy interventions and actions for DRR-CCA) based on indicators as indicated in the Monitoring and Evaluation Tool

CONTENT

• Review tool for CDRA

• Monitoring and Evaluation Tool

TRAINING METHODS/ MATERIALS

• Review form and checklist

• Indicators for monitoring and evaluation 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:

• • • Incorporate communications on CDRA results and the CLUP as a mandatory part of the land use planning process of LGUs.

    • Provide guidance to LGUs in communicating CDRA results and intervention measures to stakeholders for resilience building.

CONTENT

• CDRA Communication Plan Guideline 

TRAINING METHODS/ MATERIALS

• Template for CDRA Communication Action Plan

• Sample CDRA IEC materials