As resilience programming continues to emerge globally, so does the need for stakeholders to gain a solid understanding of what resilience means and what it implies in practice. This practical certificate offers the conceptual and practical foundations needed to plan, influence and assess more effectively resilience-related programs. The skills obtained through the training will help participants to strengthen the design and potential impact of resilience projects, to improve communication of resilience outcomes, and to engage more actively in resilience strategizing. Learning will be couched in the context of international development but is equally applicable to all domains of public programming.
Registration: registration for this workshop is now open. Please download the registration form here.
- Date: Thursday October 27 and Friday October 28, 2016
- Location: Room 3222 River Building
- Time: 9 AM to 4 PM daily
- Parking: available on campus
- Fee: * Special price* until September 16, 2016 – $ 650 + HST = $ 734.50
Fees then revert to early (until September 30, 2016) – $ 750 + HST, regular $ 850 + HST and alumni: $ 700.00 + HST.
NPSIA-P&D alumni and members of the Ottawa Diplomatic Association are eligible for the alumni rate.
Objectives of the workshop include:
- Understand the concept of resilience and its role in international development and social programming in general.
- Understand the practical aspects of adopting a resilience approach in development initiatives, including challenges and opportunities.
- Gain insights into the principles of resilience thinking and the key questions needed to operationalize resilience.
- Strengthen the ability to communicate about, analyze and assess resilience initiatives.
Who should participate?
This this workshop is ideal for all public and International affairs practitioners, including public sector and NGOs involved in designing, implementing or assessing resilience initiatives, and/or in preparing and delivering information and findings related to resilience.
Our featured trainer: Dr. Angelica V. Ospina
Angelica specializes in resilience building in developing countries. She completed her Ph.D at the University of Manchester’s School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED) in the UK, where she focused her research on climate change resilience and the role of information and communication technologies in agricultural livelihoods. During her post-doctoral research she designed RABIT: the Resilience Assessment Benchmarking and Impact Toolkit, tested in Uganda and Costa Rica. Her experience includes a position as Senior Technical Advisor for Resilience at Lutheran World Relief (LWR), as well as management and implementation of applied research projects with Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), among others.