Fundamentals of Disaster and Risk Management
  • Type Learning
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Weeks
  • Cost Paid

Fundamentals of Disaster and Risk Management

Issued by The University of the West Indies

Fundamentals of Disaster and Risk Management is a course within the Development Management Programme. This course focuses on enhancing the understanding and use of tools in disaster risk financing, exploring the rationale of countries to have in place disaster risk financing policies and strategies. It provides a link for shock responsive social protection and a framework for building organisational resilience while developing capacity and capability in the discipline of business continuity.

  • Type Learning
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Weeks
  • Cost Paid

Skills

Earning Criteria

  • Participants must be enrolled in the Development Management Professional Education Programme and have completed the module, The Caribbean Economy. Development Management is a CPE Programme curated by The UWI Open Campus in collaboration with the Climate Resilience Execution Agency in Dominica (CREAD) to up-skill public sector officials in Dominica with the capacity to effectively manage projects and services that address the development needs of the country of Dominica.