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. ⁠Developed an understanding on disaster deaths with attention on injury deaths and avoidable disaster deaths.

4. Understood and developed creative methodologies for risk reduction.

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

Trainers

The course will be delivered by world-class professionals, academics and operational experts from India, Japan, Nigeria, UK and USA, including:

·         Professor Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett – Professor, Risk Management and Associate Director, Institute for Environmental Futures (IEF), University of Leicester; Founder President and Convenor, ADN

·         Dr. Hideyuki Shiroshita – Associate Professor, Disaster Mitigation and Safety Education, Kansai University; Founding President, ADN

·         Mr. Alexander Skinner – Director, K2 Crisis and Resilience; Former UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Global Affairs Canada (GAC)

·         Mr. James D. R. Brown – Disaster Response and Humanitarian Assistance Specialist; UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination Team; Visiting Lecturer, Disaster Response, UK Universities

·         Mr. Tom Mecrow - Senior Evidence Manager, Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)

·         Professor Anil Kumar Gupta – Full Professor, Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation Strategies, ICARS, Indian Institute of Technology – Roorkee; Principal Editor, Disaster Resilience and Green Growth

·         Ms. Patience Andrew – Historian, Spoken Word Poet and Radio Broadcaster; Founder, Custodians of African Literature (COAL)

·         Dr. Winifred Ekezie – Epidemiologist and Lecturer, in Public Health; and Director at the Centre for Health and Society, Aston University; ADN

·         Ms. Shoka Stonelake – Japanese Art Instructor, Stonelake School

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 work hard to reduce avoidable deaths in low and low-middle income countries.

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