Community Perspectives on Climate Resilience
In 2022, Ground Truth Solutions partnered with IIED and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), to survey the opinions of more than 2,300 citizen in three areas of Bangladesh particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The aim was to understand how they perceive the quality and impact of adaptation programmes in their communities, and the extent to which they feel their views, opinions and experiences are considered in decision-making.
Shifting Power Through Climate Research
Colonial legacies and unequal divisions of power embedded within Global North-South relationships continue to affect and shape climate research. This article explores how these dynamics can be better considered and addressed during research processes.
Farmers' Seed Network (China)
Farmers’ Seed Network (FSN) was founded in 2013, established on the basis of Participatory Action Research works of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy of the Chinese Academ
ASEAN-Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change
This article summarises the ASFCC programme that has developed and integrated social forestry approaches into the climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies of ASEAN and the member states.
The EcoAdapt Project
The EcoAdapt project assisted South American communities in developing their ecosystem-based adaptation strategies.
Prairie Climate Centre
The Prairie Climate Centre is a collaboration of the University of Winnipeg and the Internati
Photovoice
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Participatory gender-sensitive approaches for addressing key climate change-related research issues
The researchers investigated if and how farming practices are being modified to deal with a changing environment, and the constraints and opportunities these changes pose for both men and women.
Local people’s perceptions of climate change and associated impacts in Papua
This project investigated local people’s perceptions of climate change and associated impacts in Papua.
Informing Participatory Action Research
Climate change affects men and women differently with regards to responses to the impacts of climate change. There has been very little research conducted, however, on understanding...
New research and training materials on Gender and Climate Change Research in Agriculture and Food Security for Rural Development
Climate change does not affect everyone in the same way. Men and women are affected differently. Their responses to the impacts of climate change also differ, especially when it comes to...
Social learning
Social learning develops the actors' ability to improvise; it requires investment in relationships and trust building, respect for difference and appreciation of other ways of seeing the world.
Participatory Processes
What are participatory processes? The main purpose, and the power, of any participatory approach, is reflection on the material generated to identify what has real meaning, and thus to ensure that the information that comes out of discussions results in real action.
Community participation and monitoring
An effective participatory development depends on good practice in three areas: respect of basic principles, design of a good process and good selection of tools or methods.
Vulnerable communities adapting to floods in Kenya
The changing climatic scenarios in the Lake Victoria basin, extreme climatic events including floods ravage the livelihoods of communities in Kano plains. In the past, long rains were mainly...
Stockholm Environment Institute
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