CARE developed a series of 3 short courses courses that focus on the tool that CARE staff use for those assessments : the Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis (CVCA) tool. CARE’s CVCA tool gathers and analyzes information on community-level vulnerabilities to and capacities for climate change. The 3 courses proposed are :

CVCA #1 - The Basics of CVCA (this course)

CVCA #2 - The CVCA Step-by-Step

CVCA#3 - CVCA and Gender Equality (to be released soon)

We recommend you to take them in the proposed order.

In this first course on the basics of CVCA, you will get a better understanding of:

• the importance of participatory vulnerability analysis processes
• the process proposed in the CVCA handbook 
• the objectives and uses of the CVCA
• the added value of the CVCA compared to other climate vulnerability assessment tools
• the main changes brought to the 2nd edition published in 2019.