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Increasing Community Resilience to Drought in Makueni District Project Site “ Project benefits and Community Capacity bu

Increasing Community Resilience to Drought in Makueni District Project Site “ Project benefits and Community Capacity building to respond to Drought”. James Oduor

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Increasing Community Resilience to Drought in Makueni District Project Site “ Project benefits and Community Capacity bu

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  1. Increasing Community Resilience to Drought in Makueni District Project Site“Project benefits and Community Capacity building to respond to Drought” James Oduor Presentation made at the Machakos Workshop on Increasing Community Resilience to Drought in Makueni District Project Site, 3rd to 6th January 2007

  2. Activities undertaken Interactions with Communities by District team, Hq team and both Hq and district teams • Household Survey (Research) • Participatory stakeholders engagement • Meetings with end users • Meetings with policy makers at district level • Meetings with the Communities • Discussions, Interviews, Focal Group discussions, among others

  3. Achievements (outputs), so far 2.1 Baseline information, for example • HH food sources • Income /Expenditure patterns • Land Use Systems/Livelihood systems • Local adaptive strategies • Baseline information is useful for: • Planning • Developing project activities • Assessing overall Project impacts

  4. 2.2 Mapping of baseline information through GIS • Makes interpretation easy • Good for comparisons • Other benefits 2.3 Policy review • Identification of policies that reinforce adaptation • Plans to mainstream successful interventions in the current and emerging policy process • Plans to cover gaps in the current policies • Plans to make adaptation issues more explicit in the current policies

  5. 2.4 Identification and documentation of specific constraints to communities adaptive strategies • Seed • Use of weather and climate information • Water scarcity • Natural Resource Management • Soil erosion • Limited livelihood diversification opportunities

  6. 2.5 Preparation, through participatory approach, action Plans based on the identified problems and needs, to enhance adaptation strategies • Seed varieties • Effective use of weather and climate information to determine agricultural calendar • Income Generating Activities (diversification) at household level through provision of micro-finance facilities • Water • Natural Resource Management

  7. 2.6 Community awareness and sensitization on the reality of climate change 2.7 Development of a website 2.8 Putting together a multi-sectoral, multi-agency implementable project on adaptation to climate change

  8. Community Capacity Building needs • Using the demonstrations for training (field days, farmers visit to the demonstrations, etc) • Natural Resource Management • Diversification of livelihoods (income generating activities) • Training of the communities on the other elements of the action plan

  9. END OF PRESENTATION THANK YOU FOR LISTENING

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