STAFF REPORT IBD: A three-day training course on Developing Local Adaptations Plans of Action for Climate Change Resilience has recently been concluded at LEAD House, where climate change experts and participants tested a training module and a toolkit of local adaptation plan of action for its efficiency and effectiveness.
The course was attended by seven participants belonging to international non-profit organisations where experts of climate change sensitised them on various issues. The trainers were told how they could raise awareness regarding climate change and make plans to help other community-based NGOs design mitigation and adaptation strategies in their respective areas.
“This training is a pilot project and in this regard, a dry run is planned to be conducted aimed at enabling the master trainers to plan, integrate and mobilise climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies at the local level,” LEAD Pakistan CEO, Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, said in his remarks on the occaison.
Project Manager Umara Asim said that most appropriate approach in Pakistan could be a bottom-up approach in the form of an action plan which the master trainers have successfully tested during the training.