ALBATROSS Training for Trainers Program – Call for participants

Smallholder farmers, pastoralists, fishers, and other resource-dependent groups face mounting threats to food security, water availability, and economic stability. Urban households are similarly exposed to flooding and heat stress, underscoring the urgency of building resilience across diverse contexts.

Traditional coping mechanisms are increasingly inadequate in the face of the scale, intensity, and frequency of climate shocks. Addressing these challenges requires combining local and traditional knowledge with evidence-based innovations to better understand climate impacts and design context-specific responses. Strengthening this integration is central to sustainable adaptation.

The ALBATROSS project, through its Capacity Building and Training Strategy, has developed a comprehensive Training for Trainers (TfT) program across seven Climate Resilient Development (CRD) hubs in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar and South Africa. This initiative bridges critical knowledge gaps by equipping trainers with practical skills to guide communities in applying resilience-building approaches.

At the core of the program are two complementary pillars: Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Climate Services (CS). NbS harness the protective and regenerative functions of ecosystems, offering sustainable alternatives to purely engineered infrastructure. Climate services provide communities with timely scientific data and forecasts to inform proactive decision-making in farming, grazing, fishing, and urban risk management. 

By decentralizing expertise through CRD hubs, the TfT program ensures these tools move beyond academic papers or policy documents into practice, being applied in fields, forests, and fishing grounds.

The TfT program is organized into five webinar sessions. The first session will focus on:

• Understanding NbS,
• NbS in spatial planning, and
• Case study on the application of nature-based climate adaptation in the Guinean forests of West Africa

More information on the presenters and the topic: Info - Training for Trainers

To register to the webinar: Register

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