Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Natural Disaster and Climate Change Risk Assessment from Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Learn about risks and safe infrastructure. Strengthen your technical skills and decision-making abilities, while integrating natural disaster risk analysis and climate change resilience into the design of infrastructure projects.

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Professional Certificate

Advanced

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Decision Making
  • Risk management
  • Project environment
  • Disaster risks
  • government
  • Climate change
  • Infrastructure
  • resistance

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Public figures
  • Infrastructure professionals
  • Team members in infrastructure projects
  • Disaster Risk Analysts
  • Infrastructure project managers
  • Infrastructure project supervisors
  • Climate change consultants
  • Infrastructure engineers
  • Researchers in the field of risk analysis
  • Experts in qualitative and quantitative assessments

Internship – a course series of 3 courses

This specialization program is intended for public officials, professionals, and team members involved in the analysis, implementation, or supervision of infrastructure projects, leading to the integration of disaster risk analysis and climate change adaptation into their projects. Over the course of 3 courses, students will enter a training process that will qualify them to:

  • Identify the key elements of natural disaster risks
  • Understand the importance of integrating risk analysis into the infrastructure project lifecycle
  • Perform qualitative and quantitative assessments to make informed decisions
  • Identify when to run each type of risk analysis
  • Assess the technical and economic feasibility of projects through qualitative and quantitative analysis
  • And finally, to produce informed recommendations for the design, construction, operation and governance of infrastructure in the context of risks and climate change.

It is recommended to take the courses in the suggested order.

Hands-on Learning Project

During the internship program, participants will have the opportunity to apply their studies in analyzing and researching various aspects of infrastructure risks through diverse practical cases. For this purpose, they will have access to trial versions of various software developed by iPresas. These software only run on computers with the Windows operating system.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Natural Disaster Risks in Infrastructure Projects

Course 1 • 5 hours • 4.4 (15 ratings)

Course Details
  • What you’ll learn
    • Recognizing the importance of integrating disaster risk analysis and climate change into infrastructure projects.
    • Recognition of disaster risk components, as well as the differences between the various types of risks.
    • Identification of different angles or levels of detail in the risk analysis perspective.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Risk Analysis
  • Category: Project
  • Category: Disaster Risks
  • Category: Climate Change
  • Category: Infrastructure

Qualitative and quantitative analysis of disaster risks

Course 2 • 14 hours

Course Details
  • What you’ll learn
    • Identify key aspects of qualitative and quantitative analysis of natural disaster risks in infrastructure projects.
    • Recognition of methodologies and tools that enable qualitative and quantitative analysis of natural disaster risks.
    • Identifying cases where qualitative and quantitative analysis of disaster risks in infrastructure projects is required.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Risk Analysis
  • Category: Disaster Risks
  • Category: Climate Change
  • Category: Infrastructure
  • Category: resilience

Decision-making and natural disaster risk management

Course 3 • 9 hours

Course Details
  • What you’ll learn
    • Identifying the principles of technical and economic feasibility of infrastructure projects.
    • Distinguishing between various quantitative indicators that exist to prioritize investments and their calculations.
    • Identifying key components of risk governance, as well as steps towards an informed public investment system.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Decision Making
  • Category: Infrastructure Projects
  • Category: Disaster Risks
  • Category: Risk government
  • Category: Project Feasibility