Climate change capacity building:

Disaster Risk Management for

Sustainable Development (DRM-SD)

- SE Asia & Pac SIDS -

UPMC - Session 3342

Climate Change Conference, Paris 15.00 – 16.30, 09 July 2015

Prof. K. Koshy

Centre for Global Sustainability Studies (CGSS)

Universiti Sains Malaysia

kanayathu.koshy@gmail.com

• Risk reduction for disaster

management

• Community based approaches

Training strategy

UN ISDR Risk Equation/s

Hazard x Vulnerability = Risk

Capacity

Hazard – Mitigation = Impact

Impact – Adaptation = Vulnerability

Realised Risk is Disaster

An Integrated Approach

Climate

Change

Impacts

Policy

Responses

Adaptation

Mitigation

Climate

Change

Impacts

Policy

Responses

Adaptation

Mitigation

Hazard

Mitigation

Impacts

Adaptation

Responses

Main sponsor – APN

Others – USM/APEX, SEASN

1. Workshop: SE Asia (2013; 2014-15) Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos

(Three-days) – CGSS

…development with a difference…

SE Asia Training

The KL training

Stakeholder Engagement - FGD

SE – Kampong level

SE - Schools

Adaptation Assistance

Adaptation Assistance

Promoting community based adaptation approches using life jackets, boats and emergency kits provided by the project

Main sponsor – APN

Others – USP, EWC, NIWA, NOAA, AusAID, BoM

1. Training Institute: Pac-SIDS (2004-06) Fiji, Samoa, Kiribati

(Two weeks) – PACE-SD

…to understand, anticipate and to respond…

Pacific SIDS’ Training

Community based Adaptation

Integrated Assessment & Action Methodology for

Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management &

Sustainable Development

[IAAM for CC DRM&SD]

K. Koshy, L. Limalevu et al

PACE-SD

USP

Outcome: • About 100 climate trained personnel

• Improved projects and policy skills

• Enhanced CGSS/PACE-SD CC Capacity

Lessons: • Need for continued capacity building

• Unis (USM and USP) responding with further

training and Masters programs

• Greater scope for U-SE towards SD

Outcome/Lessons…

Thank You