Year: 2021
Project(s):
Gulf TREE train the trainer
Relevance
The Gulf Tools for Resilience Exploration Engine (Gulf TREE), a filter-based search engine for climate resilience tools, is an asset for stakeholders across the Gulf of Mexico who are interested in incorporating resilience into their work. However, since its release in 2018, the Gulf region's Sea Grant programs, National Estuarine Research Reserves and other outreach and extension professionals have requested advanced trainings to increase their capacity to support and encourage application of Gulf TREE within their networks.
Response
The Gulf TREE Train the Trainer series consisted of seven trainings with 88 participants and focused on different regions of the Gulf Coast. Trainings taught participants about climate resilience tools and how to find them quickly, easily and confidently, with 85% of participants feeling their access to climate resilience tools increased. Participants were tasked with multiple scenarios, all inspired by real situations, to explore independently in groups. The scenarios gradually increase in difficulty.
Results
In a follow-up survey six months after the trainings, 43% of respondents (n=9) had used their training to train others on Gulf TREE, reaching an additional 84 stakeholders; 15% (n=3) had used Gulf TREE to support their own climate resilience work; and 10% (n=2) had supported others using Gulf TREE in their climate resilience work.
Recap
Reaching sectors across the coastal climate resilience spectrum, the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant-supported Program for Local Adaptation to Climate Effects: Sea-Level Rise (PLACE: SLR) ran a series of Gulf regional trainings that increased stakeholder access to climate resilience tools, which stakeholders incorporated into their work in various ways.