Student's Training
Students' Training at MUCCRI
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MUCCRI is one of the responses to the country-wide and east Africa regional need for a well-known location for Climate Change research information, innovations, training, and outreach.
To prepare students in higher institutions of learning to adapt to some of the growing risks caused by a changing climate, MUCCRI with support from the USAID/ Uganda Education and Research to Improve Climate Change Adaptation (ERICCA) Activity trains undergraduate and graduate students from around Uganda. To support the understanding that climate knowledge can be applied in many aspects of our lives, field trips are held during trainings to locations are the country that would provide the best local examples of either mitigation or adaptation actions combating the impacts of climate change.
The 2017 internship programme will focus on smallholder farming communities susceptible to drought mainly in the following districts of Uganda; Mubende, Kiboga, Luweero, Nakasongola, Nakaseke, Sembabule, Kasese, Isingiro, Bushenyi, Mbale, Iganga, Hoima, Gulu and Lira.
The programme will be implemented through three stages:
- 1. Training; students will undergo a three-days face-to-face training in climate change and community based adaptation with focus on responses to drought.
- 2. Field-based Practicum; Students will be prepared and supported to gain practical understanding and experience with smallholder farmer communities particularly those involved in soil and water conservation.
- 3. Research; Faculty mentoring participating students will design research questions to guide the research focus of the research piece of the internship. The aim of this internship programme is two-fold. Firstly, to equip students, especially those in the final stages of their undergraduate programmes with skills and knowledge around community-based adaptation to climate change. Secondly, the internship is intended to provide an opportunity to University faculty to link teaching and research to information needs of communities involved in various climate change adaptation efforts in Uganda.
Application And Selection Criteria:
Applications are highly invited from enthusiastic final year undergraduate students with a great passion to develop a career around climate change and rural development. Recent graduates who completed their bachelor’s degree in the last one year are also encouraged to apply. Nonetheless, priority will be given to final year undergraduate students.
Bootcamps are intensive short period training which are often used to make a big movement in an issue. Bootcamps may have a number of workshops usually active/participatory sessions and training which follow a broader range of formats.
The Annual Climate Change Bootcamps bring together youths from different professionals and backgrounds, And it’s where further training is incorporated with field based learning activities in areas within Uganda so as to give an idea of how global issues related to climate change are reflected in the local environment (e.g. with deforestation, and physical impacts). This is away of building capacity of Youths first in order to understand fundamental issues related to climate change such that they can spearhead their fellow youths and communities in climate change Action.
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Student’s Conferences at MUCCRI targets to incorporate the ideas and innovations of students in the policy recommendation on mitigation or adaptation actions that combat the impacts of climate change.
MUCCRI student’s conferences are multi-dimensional involving discussions on how the students can engage in climate change adaptation, but importantly looking at ways of building long lasting, beneficial, and sustainable systems that can benefit young people while enhancing their ability to participate in climate change response actions and enhancing ecosystem resilience. The conferences play a vital role in building a stronger network among students’ participants and sharing their knowledge and ideas.
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- College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences,
- Makerere University- Uganda. East Africa
- Phone: +256 414 542 277
- Email: muccri@caes.mak.ac.ug
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