Adapting to Climate Change

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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.

Comment by Kristin Henschel on October 3, 2011 at 9:42am

Dear Elijah,

thanks for sharing the link about 'Strengthening local resilience to climate change'.  - I am kind of new in the field of development cooparation and help and I am very eager to learn a lot about it...Your link gave me some very interessting insights!

Comment by Alba Saray Perez Teran on October 2, 2011 at 9:02pm

Dear Elijah,

A few months ago I went to Kenya for a Climate Change adaptation study. We found some similar problem to yours, including the conflicts over water. In their case MKEPP project (field IFAD project in the region), had developed a strategy to over come these conflicts, which they are currently implementing. They had, on the first hand, facilitated the generation of Community Based Organizations at different levels of Kapingazi catchment (each of the CBOs responsible for a section of the water resources, each knowing the problems and representing the people in the area). One representative of each CBO takes part in the WRUA (the Water Resource Users Association) at the catchment level, together with some representatives from the ministry of water at the local level, and some facilitators from the NGO. They have carried several activities that might be interesting for you, being one of the last signing Memorandums of Agreement on the water usage rate for each part of the catchment during dry spells. I haven´t been able to find online the documents from Kapingazi WRUA, but I found a presentation from the MKEPP. From page number 12 and on you can see a sumary of the process they followed. http://imawesa.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/IMAWESA-SHR-Kenya-MK...

Hope this helps!

Greetings

Comment by KAJUBI ELIJAH on October 2, 2011 at 8:30am

Dear Colleagues,

 I am part of online adaptation course (http://www.csd-i.org/ol-341-adaptating-climate-change/) in which with (DeBlieu & Girling)  desiging a project with climate change intergration.

The project problem issues:

Five villages in the semi-arid region of southwest Uganda have been severely affected by increasing periods of intense droughts. This has lowered water tables, reduced crop harvests, made them less predictable – and caused frequent food shortages for the 300 families (including 845 children) who live in the villages. As a result, many community members are chronically under- or malnourished, which has a particularly devastating impact on children under 5, who suffer from stunting. The stresses produced by droughts and food shortages have also led to community conflicts over access to resources, undermining the communities’ ability to solve their common problems.

 

The issue of conflict for resources poses another dimension in designing project interventions, I therefore hereby request for any resource that could help in developing the project-including the links to websites or social science papers.

In exchange I would like to share with you a link that I found: 'Strengthening local resilience to climate change'

http://www.prolinnova.net/climate/prolinnova-policy-brief-climate-c...

It is based primarily on studies made by Prolinnova partners in Ethiopia, Nepal and Niger into local innovation and climate-change adaptation, but also includes a case example from Indonesia

By posting this I seek your assistance on innovative best practices in natural resources conflict management

 

 

Comment by Claire Elizabeth Balbo on August 24, 2011 at 1:25pm

Following link for those of you interested in the use of traditional knowledge and climate change impacts: http://www.fao.org/docrep/011/i0841e/i0841e00.htm

Comment by Doris Karambu Kaberia on August 21, 2011 at 12:15pm

Good morning adapting to climate change group

My name is Doris Kaberia and I am part of an online adaptation course OL 341 (http://www.csd-i.org/ol-341-adapting-climate-change/ ) . Together with two other partners, Susan Wasubire from Uganda, and kanika Chakraborty from Bangladesh, we are developing a project with the community of Koliapara village(Bagladesh) faced with the increased incidence of flooding, cyclone and drought  that are suffering from food security problems:

500 households in the village of Koliapara, are suffering from the continued loss of agricultural crops, livestock and aquatic life due to the increased incidence of flooding, cyclone and drought. This has led to reduction of food security, increased incidence of waterborne diseases, lack of Uncontaminated Household Water, loss of lives and property and un certainty and leading to the incapacity to prepare and respond to disasters.

I'm posting to this group today to see if any of you have found any resources that could help me and my team members in the development of our project—including links to websites or scientific papers that would help us find intervention activities that we could use in our project, or links to sites where I can download how-to field guides or manuals on implementing these activities with the community?

Comment by Perry Ndzefemmegho on August 12, 2011 at 10:44am

Dear all

Where can I find innovative tools for a sustainable agriculture project with a climate information component. I'm particularly interested in how seed crop varieties in sub saharan Africa adapt to climate change as well as how local/indigenous communities can make leverage on or share the traditional information they already have.

Perry 

Comment by Claire Elizabeth Balbo on August 12, 2011 at 7:57am

for technological innovations on climate change adaptation visit www.tendris.com

Comment by Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy on August 3, 2011 at 11:38am

Dear All, I had been working on climate change, vulnerability and adaptation issues since last 7 years. Please see the links to find documents

Situational Analysis of a Climate Change Project

Climate Change Variability and Adaptation

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