Adapting to Climate Change

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Comment by Piotr Barczak on June 8, 2012 at 9:11am

Hi there!

Sorry I spammed you on your email boxes.

I ment to put the info here in the group forum.

The message is:

Hi Adaptation group!

I would like to share with you a very goodreport of Child Health Now about malnutrition.

https://childhealthnow.com/docs/en/the-best-start-full-report.pdf

It explains the problem and show good solutions.
1000 days is actually the expression that explains that the most crucial time to save a child from a long term effects of malnutrition is the first day of life of the child (from conception) until 2 years old.

have a look, worth it.

cheers
Piotr

Comment by JENNYFER DULYX on June 2, 2012 at 10:17pm

Hi everyone,

I am jennyfer and I introduced myself previously when my partners and I just began the course.  We are not looking for peer-reviewed articles that will support or discourage some of the activities we are considering for our project.  In Amani, Khagaria district, India, our farmers are having a difficult time with the floods.  We have two programs, one that deals with land conservation and managment and another that deals with alternative livelihoods.  I was wondering if you have come across any articles that discusses the pros and  of farmers' assoications and alternative livelihoods in flood prone areas.

Meanwhile, I have come accross an article about farmers associations in rwanda.  

"Farmer Associations, Decentralization and Development in Rwanda: Challenges Ahead" by Bingen, Jim and can be found at: http://purl.umn.edu/55351 

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

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