Transcript Malawi Red Cross Presentation

Background
 Malawi
is one of the poorest countries in
world, threatened by extreme climate risks
 Climate
change is expected to make
things worse.
 The
communication and use of weather
and climate predictions is a crucial
challenge for adaptation, particularly
among illiterate farmers and other
vulnerable community members.
Context
Droughts
Climate risks
Cyclones and flooding
El Niño and Droughts
Climate change
Partners
1. Malawi Meteorological Services
2. Red Cross Climate change center
3. Malawi Red Cross Society
4. Malawi Institute of Management
5. International Institute of Applied Sciences (IIASA)
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Purpose and objectives
Purpose

Use of audio-visual tools to strengthen the capacity of
small holder farmers in salima district to adapt to
droughts and floods
Objectives
1.
To accelerate and enhance training/learning in risk
communication, to drought adaptation strategies by
smallholder farmers
2.
To learn from the communities on how they view and
understand climate change and climate change
adaptation and build on these understandings
Activities

Stakeholder meetings
 Community sensitization
 Community assessments KAP study, vulnerability
capacity assessment (VCA) and other social learning
methods
 Review and application of climate change scenarios
 Procurement of audio visual tools
 Trainings
 Production of audio visual tools
 Participatory workshops
 Monitoring and evaluation
 Documentation of the process
participatory workshops using audio visual tools
Learning and sharing with the community on impact
of floods/droughts, what happens during these
disasters, what are the causes and how to predict
the disasters and plan on how to do certain things
differently
Expected progress:
Community involvement
and participation in
collecting information for
developing audio-visual
tools and other materials
store
process
Disseminate:
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Concerns and challenges
 Designing
and communicating weather
forecasts to illiterate farmers
 Difficult to convince donors to fund
adaptation programs. It requires long term
funding
Lessons learnt
 Its
not easy to mobilize funding for
adaptation programs