Training Package:
Community Environmental Action Planning

Around the world, climate change is influencing the way societies interact with their environments. Though the vast majority of these impacts are negative, the intersections between climate, peace, and security are incredibly complicated. This training package and resource library are designed to help you – and the communities you work with – understand and respond to those connections.

Participation is a core component of good governance, at any scale. In addition to giving people greater agency over their own lives, participation helps build a fuller picture, contributing knowledge and perspectives so that policies can be as multi-dimensional and impactful as possible. Participation is a meaningful, practical way to navigate the web-like complexities of the Climate-Peace-Security nexus. 

Community Environmental Action Planning allows community members to voice their opinions, learn from each other, and shape interventions. By doing so, it builds greater buy-in for projects. Through participatory processes, parallel issues that may have otherwise been neglected – for example, pre-existing tensions, ongoing resource stressors faced by some communities but not everyone, and informal projects that aren’t widely known – can be named and incorporated into planning.

This Training Package (1) introduces concepts and tools for Community Environmental Action Planning and (2) provides worksheets and facilitation materials for its application in a variety of contexts. The Training Package is organised into six units, which follow the six stages of CEAP: Community Mobilisation, Problem Analysis, Solution Identification, Program Design, Project Implementation, and Monitoring & Evaluation. Click on the unit titles below to learn more and access training materials.

How to use this Training Package:

• • the modules are designed to complement each other, but they can stand alone, so you can explore whichever are most relevant to your needs

  • if you are new to Community Environmental Action Planning, we recommended reading each of the conceptual modules, in order, before engaging with the tools

1.1. Community Mobilisation
2.1. Problem Analysis
3.1. Solution Identification
4.1. Program Design
5.1. Project Implementation
6.1. Monitoring & Evaluation (coming soon)

• if you are a facilitator aiming to support Community Environmental Action Planning, our CEAP Process Flowchart suggests an ordered framework to organise your activities, and includes direct links to relevant tools and resources