In March CDI and Alterra gave a joint regional training on Climate Change Adaptation in agriculture and NRM in Addis Ababa. The 12-day course was attended by 19 participants from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and Nigeria. Most were researchers from universities, agricultural research institutes, non-governmental organisations and government departments.
The topics covered included vulnerability, stakeholder analysis and the science-policy interface. The facilitators used interactive training methods, for which the participants’ own experiences provided the entry point: their examples of climate change hotspots were used for joint analysis. While discussions were lively during the classroom sessions, it was the overnight field trip to a national park 300 km outside Addis that made the relationships between macro- and micro-climate change come alive.
The complexity involved in climate adaptation and the need to take into account both the short and long term view were also highlighted during the interactive seminar with policy makers, when strategies for policy development and programming were discussed and refined.
The regional training is part of a larger support programme for climate change adaptation in Eastern Africa that focuses on developing the capacities needed to better integrate climate change adaptation responses into agricultural, rural development and natural resource management policy processes.
Read more about the training and the support programme on our climate change portal.
A Trainer's Manual on Climate Change Adaptation and Development can be downloaded from our publication page .