An Overview Of Our Solution
- Population Impacted:
- Continent: Asia
Adresse
Kathmandu 977
Népal
Population impactée
Size
Only 310 households were taken of the total beneficiaries of the Koshi tappu
Principaux métiers
Ressources locales dont dépend la communauté et dans quel but
Menaces locales sur les ressources
Aléas climatiques
Niveau de sensibilité
Niveau de capacité d'adaptation
The project has helped poor and vulnerable communities to take stewardship for adaptation to climate change, to improve their social and economic status and ensure long term water resource management ultimately by enhancing the biodiversity and sustainable use of water and wetlands resources. Local communities were provided with the diversified livelihood options including the "Singada" Trapa quadrispinosa plantation and harvest and by promoting fish farming for WDCs groups to link with the fish cooperatives at the piloted sites. Youth and local communities were mobilized in the information and awareness campaigns and the use of local media was done to disseminate information and awareness on climate change, its impacts on water and wetlands
Coûts écologiques
Bénéfice écologique
Indicateurs économiques utilisés pour mesurer les avantages
Birds monitoring and other species monitoring inside the reserve that were conducted on a regular basis indicated the increase in number of bird species and habitat condition of ecosystems.
Coût économique
As above, the economic cost would come come to around US$ 200 for each meetings.
Avantage économique
Fish farmers have a slight better income and now their earning ranges from 200-300 US$/month/person from different livelihood options.
Indicateurs écologiques utilisés pour mesurer les avantages
Local people have realized that rather than traditional occupation, diverse livelihood options are more income generating.
What were/are the challenges your community faced in implementing this solution?
Organizing meeting & workshop in order together them, make them understand the concept of climate change issues and concern were the most challenging
Décrire le processus communautaire utilisé pour développer la solution, y compris les outils et les processus utilisés
Framework prepared to guide the interlinkage between drivers of environmental change and their impacts on the state of ecosystem dynamics, ecosystem goods and services, and on livelihoods of community and to identify management and adaptation strategies to decrease the vulnerability of communities to change particularly to climate change in the long run and to increase the resilience of wetland ecosystem against climatic stressors. Secondary information and participatory action research focusing on assessment of biodiveristy, dependency on wetland resources and livelihood vulnerability was done. Climate awareness and sensitization workshops were held for the most vulnerable communities including the Majhi, Mallaha, Mushar (fisher folks) and skill enhancement trainings to diversify their livelihood opportunities and increase their income were provided to switch off their traditional occupation by providing support for fish ponds and linking with the fish cooperatives. This has also provided an opportunity to enhance their capacity and involve them in the decision making process. Apart from this organization Himalayan Nature, other partners include Bird Conservation Nepal, Koshi Development Foundation and Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve's Office etc in order to collaborate and coordinate for the adaptation of local communities to address the impact of Climate Change. The length of the project was from January -December 2012 entitled "Climate Change adaptation through mainstreaming wetland conservation for improved local livelihoods in KTWR Nepal".
Comment votre solution réduit-elle l'exposition et protège-t-elle l'écosystème affecté ?
Our activities created fish ponds on the seepage areas of the reserve that reduced the chances of entering the flood to the communities, help create biodiversity pools and promoted greenery along the seepage areas that helped in minimizing the climate hazard.
How has your solution increased the capacity of the ecosystem to adapt to potential climate changes?
Sensitization and awareness workshop to capacitate them to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change and coordination and collaboration with the local stakeholders on the issues will help increase the capacity of the ecosystem to adopt to potential climate changes.
Comment votre solution réduit-elle l'exposition et protège-t-elle les communautés affectées ?
The use of biodiversity and ecosystem services of forest, wetland systems as a part of an overall adaptation strategy has helped people and communities adapt to negative effects of climate change.
Comment votre solution réduit-elle la sensibilité des communautés affectées ?
Our activities have provided a wide range of livelihood options such as fish farming, livestock rearing, organic compost making, vegetable farming etc to reduce the sensitivity of the communities affected.
Comment votre solution a-t-elle augmenté la capacité des communautés locales à s'adapter aux changements climatiques potentiels ?
Fish farmers have aggregated into a cooperative to well manage their saving and develop strong social networks to plan, manage and better utilize their resources and exchange knowledge and experience to cope and adapt to potential climate changes.
Cette solution peut-elle être reproduite ailleurs ?
It can be replicated to other critical wetland sites of Nepal where dependency of resources to wetland is very high.