Adapting to Climate Change

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Comment by Tillem Burlace on February 20, 2012 at 7:19am

A useful link for facilitating the organization of a community based Income Generation Committees to help address low skills levels as an climate change adaptation response

http://www.academicjournals.org/sre/PDF/pdf2010/4Sep/Tshitangoni%20...

Scientific Research and Essays Vol. 5(17), pp. 2375-2383, 4 September, 2010

“Assessment of challenges facing poverty alleviation projects in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province in South Africa” M. Tshitangoni*, A. Okorie and J. Francis

Assesses poverty alleviation projects (community gardens, poultry, piggery, bakery and other projects, including juice making, brick making, stone crushing and coffin making) in Vhembe District of Limpopo, found that poverty alleviation projects faced numerous challenges related to capacity, funding, lack of water and infrastructure etc and that these need to be addressed in designing projects.

 

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=onlin... (not free)

Surender, Rebecca; Van Niekerk, Robert  “Addressing poverty through community-based income generation projects: the evidence from South Africa” Policy & Politics, Volume 36, Number 3, July 2008 , pp. 325-342(18)

Looks at projects to encourage entrepreneurship, found several barriers including lack of capacity in the target community, lack of infrastructure and policy confusion. 

Comment by Rebecca World on February 13, 2012 at 11:24pm

If ever you are looking for an excellent model of community climate change adaptation, please consider looking at the work of a colleague, Ryan Hennessey. In Yukon, Canada, he has worked with community members and scientists to create adaptation plans and projects to work with our changing climate. Excellent work.

http://www.taiga.net/nce/adaptation/projects.html

Thanks,

Rebecca

Comment by Alba Saray Perez Teran on January 10, 2012 at 10:57pm

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Community-based Climate Change Action Grants (AusAID)

AusAID has made available grants for Australian and international NGOs to work with local organizations to scale up current successful community-based climate change activities or to build a climate change component into existing community development activities in the Pacific and Southeast Asia. The fund is open to NGOs with expertise in the implementation of community-based adaptation and/or mitigation activities.

The grants fall into two main categories:

1. Community-based adaptation grants, which will help build the resilience of communities to the impacts of climate change; and
2. Community-based mitigation grants, which will help communities reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions, while also addressing key development priorities.

Organisations are invited to submit concept proposals for the grants program.  AusAID will co-fund the detailed design of activities for successful organisations.

More information (pdf).

Deadline: February 10, 2012

http://news.capri.cgiar.org/2012/01/call-for-proposals-community-ba...

Comment by Kathy Tate-Bradish on November 4, 2011 at 2:07pm

Great article, thanks for the link.

Comment by Siobhan Girling on November 4, 2011 at 12:33pm

IIED report on utilizing indigenous knowledge in agricultural adaptation to climate change:

http://reliefweb.int/node/457178

Comment by Kathy Tate-Bradish on October 13, 2011 at 1:12am

Hi Kristin, If you don't find someone with actual expertise in waterborne illnesses I'd be happy to talk to you just so you have a little feedback. I have done a handwashing section in a workshop. I'm in Chicago, so we're probably 7 hours apart. My skype name is kathyevanston, and my email is ktbus@sbcglobal.net. My feelings won't be hurt if you find someone who has knowledge in your area! But I'm certainly happy to help. Ich habe auch in Deutschland einmal gewohnt - 1981/2!

Comment by Kristin Henschel on October 13, 2011 at 12:57am

...by the way, since I do work on a "virtual" project (the needs assesment actually is real, but I just got the data to work with, I do not have a partner on the location) I am asking in this forum for help or for a feedback about my project outline and goal. I hope to have a short discussion with some experienced people or somebody who conducted a needs assesment...

Thanks!

Kristin

Comment by Kristin Henschel on October 12, 2011 at 1:56pm

Hello everybody,

I am writing to see if some of you who participated in the needs assesment of the OL 341 course, would like to have a short discussion (assignment four) about the project outline and goal of a project based in Bangladesh that deals with an increased incidence of waterborne diseases like diarrhea due to a lack of knowledge of health, hygiene, and a lack of uncontaminated household water, and due to water contamination from flooding. Furthermore people also suffer from food insecurity due to a lack of knowledge of family gardens for nutrition and due to extreme weather events like floods, drought and cyclones leading to a loss of crop harvests and/or livestock.

I am looking forward to hear from some of you.

Thanks!

Kristin

Comment by Melania Di Vara on October 11, 2011 at 8:55am

Dear all,

I'm taking the course OL 341 From the Ground Up for Adaptation and currently developing a project with rural communities affected by climate change related intense rainfall and flooding in Pakistan. In particular my partners and me are exploring the possibilities of both a program on disaster preparedness/risk reduction and a program on flood mitigation and adaptation.

I was wondering if any of you has heard about the idea of providing low cost insurance to poor communities in developing countries as a way to cope with extreme weather events vulnerability. Maybe you have some sources to suggest?

In exchange I would like to share with you an interesting link that I found on community based adaptation to cc:

http://www.acts.or.ke/dmdocuments/CBAA_DOCUMENTS/CBAA%20Uganda.pdf

This paper describes a project recently implemented in Uganda, I found it very useful and hope you will find interesting ideas for your research.

Thanks!

Melania

Lok Sanjh is a non-profit, non-governmental organization working with the rural communities particularly with women farmers in Pakistan. The organization started its work in 1996 and is registered under the
societies act 1860. At present it is working in more than 200 villages
Punjab and Kashmir.

Comment by Kristin Henschel on October 10, 2011 at 12:31pm

Hello!
I am taking the online adaptation course OL 341 (http://www.csd-i.org/ol-341-adapting-climate-change/) where I am developing a project in Bangladesh based on increased incidence of waterborne diseases and food insecurity.
I am posting to this group to see if somebody has resources that could help me in the development of my project, like links to websites, scientific papers, work-experience etc. that could help me to find intervention activities that I could use in my project:500 households in Koliapara village, Bangladesh note an increased incidence of waterborne diseases like diarrhea due to a lack of knowledge of health, hygiene, and a lack of uncontaminated household water, and due to water contamination from flooding. They also suffer from food insecurity due to a lack of knowledge of family gardens for nutrition and due to extreme weather events like floods, drought and cyclones leading to a loss of crop harvests and/or livestock. These challenges affect children's participation in family and community activities—as well as their ability to attend school and for adults to work. This leads to continuing impoverishment due to the inability to lead a productive, meaningful, and prosperous life they need to break the circle of poverty and to contribute to the development of their communities.

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