GREENducation Philippines

The Ateneo Institute of Sustainability, through its Climate and Disaster Resilience Program, is piloting activities in a playbook we developed, CResT (City Resilience Toolkit: A Compendium of Systems Thinking Activities for Resilience Planning). Systems thinking 🔁 approaches are useful in enhancing resilience by uncovering feedback and hidden structures that might affect a resilience issue, fostering dialogue, and helping articulate coherent storylines to achieve intended futures. 💬

Climate change 🌏 presents great challenges, particularly to developing countries in the Global South. Communities such as those in the Philippines will face increasing vulnerability to climate risks and their effects as a result of a lack of adaptive capacity, particularly where urban development is informal or unplanned. In the spirit of collaboration, we would like to open an opportunity for colleagues across sectors to participate in a two-day workshop based on selected activities in CResT. 💭

📣 We are opening limited slots to a 2-day systems thinking workshop based on selected activities on resilience planning from CResT. The workshop will be held on 29-30 May in Ateneo de Manila University, and is free of charge.

🔗 Register by May 16 via go.ateneo.edu/ST2025Registration

Limited slots only!

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CResT was developed as part of the Coastal Cities at Risk in the Philippines: Investing in Climate and Resilience Project, with the aid of a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, and implemented by the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), in collaboration with the Manila Observatory (MO), Ateneo Innovation Center (AIC), and the National Resilience Council (NRC). The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of IDRC or its Board of Governors.

Additional support was also provided by the Ateneo Institute of Sustainability and the Ateneo de Manila University Research Council.

This workshop continues the knowledge dissemination process from the project, providing participants with valuable tools and strategies for building resilient cities.