Who is the target audience for this study? Is the target audience decision-makers (i.e. government bodies creating policies for the business and civil sectors)? or Influencers? (such as grass-roots groups) or individual members within a community who are neither decision makers nor influencers?

Thank you very much Dennis. This will be very important materials.

Thank you sir for sharing this resource.

Thank you Dennis, I think that many programs have started integrating GCC in their activities. Much more to learn about GCC. Last week, I participated in a training about Global Climate Change & Development that was impressive how important it is to integrate climate change in the program cycle. Organized by USAID.

It’s hard if not next to impossible to pinpoint which exact indicator or group of indicators that is or are the single most important indicators in relation to effectively monitoring the progress of an intervention that was specifically designed to increase community adoption on climate change that have various adverse impacts on agricultural products whereby such negative impacts also affect farmers earning decent incomes as well the overall performance of local economies to do well. Such projects/programs mostly have had predesigned desired objectives, outcomes and impacts of increasing community resilience to droughts and floods. No doubt that droughts and floods have adverse impacts on livelihoods that rely on agriculturally produced products, however in order to adequately address variables that mostly cause floods and droughts must be singled out and hence this is the challenge for most projects/programs. It has been a challenge mainly because such interventions do not take accounts the local and available knowledge and hence continually and somewhat stubbornly keeps falling to account indigenous local knowledge.
My opinion is we need to close the gap between theory and practices on many development related issues, in this case through capacitating local farmers with enhanced farming technologies while systematizing local knowledge would seem on the right direction. On this regard the question of how to systemize available local knowledge and then apply to the modified local knowledge at all project cycles is that major missing element that could effectively provides information feeding system that in return allows producing enhanced local knowledge management systems. I intend to say more on this. However for now and as far the discussion is on enhancing farmer resilience, I think the focus ought to be devoted on innovative methods geared towards enhancing farmer local knowledge. Thank you.

Excelent material. I think civil society organizations need to understand and properly manage sound indicators to monitor their governments' Mitigation and Adaptation plans and programmes.