The program aims to develop expertise in risk reduction, increasing resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related disasters, civil protection, and safeguarding terrestrial and marine ecosystems.
Since its inception in 2007, CIMA Research Foundation has engaged in partnership and consulting activities with foreign countries to share its know-how acquired through years of research. Underlying this commitment was the awareness that it could transmit and adapt to other contexts the capabilities built for the Italian civil protection system, particularly on the system of alerting, forecasting and preventing risks from floods, droughts and forest fires. To this have been added, more recently, the themes of resilience and adaptation to climate change, in synergy, above all, with the Governace & Responsibility in Civil Protection System program.
Building on the experiences already gained in several foreign centers for emergency management, based mainly on the training and implementation of the models and platforms developed by CIMA Research Foundation, the main objective of the program is to structure an advanced capacity development process based on national and cross-national projects and characterized, among other elements, by co-design with the main beneficiaries, verification of the impacts achieved, scientific approach and the presence of an “exit strategy” that allows to consolidate and maintain effective capacities beyond the life of the project.
In addition, projects carried out by the program must have the capacity to accompany in an integrated and seamless manner all the major phases of risk management systems development and the necessary related capacity development. This implies an analysis of the implementation context (from social, scientific-technical, governance, and gender equality perspectives); the use of inclusive and participatory approaches; ongoing training and learning; and, finally, medium- to long-term monitoring of the capacity developed.