A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation
	A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation By Tim Magee Foreword by Howard White Published December 14th, 2012 by Routledge – 248 pages Purchase at Amazon US: Now available in a Kindle editon Download a Kindle Sample Purchase at Routlege UK Read the Table of Contents and the Introduction

Tim Magee’s new book, a Field Guide to Community-Based Adaptation is supported by a user-friendly website, updated by the author, where readers can download online resources and field assignment templates for each chapter which they can tailor to their own specific projects.

The book itself is a field guide which follows a family of four courses in community-based adaptation to climate change—OL 341, 342, 343 and 344. The assignments, explanations, examples, discussions and lesson plans follow these courses exactly. By looking at the resources on the Field Guide’s webpage you can get a sense of what the individual assignments are like by looking at the assignment examples.

Each chapter is a field assignment for field staff to carry out with a community in order to develop a real on-the-ground project. Each chapter is therefore one step in the process of assessing community need, designing and funding a project, launching the project in partnership with the community, and handing the project over to the community at grant’s end.

At the end of each chapter in the Field Guide is a Section Called “Chapter Resources” where you can get suggestions for project development and find recommended resources for that chapter.

At TimMagee.net, on the Field Guide’s webpage, readers can also download example assignment templates for each of the chapters such as project outlines, log frames, budgets and a letter of inquiry for presenting to a donor. These are downloaded as Microsoft Word and Excel files so that readers can edit and modify them to suit their own projects design. These documents are then used both in project management and as donor presentations.

Each of the chapter’s resources include live links to resources that are specific to each chapter in the book. These downloadable resources include scientific analyses of adaptation activities that establish whether they work, and handbooks and manuals that give detailed how-to information on subjects as varied as climate smart agriculture or the importance of hand washing for hygiene. There are also field guides and lesson plans for conducting workshops with community members.

A separate page organizes resources by topic—such documents on participatory vulnerability and capacity analysis, participatory mapping, conservation agriculture, and soil and water conservation.

On this page you can read the table of contents and the book’s introduction—plus you can download a Kindle Edition sample of the book.

We hope that you enjoy this new online resource which is in support of our Diploma Program: OL 340 Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change.

Enjoy!

A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation
	A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation By Tim Magee Foreword by Howard White Published December 14th, 2012 by Routledge – 248 pages Purchase at Amazon US: Now available in a Kindle editon Download a Kindle Sample Purchase at Routlege UK Read the Table of Contents and the Introduction

Tim Magee’s new book, a Field Guide to Community-Based Adaptation is supported by a user-friendly website, updated by the author, where readers can download online resources and field assignment templates for each chapter which they can tailor to their own specific projects.

The book itself is a field guide which follows a family of four courses in community-based adaptation to climate change—OL 341, 342, 343 and 344. The assignments, explanations, examples, discussions and lesson plans follow these courses exactly. By looking at the resources on the Field Guide’s webpage you can get a sense of what the individual assignments are like by looking at the assignment examples.

Each chapter is a field assignment for field staff to carry out with a community in order to develop a real on-the-ground project. Each chapter is therefore one step in the process of assessing community need, designing and funding a project, launching the project in partnership with the community, and handing the project over to the community at grant’s end.

At the end of each chapter in the Field Guide is a Section Called “Chapter Resources” where you can get suggestions for project development and find recommended resources for that chapter.

At TimMagee.net, on the Field Guide’s webpage, readers can also download example assignment templates for each of the chapters such as project outlines, log frames, budgets and a letter of inquiry for presenting to a donor. These are downloaded as Microsoft Word and Excel files so that readers can edit and modify them to suit their own projects design. These documents are then used both in project management and as donor presentations.

Each of the chapter’s resources include live links to resources that are specific to each chapter in the book. These downloadable resources include scientific analyses of adaptation activities that establish whether they work, and handbooks and manuals that give detailed how-to information on subjects as varied as climate smart agriculture or the importance of hand washing for hygiene. There are also field guides and lesson plans for conducting workshops with community members.

A separate page organizes resources by topic—such documents on participatory vulnerability and capacity analysis, participatory mapping, conservation agriculture, and soil and water conservation.

On this page you can read the table of contents and the book’s introduction—plus you can download a Kindle Edition sample of the book.

We hope that you enjoy this new online resource which is in support of our Diploma Program: OL 340 Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change.

Enjoy!

