Signs of hope: A community managed climate adaptation initiative.
Apart from causing frequent droughts, global warming has resulted in unpredictable rainfall patterns, seasonal floods, food insecurity, diseases and conflicts around scarce resources.
Recurring droughts in arid and semi arid areas in the Horn of Africa have led to loss of livelihoods, lives and ets. Historically, relief food has been given as an emergency measure to keep people alive during drought. This is not sustainable; therefore Cordaid has developed the Drought Cycle Management (DCM) approach so as to enhance local people’s coping mechanisms and capacities. For more information about Cordaid and adaptation to climate change: http://www.cordaidpartners.com/English/All/Research___Evaluations/index.aspx?mId=10553#downloads
Drought Cycle Management provides direction on how communities can adapt to their circumstances in the mitigation, preparedness, emergency aid and rehabilitation phase. It encourages the provision of water resources through innovative rainwater harvesting technologies, introduction of drought resistant animals, income and livelihood diversification, introducing new foods and cereal banks, amongst other options. Extensive capacity building in disaster risk reduction enables the communities to deal with the hazards, thus reducing their vulnerabilities. Undoubtedly, early preparation reduces vulnerability and loss of livelihoods.
In Kenya, these innovative programs have been piloted by ten organizations, in the last three years.
In these video’s, organizations tell the stories of the communities they serve and factors that have helped them cope. They want to share their experiences with others. These examples are not the only solutions, but can be an inspiration in the pursuit of better solutions to adapt to climate change and its effects.
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Signs of hope: A community managed climate adaptation initiative.
Apart from causing frequent droughts, global warming has resulted in unpredictable rainfall patterns, seasonal floods, food insecurity, diseases and conflicts around scarce resources.
Recurring droughts in arid and semi arid areas in the Horn of Africa have led to loss of livelihoods, lives and ets. Historically, relief food has been given as an emergency measure to keep people alive during drought. This is not sustainable; therefore Cordaid has developed the Drought Cycle Management (DCM) approach so as to enhance local people’s coping mechanisms and capacities.
Drought Cycle Management provides direction on how communities can adapt to their circumstances in the mitigation, preparedness, emergency aid and rehabilitation phase. It encourages the provision of water resources through innovative rainwater harvesting technologies, introduction of drought resistant animals, income and livelihood diversification, introducing new foods and cereal banks, amongst other options. Extensive capacity building in disaster risk reduction enables the communities to deal with the hazards, thus reducing their vulnerabilities. Undoubtedly, early preparation reduces vulnerability and loss of livelihoods. For more information about Cordaid and adaptation to climate change, visit the website: http://www.cordaidpartners.com/English/All/Research___Evaluations/index.aspx?mId=10553#downloads
In Kenya, these innovative programs have been piloted by ten organizations, in the last three years.
In these video’s, organizations tell the stories of the communities they serve and factors that have helped them cope. They want to share their experiences with others. These examples are not the only solutions, but can be an inspiration in the pursuit of better solutions to adapt to climate change and its effects.
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Frequent droughts
Apart from causing frequent droughts, global warming has resulted in unpredictable rainfall patterns, seasonal floods, food insecurity, diseases and conflicts around scarce resources.
Recurring droughts in arid and semi arid areas in the Horn of Africa have led to loss of livelihoods, lives and ets. Historically, relief food has been given as an emergency measure to keep people alive during drought. This is not sustainable; therefore Cordaid has developed the Drought Cycle Management (DCM) approach so as to enhance local people’s coping mechanisms and capacities. For more information, go to: http://www.cordaidpartners.com/English/All/Research___Evaluations/index.aspx?mId=10553#downloads
Drought Cycle Management provides direction on how communities can adapt to their circumstances in the mitigation, preparedness, emergency aid and rehabilitation phase. It encourages the provision of water resources through innovative rainwater harvesting technologies, introduction of drought resistant animals, income and livelihood diversification, introducing new foods and cereal banks, amongst other options. Extensive capacity building in disaster risk reduction enables the communities to deal with the hazards, thus reducing their vulnerabilities. Undoubtedly, early preparation reduces vulnerability and loss of livelihoods.
In Kenya, these innovative programs have been piloted by ten organizations, in the last three years. In these video’s, organizations tell the stories of the communities they serve and factors that have helped them cope. They want to share their experiences with others. These examples are not the only solutions, but can be an inspiration in the pursuit of better solutions to adapt to climate change and its effects. For more information, please contact Sasja Kamil, Emergency Aid and Reconstruction, Cordaid. For more information about Cordaid and adaptation to climate change, go to the website:
http://www.cordaidpartners.com
Duration : 0:9:59
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Apart from causing frequent droughts, global warming has resulted in unpredictable rainfall patterns, seasonal floods, food insecurity, diseases and conflicts around scarce resources.
