Disasters are no longer isolated shocks. In many parts of Africa, repeated floods and prolonged droughts erode household assets before communities have recovered from the last event. When recovery programmes rebuild the same roads, schools and livelihoods in the same vulnerable locations, the next hazard undoes the investment. Governments and development partners therefore expect recovery plans to show how climate risk will be lower afterwards than before.

The Climate Adaptation Strategies for Disaster Recovery Training Course follows a recovery programme from assessment to monitoring. Participants begin with climate projections and local risk, then analyse who and what is vulnerable and why. They move on to recovery planning, sector strategies for housing, water, agriculture and infrastructure, and the institutional arrangements that keep adaptation in the plan once funding is released. A full session addresses how recovery is paid for, including national budgets, climate funds, insurance and community contributions.

Teaching is applied. Participants work with realistic scenarios, produce risk maps and sector plans, and leave with a draft adaptation-focused recovery framework for their own district, agency or programme.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Assess hazard, exposure and vulnerability using climate information and community knowledge.
• Apply the Sendai Framework and build-back-better principles to recovery planning.
• Integrate adaptation measures into housing, water, agriculture and infrastructure recovery.
• Evaluate nature-based and low-regret options against cost, feasibility and local acceptance.
• Design inclusive recovery processes that reach women, youth, older people and persons with disabilities.
• Identify financing routes for resilient recovery, including climate funds and risk transfer.
• Develop indicators to monitor whether recovery reduces future risk.

The course is aimed at people who plan, fund or deliver recovery after climate-related disasters, including:

• Disaster risk management officers in national and county governments
• Humanitarian and recovery programme managers in NGOs
• Urban and physical planners
• Civil and water engineers working on reconstruction
• Climate change and environment officers
• Donor and development partner programme staff
• Red Cross and community resilience coordinators
• Agricultural extension and food security officers

Participants leave the course with:

• A draft climate-adaptive recovery plan outline for their own context.
• A hazard and vulnerability map built with a simple, repeatable method.
• A screening checklist for testing recovery projects against future climate risk.
• Arguments and evidence for presenting resilience costs to funders and treasuries.
• A set of monitoring indicators linking recovery results to reduced risk.

The programme is scenario-driven and aimed at the decisions recovery teams actually face. It uses:

• Short expert inputs on each stage of the recovery cycle
• Field scenarios based on flood and drought recovery in African settings
• Mapping and planning workshops in small groups
• Structured peer review of each participant's draft recovery framework
• Discussion of real constraints such as funding gaps and weak coordination

On completing the programme, participants receive a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion issued by Vision Reach Global Consultancy. It is awarded to those who attend the sessions and complete the group and individual planning exercises.