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This e-learning course will explain how risk characteristics are identified, how this information is used to assess overall risk, and how this information is used to address risk. The course is an important prerequisite to the more detailed and intensive workshop provided by the Global Practice. The course provides staff with foundational understanding and knowledge of the core concepts and ideas around Disaster Risk Management today. The interactive online format allows participants to explore:

the models and mini case histories applicable to Disaster Risk Management including the functions of the Risk, Exposure, and Vulnerability model as explained through interactive exercises and mini-case studies, as well as the different DRM products available today and how they are applied.

This e-learning course was developed with financial support from the European Union (EU) in the framework of the ACP-EU Africa Disaster Risk Financing Initiative, managed by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery.

Urbanization is the defining global phenomenon of this century. For the first time in history, more than half the world’s population lives in urban areas. Between 2000 and 2030, in developing countries, the urban population is expected to double, and entire built-up areas are projected to triple if current trends continue. This rapid demographic and spatial transformation may prove to be difficult for cities in developing countries, especially small- and medium-sized cities, where capacity is typically inadequate to cope with major urban challenges. These challenges include climate change, resource scarcity, slum growth and increased poverty, and safety and security concerns. Urban land use planning, if led by well-informed policies based on sustainable development principles and supported by well-planned and well-managed initiatives, including investments, can help address these challenges. The course aims to: ensure that participants have a functional and integrated understanding of the dynamics of urban land use; and demonstrate how to effectively utilize policies and planning instruments to manage urban growth and achieve sustainable, equitable and efficient development outcomes. The course is composed of the following modules:

• Module 1: Understanding How Land Use Planning Contributes to Sustainable Urban Development
• Module 2: Institutions, Policies and Tools for Effective Land Use Planning
• Module 3: How to Integrate Land Use Planning and Infrastructure
• Module 4: How to Manage Growth in Peri-Urban Areas
• Module 5: How to Promote Local Economic Development through Land Use Planning
• Module 6: Social Equity and Land Use Planning
• Module 7: Climate Change and Land Use Planning
• Module 8: Flood Risk Sensitive Land Use Planning

The course is prepared as an e-learning initiative, with tutor-guided discussions, exercises on strategies, programs and action plans, and self-administered tests. These elements are built into each module, which will also enable participants to share their findings with each other and receive feedback in order to build strong peer networks and a community of practice. The course features a library of case studies that illustrates good practices in sustainable land use planning from around the world.

The course will expose city officials and practitioners to cutting edge tools on vulnerability assessments, policies and programs, stock-taking and gaps analysis, and financial access. The discussion will also focus on decision making under uncertainty to identify options and establish priorities, making the city more resilient to climate change impacts and natural disasters.

This course covers vulnerability assessment tools, policy and programs stock tacking and gaps analysis, and finance access.

This series explores how humans manage and respond to risk, and the implications for development.

Risks are a part of our everyday lives. Losses from risks and missed opportunities affect everyone. In the last two decades the world has experienced international integration, technological innovation, and economic reform, but also financial turbulence and environmental damage. The fear of loss can prevent people from pursuing development opportunities, leaving many poor people trapped in poverty. However, societies that successfully adapt to risks can make dramatic gains in their living standards. In this MOOC you will explore the components of risk management (knowledge, insurance, protection, and coping), and the types of obstacles that often impair risk management and how they arise. You will become aware of the need to account for these obstacles when planning for risks, and of potential institutional solutions to overcome them.

This short course provides an overview of the approach and toolset developed by the Open Data for Resilience Initiative. Major topics covered include the rationale and practices of the open data movement, tools for sharing geospatial data, community mapping and citizen science for disaster and climate risk management, and new approaches for communicating complex risk data to a range of stakeholders.

In 2011, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) launched the Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) to apply the concepts of the global open data movement to the challenges of reducing vulnerability to natural hazards and the impacts of climate change. OpenDRI supports World Bank Regional Disaster Risk Management Teams to build capacity and long-term ownership of open data projects with client countries that are tailored to meet specific needs and goals of stakeholders. OpenDRI supports government in the creation, sharing, and use of open data.

An e-learning course that addresses gender concepts, the disparate impacts of disasters on persons based on gender, and how to design disaster risk management approaches to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment. The learning objective is to understand how your disaster risk management (DRM) projects can equally benefit women and men by addressing:

• The concept of gender, and how gender roles can affect women and men’s risk and resilience to natural hazards
• How women and men manage, respond and experience disasters differently due to gender roles and gender inequalities
• How these differences should be addressed in DRM projects to ensure that women and men benefit equally from them
• Approaches to better design projects to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment
• Case studies that shows how gender equality and women’s empowerment looks like in practice

This introductory course familiarizes development practitioners with contemporary concepts and practices in disaster management and discusses the paradigm shift from re-active to pro-active approaches in this cross cutting field of development.

Learning Objectives:

• DRM: Basic Concepts of DRM, Players and Terminology
• DRM: Prevention, Relief and Construction
• DRM: Introduction to Safer Cities, Community Based DRM and tools to Enhance Resilience

GFDRR, AASTMT and RCDRR and are offering Gender Aspects of Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction on-line course, which is a specialized course within the comprehensive Natural Disaster Risk Management Program, targeting policy makers, community leaders and disaster management professionals for sensitization in the gender aspects of disasters and post disaster processes. It also targets government officials and staff in development agencies, aid and relief organizations.

Gender mainstreaming is a key strategy to reduce inequalities among gender groups. Mainstreaming gender into disaster management strengthens the resilience of entire communities, cuts recovery time, and leads to more efficient recovery and reconstruction. It can be achieved by taking into account the needs, concerns and capacities of gender groups in planning and implementing disaster reduction and risk management activities.

The course is designed to facilitate the mainstreaming process by improving the understanding of gender concerns in disaster management. It also aims to contribute to improving knowledge of relevant policies, regulations and tools for implementing gender sensitive disaster management practices with a specific focus on disaster recovery and reconstruction. In other words, the main objective of this course is to provide a better understanding of how gender mainstreaming contributes to equitable processes and efficient outcomes in disaster management with specific focus on disaster recovery and reconstruction. It reviews the aspects of disaster management where gender concerns arise, and introduces options – policies and tools – to consider in mainstreaming gender in disaster recovery and reconstruction for better results.

Infrastructure serves a community for a long time. The decisions on infrastructure investments that are made now will have impacts over the decades and sometimes centuries to come. However, future conditions that may affect the infrastructure investment are deeply uncertain, and failure to manage these uncertainties could result in serious consequences. This new e-course describes an innovative methodology to deal with these uncertainties: Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU), and how to use it to make robust decisions for long term investments in a changing world.

The Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management Framework (CDRMF) is the introductory course of the EMI-GFDRR (Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery) NDRM web-based training package in disaster risk management. The course addresses basic questions such as “Why are disasters a development issue?” and “What are the fundamental components and processes of disaster risk management?” It also reviews the institutional arrangements and financing mechanisms of disaster risk management systems, and identifies the role of national and local actors in the processes related to risk assessment, mitigation and financing. This entry-level course targets all those who want to acquire fundamental knowledge on disaster risk management (DRM) including DRM professionals and general development practitioners. Participants will improve their competence, and will acquire the “DOs” and “DON’Ts” and how to raise awareness in and support for disaster risk reduction (DRR). The built -in learning tools of the course give an opportunity to participants to monitor their knowledge and learning progress.