Recurring droughts in arid and semi arid areas in the Horn of Africa have led to loss of livelihoods, lives and ets. Historically, relief food has been given as an emergency measure to keep people alive during drought. This is not sustainable; therefore Cordaid has developed the Drought Cycle Management (DCM) approach so as to enhance local people’s coping mechanisms and capacities. For more information about Cordaid and adaptation to climate change, visit the website: http://www.cordaidpartners.com/rooms/climate-change-adaptation-and-mitigation
Drought Cycle Management provides direction on how communities can adapt to their circumstances in the mitigation, preparedness, emergency aid and rehabilitation phase. It encourages the provision of water resources through innovative rainwater harvesting technologies, introduction of drought resistant animals, income and livelihood diversification, introducing new foods and cereal banks, amongst other options. Extensive capacity building in disaster risk reduction enables the communities to deal with the hazards, thus reducing their vulnerabilities. Undoubtedly, early preparation reduces vulnerability and loss of livelihoods.
In Kenya, these innovative programs have been piloted by ten organizations, in the last three years.
In these video’s, organizations tell the stories of the communities they serve and factors that have helped them cope. They want to share their experiences with others. These examples are not the only solutions, but can be an inspiration in the pursuit of better solutions to adapt to climate change and its effects.
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Indigenous (or adivashi) communities were among people from Bangladeshs isolated south-eastern Chittagong Hill Tract Area taking part in a mass meeting to voice their concerns about climate change and the impact its having on their native forest lands.
Nearly 1,000 people, mainly indigenous groups, took part in the activity, which included local cultural performances.
Some carried banners calling for indusrialised nations to open their borders so that poor and vulnerable communities adversely affected by climatic changes and forced to move from their lands or climate refugees could find alternative and safer locations for their families.
Others held banners calling on the worlds richest countries to drastically cut their greenhouse gas emissions and compensate poor nations like Bangladesh. They urged financial help to allow communities to protect themselves from the negative impacts caused by rising sea levels, including unpredictable weather patterns and flash flooding.
Marginalised indigenous villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tract areas say weather patterns have become unpredictable and flash flooding has increased in recent years, causing land erosion and damaging their crops livelihoods.
People are already worried about climate change. It affects their livelihoods, said Arun Kanti Chakma, executive director of the istance for the Livelihood of the Origins (ALO), one of the event organizers.
Already cultivation is being affected, people are not getting good crop production because of irregular rainfall and sometimes very heavy rainfall, or no rain at all. Its become a big problem for us and people here are already among the most marginalized.
The climate change protest was organized by Oxfam and the Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods (CSRL), an alliance of more than 150 civic groups, in the run up to the United Nations conference on climate change in Poznan, Poland.
In the last few years Bangladesh, already prone to cyclones and other weather-disasters, has seen an increase in the intensity and frequency of climate related problems. Changing conditions have meant weather-related disasters have become less predictable and more difficult to manage. A lack of information and resources makes it harder for the poorest communities to prepare or respond to increased hazards.
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John Barrett (Head of the DFID Food Group) presents the results of the July 2009 DFID Food Group workshop and their next steps in light of the recent White Paper.
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In the first of a series of mini-films, Excellent Development explains how its approach to creating development through conservation is benefiting communities in Kenya.
In addition to exploring each individual element of the charities holistic approach to soil and water conservation, these films also offer a valuable insight into how Sand Dams, a key element of Excellent Development’s approach, represent an effective and necessary small-scale approach to strengthening communities’ long-term sustainability.
Whilst being critical to improving water supplies, food production, health and incomes for communities in semi-arid Kenya, sand dams are also a grassroots answer to fighting climate change, a benefit recently reinforced by the release of the government commissioned Stern Report.
The Stern Report has renewed attention on the impacts of climate change in Africa highlighting their uneven distribution, with the poorest countries being most affected.
Simon Maddrell, Excellent Development co-founder comments, “The development challenges in semi-arid Africa are completely different to the industrial nations. In semi-arid Africa it is conservation that can actually create sustainable development. Water and soil conservation provides farmers with the environment to create livelihoods by creating oases in semi-arid lands that can support water and food security. Arguably, the communities we are working with are doing far more to reverse the impacts of climate change than any of us in the West. They deserve our support, not just because they struggle to sustain their lives, but as global citizens concerned with the future of our planet.”
To see more, please go to http://tv.oneworld.net
These films were produced by Globell Media — www.globellmedia.com
A DVD of these films, along with the full length feature documentary is available from
http://www.excellentdevelopment.com
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The first of a series of discussions during the IDS Livelihoods Network’s seminar on Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLA), focusses on what SLA thinking brings to the Climate Change Agenda
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Frequently disasters are seen as extreme hazard events, which are beyond our control. This film seeks to demonstrate that rather than simply hazard driven, disasters are the result of vulnerabilities and failures in development accumulated over many years, such as unsafe conditions, dynamic pressures and socio-economic and political systems. The film is aimed at development practitioners, politicians and donors and argues that disasters are a development concern and asks for risk reduction to be mainstreamed into development planning.
Duration : 0:10:45
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