PROGRAM SUMMARY

From 2019-2022, Dr. Robin Cox and the Resilience by Design Lab team from Royal Roads University developed and ran a climate adaptation capacity-building program for working professionals in British Columbia, Canada.

Funded by Natural Resources Canada’s Building Regional Adaptation Capacity and Expertise (BRACE) program, and the BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, the program set out to do 3 things:

• Develop a Competency Framework for Climate Adaptation;
• Create and deliver a suite of 10 courses;
• Build a professional learning network.

As additional needs emerged during the program, they added other projects to develop a set of Open Educational Resources for all the courses, create a Micro-Credential Strategy and explore opportunities for a new, national online hub for climate adaptation.

The ten stories published here describe this work, highlight outcomes and offer lessons learned to inform future capacity-building efforts. They include digital media clips from program activities, as well as interviews with the project team, climate adaptation experts and professionals who participated in the program from across the globe.

After our final review and analysis of the achievements captured in this webbook, we’re pleased to offer our top three insights here.

• add top three lessons learned
• add infographic with metrics