Building Resilience into the Profession, One Credit at a Time
By channelling CD-CRI training through the Pakistan Engineering Council's Continuing Professional Development framework, KnK Japan is helping make climate-resilient practice a permanent part of engineering in Pakistan.
A CD-CRI presentation on why risk persists in Pakistan's public infrastructure systems.
Photo: KnK Japan
A central ambition of CD-CRI is that its methods should outlast the project itself. To achieve that, KnK Japan is working with the Pakistan Engineering Council to deliver Structural Health Assessment training through the PEC's Continuing Professional Development (CPD) framework, the system through which registered engineers maintain and broaden their skills across their careers. Anchoring the training in CPD means that learning to assess buildings for multiple hazards is not a single event but a recognised professional activity that engineers can carry with them.
The PEC's CPD framework, set out in the Professional Development of Engineers Bye-Laws of 2008, requires registered engineers to earn credit points on a rolling basis to renew their registration, with points gained through short courses, trainings, workshops and similar activities. By aligning CD-CRI content with this framework, the project gives engineers a concrete professional incentive to build resilience skills, and it gives those skills institutional standing within the body that regulates the profession.
This partnership also reflects the shared commitment made at the Islamabad consultation, where KnK Japan, the PEC and the NDRMF signed a Memorandum of Understanding to institutionalise climate resilience nationwide. Delivering training through CPD is one of the most direct ways of honouring that commitment, because it embeds the project's technical approach in the routine machinery of professional accreditation rather than leaving it dependent on project timelines and funding cycles.
Over time, the aim is a growing community of PEC-registered engineers who treat climate and disaster risk assessment as standard practice, supported by the SHA system and the Building Code of Pakistan 2021. In this way CD-CRI's investment in people compounds: each trained engineer becomes a multiplier, applying and passing on resilient practice long after the pilot phase in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab is complete.