International Internships for Climate and Society - ID:141
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Project Description The twelve-month MA Program in Climate & Society trains professionals and academics to understand and cope with the impacts of climate variability and climate change on society and the environment. This project enables international internships in climate risk management for students in this program, through a partnership with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), facilitated by the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre. Through these internships, MA students are able to help bridge the gap between information service providers and IFRC decision makers to integrate climate science into risk management.
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Goals and Objectives Goal:
To provide support for up to a total of 12 students over two years (2009-2010) to complete an international internship (8-10 weeks) with an IRI partner institution. These interns are to help the IFRC improve its capabilities to both respond to an prepare for disasters by:
- reviewing the climate and weather monitoring and forecasting tools available and identify gaps in climate information use in each partner region
- finding ways to incorporate forecasts and other climate information into IFRC decision making
- understanding the structure and decision-making processes of the IFRC so that these tools can be tailored to the organization's specific needs
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Outputs - Each intern will complete an internship report
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Available Outputs The Access and Use of Climate and Weather Information in the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies: Initial observations from the field
Written for the WCC3 by Lisette Braman, Technical Advisor to the RC/RC Climate Centre, this is a synthesis of reports, presentations and contributions of the following 2008-2009 IRI/Climate Centre/IFRC interns from Columbia University's Climate and Society Masters Program: S. Abdelrahim, J. Arrighi, L. Braman, N. Cook, M. Daly, A. Jina, B. Kahn, C. Kopcik, M. Mwangi, U. Qadir, J. Sharoff, A. Tall, and C. Thomson.
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