Adaptation Academy: A match made in heaven
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What is better than creating a leading curricullum and professional certifaction course on Adaptation? Creating a course with the world's best and brightest. The Adaptation Academy has taken a major step in becoming the leading course on adaptation as we are in the final stages of signing a consortium agreement with the Climate Systems and Analysis Group and the SysTem for Analysis and Training (START).
This marks a major milestone for many reasons. It brings together the required skills and experience to develop and faciliate an outstanding curriculum. It shows that private-public partnerships can work and be successful, an essential of our business model.
For further details, see the Adaptation Academy website
or contact Mohamed Hamza (GCAP): MHamza@Climate
Adaptation.cc or Mica Longanecker (GCAP): MLonganecker@Clima
teAdaptation.cc
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Director's reflections
As we move into our second year, with all the excitement and challenges, we become more aware of our position in the science, research and practice community. This awareness revives a core principle we started from and shared between directors, staff, partners and client organizations. The principle of "Servant Leadership" is one that guides our work, and how we relate to each other as individuals within a growing organization. With so many voices competing for attention in the adaptation community, the test will not be who's the loudest!
Servant leadership is making sure that other people's priority needs are being met; that those served grow as people and organizations; that they become more autonomous; and that they themselves become servant leaders.
We apply this approach consciously and by design: to how we work and assign and tasks, how roles and responsibilities are distributed, in mentoring new and emerging talent, and in working with client organizations on advisory and capacity development.
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Greetings!
We celebrate our first year this month, and look forward to an exciting year ahead. Join us in building our growing team and partnerships for the future ...
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GCAP, moving forward!
After successfully completing its first year, winning over $1 Million in contracts, GCAP is excited about the year ahead. There are lots of opportunities awaiting in 2011 and we want you to be a part of it.
We are expanding and looking to increase our office space (we are moving to the centre of Oxford) and have taken on more staff. We have recently hired Malcolm Chandler as our senior project manager and our looking to take on a couple of interns over the next few months.
Plans are well advanced and partnerships are progressing: we plan to open offices in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and the US this year. We have just registered the Kenya and US subsidiaries.
The 2011 Adaptation Academy is in full swing as we finalise formal partnership agreements with both the Climate System's Analysis Group (CSAG) and the SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training (START). Kalima has come on board, offering a wealth of practical experience in Africa.
The next couple of months will be an incredibly busy exciting time for us and we look forward to making 2011 a real turning point in our development.
You can follow our current and future progress on our website. Check it out at www.climateadaptation.cc.
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People needed for USAID Project in Asia! GCAP is in the process of tendering for a USAID proposal on climate adaptation in Asia. The project focuses on building capacity and addressing information needs of eligible governments in the Asia region in accessing climate change adaptation funds and accelerating investments in initiatives that increase resilience to the negative impacts of climate change. Our approach strongly incorporates training institutions in the region, works toward a sustainable local capacity and develops a variety of learning modes to suit the needs. The USAID focal point is in Bangkok but the project will support regional activities in Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia and the Pacific that address regional-level development and environment priorities, and provide value-added support to USAID bilateral missions. The project must be designed to enhance capacity and not just to establish a USAID stamp. The three key needed positions are a training specialist, a senior climate adaptation advisor and a capacity building/adult education specialist. For a full description of the positions download the USAID Position Description document. If you or anyone you know is interested in working with us on this USAID project, please contact Tom Downing at tdowning@climateadaptation.cc and Mica Longanecker at mlonganecker@climateadaptation.cc. |
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Milestones...for the year ahead
- Double our project pipeline and continue to be profitable, enabling us to invest in growing the business.
- Continue to recruit world-leading experts with operational offices where clients demand knowledge-led services.
- Establish our Adaptation Space to deliver professional knowledge management services with our core partners including iSPACE.
- Promote the Adaptation Academy partnership with a public curriculum, long-term finance and first round of professional certification.
- Continue our work on the Economics of Climate Change:
- Publicize our growing portfolio of reports, training material and tools, building on:
- AdaptCost monograph, published for Cancun with SEI and UNEP. This analysis of the economic cost of climate change adaptation in Africa presents some of our key approaches; download the Monograph.
- Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Europe will be released by UNISDR and EUR-OPA at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in early May 2011.
- Publish the third edition of the Atlas of Climate Change. Tom Downing and Kristen Dow are in the final stages of production.
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