Adaptation and Civil Society Groups 2013
What role will civil society actors play in climate adaptation?
Communities around the world are preparing for the impacts of climate change, including greater variability in temperature, precipitation, extreme weather events, and/or rising sea levels. Civil society actors (including community groups and non-governmental organizations or NGOs) have capacities and resources that are very different from local, regional, or national governments. This contest seeks proposals on how civil society actors can support the planning and implementation of programs and projects that respond to the current and future impacts of climate change. See more…
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Proposals
Uniting global communities through microfinance and education to support climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts.
A proposal to strengthen community structure for effective adaptation strategy and response to climate change impact in Ekiti state, Nigeria through creating community climate change response commitee, capacity building, conducting community disaster proned assessment, developing with the community a community climate change mitigation plan, implementation and linkage to existing stakeholders like the state’s ministry of environment, state’s emrgency management agency and others critical instituitions through effective advocacy, dialogue and proactive response strategies
To develop a two way climate change communication model for policy facilitation dialogue, which integrate the concerns of Climate Change into development planning processes and capitalize on the opportunity of Convergence wherever possible.
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