This course provides an introduction to climate-related issues and explains how our staff and volunteers can address them in their day-to-day work with local communities. Available in English and Arabic

This self-paced, four-hour long course consists of three modules on “climate science”, “climate advocacy”, and “climate action”.

Each module includes video lectures, recommended exercises, key resources, a Q&A section, and a quiz. Available in English.

Good laws and regulations can help to save lives and livelihoods from the impacts of disasters. This course explains what types of laws are effective for disaster risk reduction. Available in English, Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish

Learn how to generate evidence about the ways in which a given area or community is already resilient to floods and how to further increase its resilience. Available in English.

We have produced guiding principles and a training toolkit for National Societies and non-governmental organisations to create new, or improve existing, community early warning systems in their countries. National Societies can also access additional resources on Fednet.

In partnership with the Climate Centre, we have produced the Climate Training Kit: an interactive set of materials to help improve climate knowledge across our global network.

The Kit answers the questions: what is climate change and what can we do about it? It includes information on important areas of humanitarian work, including technical aspects of climate risk management, climate-related policy dialogues, climate finance and much more. 

It is designed to provide innovative tools to trainers and facilitators within our Movement and within our partner organizations. The content is broken down into different modules, each one featuring presentations, games, exercises, Red Cross and Red Crescent examples and further reading.

Access the Climate Training Kit here and for support on how to adapt the Kit to your country or context, read the associated User Guide.

The Caribbean Disaster Risk Management Reference Centre has produced a training package on Community Disaster Response Teams which includes information on disaster risk management and preparedness. Discover the training package here.

Good programming and community engagement require a solid understanding of the local environment and of the role—both actual and perceived—that we play, whether we operate in a context with high levels of social instability, violence, and conflict, or more stable and predictable settings.

The Better Programming Initiative offers guidance on how to do conflict-sensitive context analysis.

Documents, including a guide for trainers, are available here.