Online Continuing Professional Development Course:

Disaster Resilience, Disaster Deaths and Creative Methodology for Risk Reduction

Delivered by K2 Crisis & Resilience

with the Avoidable Deaths Network

With world-class professionals, academics and operational experts, join this two-day course on disaster resilience, reducing disaster deaths and creative methodologies for risk reduction.

The course is run by K2 Crisis & Resilience in collaboration with the Avoidable Deaths Network.

Dates: Monday 8, Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 December.

The course will run from 14:00 GMT to 17:30 GMT. All sessions recorded for participants to access.

All sessions are delivered with interactive components and opportunities for questions, and all participants receive a completion participation certificate.

Network cohorts will be formed, to boost your crisis and resilience network.

8 - 10 December 2025

14:00-17:30 GMT

09:00-12:30 EST

19:30-23:00 IST

21:00-00:30 THA

Key Benefits

By the end of the training programme you will have:

1. Developed a theoretical understanding of the components required to build resilience in an environment, organisation or business.

2. ⁠Demonstrated your skills through crisis response and other exercises.

3. ⁠Understood and developed creative methodologies for risk reduction.

4. Been invited to form a professional network of risk reduction and disaster resilience professionals, supported by the Avoidable Deaths Network.

Programme

Day 1 - Monday 8 December - Disaster Resilience

  • Disaster resilience in government and international affairs

  • Disaster resilience in international organisations (UN)

  • Resilience leadership

Day 2 - Tuesday 9 December - Disaster Deaths

  • Reducing avoidable injury

  • Disaster deaths

  • Avoidable deaths

Day 3 - Wednesday 10 December - Creative Methodologies for Risk Reduction

  • Risk reduction through art and spoken word

  • Academic theories of risk reduction

Confirmed Speakers

  • Professor Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett (University of Leicester)

  • Mr Alexander Skinner (UK Foreign Office, K2 Crisis & Resilience)

  • Mr. James D. R. Brown

  • Dr. Aminur Rahman

  • Professor Anil Kumar Gupta

  • Ms. Patience Andrew

  • Expert from Etagami

  • Dr. Winifred Ekezie

Registration

We use fair pricing according to World Bank Country Group (high income, upper middle income, lower middle income, lower income). Costs are relative to income, as this is a global course. We want to ensure it is equally accessible across different economies.

All profits will be used to fund the work of the Avoidable Deaths Network, whose members and campaigners word hard to reduce avoidable deaths in low and low-middle income countries.

Please find your country of residence and choose the correct pricing option:

Low Income Economies
£30.00

Residents of World Bank classified Low Income Economies pay GBP £30.

Residents of the following countries, sign-up on this link:

Afghanistan

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Central African Republic

Chad

Congo, Dem. Rep

Eritrea

Gambia, The

Guinea-Bissau

Liberia

Madagascar

Malawi

Mali

Mozambique

Niger

Rwanda

Sierra Leone

Somalia

South Sudan

Sudan

Syrian Arab Republic

Togo

Uganda

Yemen

Low-Middle Income Economies
£50.00

Residents of World Bank classified Lower-Middle Income Economies pay GBP £50.

Residents of the following countries, sign-up here:

Angola

Bangladesh

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Cambodia

Cameroon

Comoros

Congo (Republic of)

Côte d'Ivoire

Djibouti

Egypt

Eswatini

Ghana

Guinea

Haiti

Honduras

India

Jordan

Kenya

Kiribati

Kyrgyz Republic

Lao

Lebanon

Lesotho

Mauritania

Micronesia

Morocco

Myanmar

Namibia

Nepal

Nicaragua

Nigeria

Pakistan

Papua New Guinea

Philippines

São Tomé and Principe

Senegal

Solomon Islands

Sri Lanka

Tajikistan

Tanzania

Timor-Leste

Tunisia

Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

Viet Nam

West Bank and Gaza

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Upper-Middle Income Economies
£140.00

Residents of World Bank classified Upper-Middle Income Economies pay GBP £140.

Residents of the following countries, sign-up below:

Albania

Algeria

Argentina

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Belize

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

Brazil

Cabo Verde

China

Colombia

Cuba

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Fiji

Gabon

Georgia

Grenada

Guatemala

Indonesia

Iran, Islamic Rep.

Iraq

Jamaica

Kazakhstan

Kosovo

Libya

Malaysia

Maldives

Marshall Islands

Mauritius

Mexico

Moldova

Mongolia

Montenegro

North Macedonia

Paraguay

Peru

Russia

Samoa

Serbia

South Africa

St. Lucia

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Suriname

Thailand

Tonga

Tuvalu

Türkiye

Turkmenistan

Ukraine

High Income Economies
£270.00

Residents of World Bank classified High Income Economies pay GBP £270.

Residents of the following countries, sign-up on this link:

American Samoa

Andorra

Antigua and Barbuda

Aruba

Australia

Austria

Bahamas, The

Bahrain

Barbados

Belgium

Bermuda

British Virgin Islands

Brunei Darussalam

Bulgaria

Canada

Cayman Islands

Channel Islands

Chile

Costa Rica

Croatia

Curaçao

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Estonia

Faroe Islands

Finland

France

French Polynesia

Germany

Gibraltar

Greece

Greenland

Guam

Guyana

Hong Kong SAR, China

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Isle of Man

Israel

Italy

Japan

Korea, Rep.

Kuwait

Latvia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Macao SAR, China

Malta

Monaco

Nauru

Netherlands

New Caledonia

New Zealand

Northern Mariana Islands

Norway

Oman

Palau

Panama

Poland

Portugal

Puerto Rico

Qatar

Romania

San Marino

Saudi Arabia

Seychelles

Singapore

Sint Maarten

Slovak Republic

Slovenia

Spain

St. Kitts and Nevis

St. Martin

Sweden

Switzerland

Taiwan, China

Trinidad and Tobago

Turks and Caicos Islands

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

United States

Uruguay

Virgin Islands (U.S.)