Since 2015, when it launched its Regional Internship Programme, CCRIF has been offering internships to latest college graduates and postgraduate college students from the Caribbean, who’ve earned levels in areas resembling catastrophe threat administration, environmental administration, geography, civil engineering, or local weather research, at regional and nationwide organizations. This yr, CCRIF has positioned 27 interns in 10 organizations throughout the Caribbean. CCRIF has invested over US$530,000 to assist 198 internships over the past 9 years.
Host organizations for CCRIF interns this yr embrace amongst others: the Anguilla Division of Catastrophe Administration, Workplace of Catastrophe Preparedness Trinidad and Tobago (ODPM TT), Tobago Emergency Administration Company (TEMA), Turks and Caicos Islands Airports Authority (TCIAA), Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), CCRIF, and varied departments and centres from The College of the West Indies. Since 2023, CCRIF has been collaborating with non-governmental organizations that CCRIF has labored with below its Small Grants Programme. Two NGOs from Trinidad and Tobago – Carbon Zero Institute of Trinidad and Tobago (CZITT) and IAMovement –are a part of the Internship Programme this yr. That is the twond yr that IAMovement has been collaborating within the programme. Some 24 organizations (and 12 centres and departments at The UWI) have participated within the programme over time.
Interns are positioned in host organizations for 10 weeks between July and December annually. CCRIF gives these interns with month-to-month stipends in addition to lodging, journey insurance coverage and return airfare to those who journey to host organizations outdoors their dwelling nation.
Immediately, CCRIF’s Regional Internship Programme is among the largest internship programmes within the Caribbean for areas associated to catastrophe threat administration, meteorology, environmental sustainability, and local weather change adaptation.
CCRIF’s internships are designed as a core part of scholars’ educational {and professional} journeys, performing because the intersection of the 2. Via internships, college students develop into actively engaged with the ideas and theories that they be taught within the classroom, which they’ll put into follow in an expert setting.
All CCRIF interns, together with a number of different younger individuals within the area, additionally profit from a CCRIF-UWI on-line summer time course in catastrophe threat financing, for which they obtain an official certificates and a pair of persevering with training items.
The 2024 interns are engaged on a spread of initiatives, together with amongst others:
- Conducting analysis and improvement actions to assist the World Meteorological Group (WMO) Extreme Climate Forecasting Programme for the Japanese Caribbean – on the Caribbean Meteorological Group.
- Supporting the event of an e-learning platform centered on climate-smart agriculture to supply assets for farmers and different stakeholders – at CZITT.
- Evaluating infrastructure to make sure that city planning and improvement contribute to the general resilience of cities in opposition to climate-related hazards – at ODPM TT.
- Designing and implementing ‘Automated Public Climate Forecast Templates’ to scale back the time required to provide correct and informative forecasts – at TCIAA.
- Supporting the replace of the Particular Wants Database and Implementation Plan and aiding with the execution of plans for the Worldwide Day for Catastrophe Danger Discount – at TEMA.
- Assessing rain gauge measurements compared to satellite-derived precipitation estimates over the island of Jamaica – at The UWI Division of Geography and Geology, Mona.
- Conducting a feasibility research on creating a consortium of all English-speaking universities within the area that supply postgraduate programmes associated to the constructed surroundings – on the College of Expertise, Jamaica.
The CCRIF Regional Internship Programme is a part of CCRIF’s wider Technical Help (TA) Programme which was launched in 2010 – three years after the Facility was established – and operates because the Facility’s company social duty programme, additional underscoring its worth proposition as a improvement insurance coverage firm.
