Building Capacity for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Through Mainstreaming Climate Change in Curricula of Tertiary Training Institutions in Africa Jackson Efitre, Vianny Natugonza, Laban Musinguzi, Mark Olokotum, Shamim Naigaga and Richard Ogutu-Ohwayo Abstract Climate variability and change, which intensified since 1970s, are threatening natural resources and livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa where people depend on climate sensitive natural resources, such as agriculture and fisheries, but have limited capacity to adapt. Increasing human and institutional capacity to address threats posed by climate change to natural resources and livelihoods requires building capacity to generate and disseminate information and knowledge on climate change, its impacts, adaptation and mitigation through research, edu- cation and raising awareness by tertiary training institutions. Most tertiary training institutions in Africa have curricula covering basic and applied natural resources management but most of them do not include climate change. This paper presents a training curriculum and manual that was developed to fill this gap. The purpose of J. Efitre (&) Á M. Olokotum Department of Zoology, Entomology and Fisheries Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Makerere University, 7062, Kampala, Uganda e-mail: jefitre@cns.mak.ac.ug; jefitre@gmail.com M. Olokotum e-mail: markolokotum@yahoo.com V. Natugonza Á L. Musinguzi Á S. Naigaga Á R. Ogutu-Ohwayo National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI), P.O. Box 343, Jinja, Uganda e-mail: viannynatugonza@yahoo.com L. Musinguzi e-mail: musinguzilaban@ymail.com S. Naigaga e-mail: wapsham@gmail.com R. Ogutu-Ohwayo e-mail: ogutuohwayo@gmail.com © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 W. Leal Filho (ed.), Climate Change Research at Universities, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58214-6_27 423