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About CRIO Certification

CRIO Training and Certification Overview

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Benefits of CRIO Certification

For Individuals

  • Gain the ultimate certificate on climate-resilient PPPs.
  • Acquire the tools and knowledge required to integrate climate resilience across the PPP project cycle.
  • Learn from international experts and access discussions from the CRIO Masterclass.
  • Strengthen your credentials as a Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Officer, recognized globally.

For Organizations

  • Supports governments and organizations in leveraging PPPs for climate-resilient infrastructure.
  • Helps bridge the $15 trillion global infrastructure investment gap by 2040 with sustainable, climate-adapted approaches.
  • Provides a consistent framework to integrate climate adaptation and resilience across infrastructure projects.
  • Strengthens institutional capacity to deliver infrastructure that withstands climate risks while meeting economic and social objectives.

    Study materials

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    CRIO Handbook (September 2021)
    eBook (English)
    By
    Global Center on Adaptation
    Free
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    Documentation

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    pdf - 245.75 KB - 17 June 2025

    CRIO Certification levels

    Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Officer badge

    Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Officer

    Understand key concepts around climate adaptation, risk and resilient infrastructure

    Testimonials

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    From my perspective, the learning material and CRIO certification are a "win-win" for PPP practitioners because they will provide opportunities for career growth and, most importantly, improve your understanding of opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase the resilience to climate stresses through climate-smart infrastructure.

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    Delroy Dennis
    Procurement and Project Manager Ministry of National Security, The Bahamas
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    SFIA

    The SFIA Framework is the global common reference for skills and competency for the digital world.

    This APMG certification has been informally mapped against the SFIA Framework to indicate the skills that are addressed and referenced by the certification. Although it is not yet possible to claim this digital badge, the indicative skills can be used to plan your professional development through assessing the skills you have and the skills you need for the role you want.

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    Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Officer

    Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Officer

    SFIA elements this certification confirms (endorsement)

    Generic attribute Knowledge up to level 3

    SFIA elements this would be useful for (development)

    Same as above plus Sustainability up to level 5, Generic attribute Influence up to level 5

    FAQs

    You can always access all your records, electronic certificates and badges via the APMG Candidate Portal.  

    Once you have logged on to the Candidate Portal, click on the ‘Badges and Certificates’ option from the menu bar at the top of screen. From here you should click on the ‘Create Badge/Certificate’ button. This will take you to the Credly platform to create an account and download your badge and certificate. 

    Step-by-step guidance is available to download from the ‘Badges and Certificates’ area in your Candidate Portal. 

    Electronic certificates are environmentally friendly, but you can print the certificate yourself at home or work, if required. 

    If you have any problems you are welcome to contact our customer service team.  

    If you previously sat an exam with us and were issued a paper certificate but would like to upgrade to a digital badge and e-certificate, please contact us. There is a £25 administration fee for providing a digital badge and a form for which you will need to complete to consent to your personal information being used in order to manually create the badge in Credly.com.

    If your exam is booked through a Training Organization, and they are proctoring your exam over a platform of their choosing, you will need reach out to them directly to discuss options to reschedule.  

    If your exam is with ProctorU, you can reschedule without additional charges as many times as you wish up to 24 hours prior to your booked slot. If you reschedule within this 24-hour period, you will need to pay the £38 reschedule fee, as we will still be charged by ProctorU for your slot.

    You can merge your account by logging into your candidate portal with your initial email address and click on your name at the top. Then click merge and send a merge request to your secondary email address. Once you have agreed to the email request, everything will appear in one account. Please contact us if you have any problems with this process and we will be happy to help.

    You may contact our Accreditation Team directly, and they will be happy to answer your questions regarding the Accreditation process.

    To become an Accredited Training Organization (ATO), apply for accreditation or contact your local APMG office. If suitable, you'll receive an invoice and undergo APMG International's ATO assessment.

    Trainers must be sponsored by an Accredited Training Organization (ATO), which can be found using the APMG International search tool. The sponsoring ATO must submit a trainer application to APMG. 

    The requirements, including pass marks of the exams, will vary depending on the certification, please get in touch for more information.

    You can either contact your Training Organization to purchase a new exam, or you can purchase a new exam directly from our public exams website. For more information, see our more detailed article on resitting an exam.

    Please contact our 24/7 Technical Team on +44 (0)1494 452450 and select Option 3 for Technical Assistance or email them at help@apmg-international.com. They are also available via a live chat.  

    If this is a password creation issue, please note that '?', '@', '#', and 'é' are not allowed for creating a portal password.

    Any request for additional time will need to be provided in writing to customerservice@apmgroup.co.uk. We will need to see evidence of your diagnosed condition in the form of a medical report, signed by a medical practitioner.  

    If this is not available, or your condition was diagnosed a long time ago, then any statement from an employer, line manager or Occupation Health advisor will be sufficient.  

    If no recommendations regarding the length of time to be added to the exam is evident in the documents supplied, then we apply 25% additional time to the exam.

    Get in touch

    If you have a query about this certification or want to know more about training send us a message via this contact form. We would love to hear from you!

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