The Climate Centre’s resilience work focuses on strengthening community resilience as a key pathway to local climate adaptation. It supports initiatives that integrate disaster risk reduction, climate change, and environmental management, such as the Partners for Resilience alliance. The Centre also contributes to international programmes like Pathways2Resilience, helping communities scale up adaptation efforts. It develops tools, resources, and training—such as the Climate Training Kit—to help organisations better anticipate, prepare for, and respond to climate-related risks at the local level.
Programme manager
Team members
Marcel Goyoneche
Marcel is a Technical Adviser working on climate and conflict, with a focus on protection. At the Climate Centre he is mainly involved with capacity building. Marcel has worked with the Chilean Red Cross, the IFRC and the ICRC. He also does consulting for other clients, mainly UN agencies.
Shaban Mawanda
Shaban has more than 13 years of experience as a humanitarian and development professional. He has led adaptation and risk reduction initiatives in the Horn of Africa and other parts of the world, while supporting country and regional projects aligning civil society activities with government strategic frameworks.