Rupantaran Nepal was outsourced to conduct Training of Trainers on Climate Change Adaptation and Gender and Social Inclusion to government and non-government officials for Adaptation for Smallholder of Hilly Areas (ASHA) programme funded by IFAD and implemented by Ministry of Forest and Environment (MOFE) from January- February, 2016. The assignments were located in Salyan, Rukum, Jajarkot and Dailekh of the Karnali province of Nepal.
The main aim of the training was to strengthen and enhance knowledge and skills to deliver the same nature of training in village level and contribute to facilitate in LAPA preparation and implementation processes with integrating GESI approach effectively. In order to achieve this aim, following specific objectives were set as mentioned below:
- Describe fundamental concept of climate change, climate change science, mitigation and adaptation
- Explain major impact of climate change on six thematic areas as identified by NAPA at three different scale
- Describe local, national and global level initiatives/efforts to response major impacts climate change
- State concept of mitigation and adaptation and describe principle and its steps of local adaptation plans for actions
- Explain fundamental concept of Gender and Social inclusion and address issues in LAPA preparation and implementation process
- Describe the needs, approaches and process of Enhanced LAPA preparation
- Explain and practice different participatory tools and techniques of vulnerability and adaptation capacity assessment for LAPA preparation process.
- Explain basic principles of Training and its methods to deliver effective training.
The assignment activities were successfully completed timely. Under this assignment, Rupantaran Nepal designed a concept note including curriculum matrix and agreed with the ASHA-PCU. Based on the curriculum, RN facilitated 4 events of residential training at Salyan, Dhailekh, Kalikot and Nepalgunj (for Rukum district). Total 120 government and non-government officials were trained on the climate change, vulnerability and capacity assessment, adaptation planning and budgeting, GESI and training facilitation techniques. RN adopted participatory and learner centered adult learning approaches and methods which had provided ample opportunities to share the experiences, knowledge and skills among the participant. The duration of the training was 5 days. Based on these events, RN prepared a training manual to facilitate village level similar training by mobilizing the trained human resource.