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Improving Climate Resilience

• f Smallholders

Broadening the Scope

CARE India Solutions for Sustainable Development

CSA: Practices and Methods

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Integrated practices: agroforestry, livestock & agriculture Integrated practices: agroforestry, livestock & agriculture Crop production: varietal selection, plant breeding, conservation agriculture Crop production: varietal selection, plant breeding, conservation agriculture Livestock and supply chain management: feed, manure management Livestock and supply chain management: feed, manure management Forestry: goods & services essential for livelihoods Forestry: goods & services essential for livelihoods Energy: recution of dependency on non-renewable energy Energy: recution of dependency on non-renewable energy Water and land management: landscape management, efficient use of rersources Water and land management: landscape management, efficient use of rersources Fisheries and Aquaculture Fisheries and Aquaculture Genetic resources & biodiversity: diversity of species, within species, of ecosystems Genetic resources & biodiversity: diversity of species, within species, of ecosystems Nuclear techniques: increase of productivity, resilience of systems, reduce GHG Nuclear techniques: increase of productivity, resilience of systems, reduce GHG

Action on the ground

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Water structure Repaired dhodhi Inter-cropping Agro-forestry Pitcher-irrigation Bio-fertilizer preparation Market visits for women Exposure to other groups

Broadening the Scope

Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis

• Analysis of vulnerability to climate change and adaptive

capacity at the community level

• Combine community knowledge and scientific data to yield

greater understanding about local impacts of climate change

• Gendered response to and impacts of climate change
• Lack of voice to assert rights and entitlements
• Sustainability of infrastructure focused interventions
• Need to build on strengths
• Calibrating preparedness and response
• Building a sense of purpose and accountability

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Tools and Approaches for Community Based Adaptation

Adaptive Capacity is the ability of a system to adjust to climate change (including climate variability and extremes) to moderate potential damages, to take advantage of

• pportunities, or to cope with the consequences

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• Participatory planning with women at the centre
• Village Development Committees for decision making

Community Adaptation Plans

• Index capturing Asset base, Knowledge and Information,

Institutions and Entitlements, Decision making and Governance, Innovation Adaptive Capacity Index

• Purposive selection of SHG platforms
• Inclusion, WASH, Social Action indicators
• Gender Tools and REFLECT Circles

SHG Quality Assessment and Gender Tools in CC Context

• Evolving technical package together – improving water

storage and supply infrastructure, agri-input, technology and practices; water audits Farmer Field Schools

• Local understanding of scenarios and responses
• Reviving local water bodies, including dhodis used by

women; promoting exchange of local seed varieties Integrating Local Knowledge, Structures and Institutions

What are we learning?

• Integration of social equity and gender equality – Who is the most

vulnerable?

• Building adaptive capacities – an iterative process requiring work along the

Resilience Spectrum

• Importance of engagement and ownership – Who owns the process and

products?

• Community level vulnerabilities vis-à-vis HH and individual level disasters –

streamlining planning at multiple levels

• Limits to or frontiers of progress – investing in women’s literacy and

leadership

• Sustaining water infrastructure development – Leveraging user investments,

community institutions, and schematic links

• Sensitization through visibilization for improved accountability – Of duty

bearers and service providers Sustainable, Productive, Equitable and Resilient SuPER Livelihoods, Food and Nutrition Security

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Thank you!