SPOC Natural Disaster and Climate Change Risk Assessment in Infrastructure Projects
Climate change is a fact and it affects many aspects of our lives. Temperatures are becoming increasingly more extreme and natural disasters are progressively recurrent. We cannot prevent the occurrence of flood events, earthquakes, or tornadoes... But what can we do so that the damage caused has lower impacts? How can we prevent our city’s infrastructure from suffering damages and therefore put fewer people at risk? What kind of preliminar project analyses are needed so that we are prepared to face future climate change phenomena?
This course is aimed at personnel from institutions that implement projects financed by the Inter-American Development Bank and professionals with a technical profile and intermediate experience from national, subnational, and municipal entities, as well as public service providers who contribute technically to the formulation and execution of infrastructure projects.
Participation in this course is only by invitation. For more information, please email @Operations Learning Program.
Objectives
• Identify the main components of natural disaster risk.
• Recognize the importance of incorporating natural disaster risk analysis (including climate change effects) into the infrastructure project cycle.
• Carry out qualitative disaster-risk assessments to guide decision making in infrastructure projects. • Understand and evaluate quantitative disaster-risk assessments to guide decision making in infrastructure projects.
• Identify when conducting qualitative assessments is the appropriate approach and when quantitative assessments should also be carried out to perform risk analysis in infrastructure projects.
• Identify the technical and economic feasibility of infrastructure projects through a qualitative or quantitative disaster-risk analysis.
• Make risk-informed recommendations for the design, construction, and operation of infrastructures and disaster-risk-governance regarding public investment.
In this course you will have the opportunity to share your knowledge and experience with team members from other projects, solve practical cases that will help you to understand key concepts, have access to a case study in which you will be able to apply best risk management practices in a project, and much more.
This course is offered by the Inter-American Institute for Economic and Social Development (INDES) of the Inter-American Development Bank, within the framework of its Operations Learning Program (OLP). This course also supports the fulfillment of United Nations 2030 Agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals Number 9, Build resilient infrastructure, and Number 13, Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
General Competences
• Social and Environmental Management
• Risk Analysis and Management
Audience
Internal:
• Infrastructure Sector Specialists
• Employees involved in climate change adaptation and/or natural disaster risk management
External:
• Professionals from national, subnational, and municipal entities and from public service providers involved in developing or executing infrastructure projects
• Staff involved in climate change adaptation and/or natural disaster risk management
• Administrators of national public investment systems
Prerequisites
Participation in this course is by invitation
Learn more about the course
- Duration:5 weeks
Estimated Effort:6 hrs / week
Cost:No cost for the participant- Offered By:Project Learning Academy
- Subject Matter Expert:RND; ESG; CCS
- Requirements:Participation by invitation
- Language:EN; ES
- Modality:Online course with tutor