SOUTH SUDAN

Training Farmers in Climate Smart Agriculture

Piotr Barczak (Poland/Belgium/South Sudan) took several community-based adaptation courses in 2012 but was called away to South Sudan in the fall. Poitr is an environmental lobbyist in Brussels—but also has experience working in the DRC. He has been working on a project for the past two months in Jonglei State developing an ecologically sensitive agricultural program for 60 farming families. He prepared a brief final report in English in March for those of us in the CSDi community to enjoy. Here is a link to his report so that you can learn more about his project and look at a greater range of photographs.

VIETNAM

Working With 192 Families in a Mainstreamed DRR Project

Teo Do is working with 192 Households in Cat Tuong commune to save their lives during natural disasters and improved family income through his CBDRR, Climate Smart Agriculture, and Improved Livelihood Project. Read about the project and see additional photos. His project includes: Community-Based Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction Program Alternative Income Generation Program Climate Smart Agriculture Program

PAKISTAN

Climate Change Related Extreme Weather Events Have Left Thousands of Families Homeless

In September 2012 floods hit Pakistan for the third consecutive year affecting more than 5 million people. In Balochistan, among the most affected provinces, high in numbers of Balochistanis were effected, their infrastructure destroyed, and their livestock and standing crops lost. The needs they identified include shelter, food, water and farming inputs.   Karen Giathi (Kenya), Stephen Yeboah (Ghana/Switzerland), Rehmat Durrani (Pakistan) are developing a project designed to combat these challenges for 100 families living in the open or in tents which includes an advocacy program for housing support, a climate smart agricultural program, and a climate based flood mitigation and adaptation program. You can read more about their project and see photographs here.

TANZANIA

Kilimanjaro: Extreme Weather Events and Recurring Drought Create Food Insecurity for 1300 Households

Since 2007 there has been severe drought and crop failure in the Kilimanjaro region—mostly in Moshi rural, Rombo, and Lower Hai and Mwanga districts. This has led to difficult livelihood challenges among community members; housing and food security are also challenges.   Minja Gileard Sifuel (Tanzania), Gemi Montecchi (Italy) and Ellen deGuzman (US) have been developing a project which includes a soil restoration program, a home gardening for nutrition program, and a soil and water resources management program. Read more about the challenges this community faces and the solutions that this team have come up with.

SURINAME

Extreme Weather Events are Flooding Homes and Croplands

Approximately 100 families of the Margaretha Plantation in the District of Commewijne are suffering from damage to their homes and cropland due to the intrusion of sea and river water. This is due to the lack of a water use management plan and extreme weather events such as heavy rainfall during La Niña periods that exacerbate the intrusion of sea and river water into residential and crop land during the spring tide. Gaitrie Satnarain (Suriname) and Wye Yee Yong (Malaysia/Thailand) have developed a project that includes a rainy season drainage and sanitation master plan, a water management plan, and a community-based flood mitigation program. Read more about the challenges this community faces and the solutions that this team have come up with – complete with photos.

MARCH FIELD GUIDE

Community Level Water Conservation and Management

Developing community watershed management as a component of a master water use management plan. A shortage of water or unreliable access to water is one of the biggest issues in development. Community water sources dry up during climate change related drought—or seasonally during the dry season. There is competition among different segments of the community for available water.   Discussing community water harvesting calls for stepping back from the immediate problem and looking at the relevant underlying causes for the shortage of water in order to begin developing solutions. Download the field guide.

CBDRR

Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction

Hanna Bartel (Germany/Canada) and Gillian Primas (Grenada) are working on a DRR project in Grenada where over the past 10 years rainfall has become increasingly uncharacteristic and unseasonable. There is insufficient drainage of the heavy rainfall and farmers are  suffering from flooded fields—which reduce incomes. Gillian just held a consciousness-raising meeting with the community’s DRR subcommittee who made the decision at the workshop to focus first on an early warning system (which Gillian will be presenting in a workshop in two weeks) and then focus on an evacuation plan, a search and rescue team, and a mitigation plan. Read more about this project here.

Spring Quarter	Are you interested in:
	A Diploma in Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change? A Diploma in Integrated Community Based Adaptation, DRR & Rural Development? Designing and Funding Sustainable Development Projects? Water Conservation and Management? Climate Smart Agriculture? Community Based DRR?

Would you like to learn how to develop Community Based Adaptation Projects?