In Partnership with:
ALGA Massive Online Open Course (MOOC)
on «Planning for Climate Change in African Cities»
Content
The Context
Objectives of the MOOC
The Modules
The Lecturers
The Teaching and Pedagogical Methods
Discussion Forum Topics
The MOOC Certificate
ALGA and its Partners invite you to jointhe MOOC
I. The Context
The Global Agendas and the African 2063 Agenda
The challenges facing the process of Decentralization, Local Governance and Local development in Africa (Urbanization)
The Vision of UCLG-Africa and its Academy ALGA
- Empowering the Members and Networks of UCLG-Africa, through
Learning, Training, Capacity Building, Networking, Benchmarking and
Knowledge and Best Practices sharing
- Making the most of the Partnership, Cooperation and Collaboration
- Using ICT to gain proximity, reduce costs, widen the circle of beneficiaries
and give the maximum chance for people in Africa to benefit from this
ALGA Training Offer
The MOOC on « Planning for Climate Change in AfricanCities » is a part of the Learning, Training and CapacityBuilding Offer of ALGA of UCLG-Africa
By joining this MOOC, participants will find out the toolsnecessary to help cities adapt to climate change in the contextof the African continent.
It was designed in 2017 in the framework of a Partnership withthe Institute for Housing and Development Studies (IHS) ofErasmus – University Rotterdam in the Netherlands
The MOOC is available on the Global Plateform
Coursera in English
With the support of the European Commission
II. Objectives
The specific Objectives of this online training offer are:
To recognize the effects, impacts and drivers of climate change in cities
To understand the drivers of urban risk and vulnerability in the context of
climate change
To distinguish the typologies, approaches and tensions of climate change
adaptation
To explain the different approaches and steps in climate change planning
To examine the decision support and assessment tools for climate
change
To develop a climate change plan based on participants’ city context
III. The Modules
The MOOC is based on 5 Modules and 5 weeks during whichparticipants will learn:
WEEK 1: Climate change and Cities
WEEK 2 : Defining and Assessing Urban Risk and Vulnerability
WEEK 3 : Climate change Adaptation and Resilience
WEEK 4: Planning for Climate Change
WEEK 5: Decision making Analysis for Climate Change
The MOOC is providing also a carefully selected set of literature,quizzes and interactive discussion forums.
IV. The Lecturers
Stelios Grafakos, Head of Urban Environment and Climate Change Group, Institute forHousing and Urban Studies (IHS), Erasmus University Rotterdam
Expert, Climate Change Adaptation, Institute for Housing and Urban Studies (IHS),Erasmus University Rotterdam
Dr. Diana Reckien, Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning andGeo-Information Management, University of Twente
Dr. Nathalie Jean Baptiste, Team Leader Climate Change and Environmental Studies,Institute of Human Settlements Studies, Ardhi University
Prof. Andy Gouldson, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
Dr. David Dodman, Director of the Human Settlements Group, International Institute forEnvironment and Development
Dr. Shuaib Lwasa , Associate Professor, Geography Geoinformatics and Climatic Sciences ,Makerere University
Mr. Marcus Mayr, Associate Human Settlements Officer, Climate Change Planning Unit,UN-Habitat
V. The TEACHING AND PEDAGOGICAL METHODS
Working hours needed for the participants : 2 to 5 hours per week
Required equipment : CLIMACT Prio runs with Microsoft Windows Office 2007 and Microsoft Excel 2007.
Videos per week
Discussion forum on the subject
Lectures recommending reading
Understanding per week
Final Peer-Assessment: Developping a climate change action plan
VI. DISCUSSION FORUM TOPICS
Discussion forum topics per week are focusing on:
WEEK 1:• Where are you from?
• The rise of environmental refugees
• What is your city’s carbon foot print?
• The UNFCC Convention
WEEK 2: • Life in Nairobi Slum
• Vulnerability and Geographies
• Climatic hazards and different social groups
• Climate departure in your city
VI. DISCUSSION FORUM TOPICS
WEEK 3:
Reactive anticipatory adaptation actions
The distribution of climate impacts
Translating the concept of resilience to the social realm
Carbon Climate Registry
Governing risk and vulnerability
WEEK 4:
Your city’s CCAP (CCAP is an integrated Urban analytics tool designed to aggregate,analyze & report disparate urban date to drive more informed and dynamic decision making)
Different climate change planning approaches
The Uncertainties of Climate change
Implementing Climate Change actions
VI. DISCUSSION FORUM TOPICS
Week 5:
Limitations of applying CBA (Cost-Benefit Analysis)
Application for CEA (Cost-Effectiveness Analysis)
Low carbon development in Kigali
MCA in your country (Multi-Criteria Analysis)
FINAL ASSESSMENT: developing a Climate Change Action Plan
VIII. THE MOOC CERTIFICATE
At the end of the Course, eachparticipant having followed completelyand carefully the Course can get theCertificate
The Cost is 40 euros (this amount will slightly vary according to currencies)
ALGA and Its Partners invite you to join
the MOOC
The MOOC on Planning for Climate Change in African Cities is available on COURSERA :
https://www.coursera.org/learn/climate-change-africa
The sign-up is free, you will need only to create a Coursera account if you wish to participate
Join also ….
- The MOOC on Financing Infrastructures in the African Cities
https://www.coursera.org/learn/financing-infrastructure-in-african-cities