CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE POOR

TEARFUND’S

RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Tearfund’s response to Climate Change

Environmental sustainability: Reduce our emissions Influence churches & supporters Advocacy for policy change Donor funding & policies Transform communities

- CCA - DRR- WATSAN

Awareness• Help Partners become aware of the impacts of climate

change on their local environment & the potential to undermine their projects’ sustainability

• Help Partners understand the links between local environmental degradation and their own programmes

Participatory Research Accessing local

environmental knowledge:• Changes in weather and

seasons• Changes in biodiversity &

crop yields• Adaptive capacity• Existing coping mechanisms• Accessing district and

national knowledge and resources, including meteorological

Assessment

• Vulnerability Risk Assessments• Environmental Impact Assessments• Ensure all existing & new projects

Do No Harm to the environment• Identify projects to modify so they

Do Some Good to the environment• Identify the need for any new

projects for climate change adaptation

• Communities have the right to develop. How to achieve this sustainably? Renewable energy projects

Education• Identify Partner & Community

training needs• Regional workshops• ES Tools: Vulnerability Risk

Assessments, EIAs, Audits• CCA Approaches and Designs• Holistic (Closed Loop)

Development • Sustainable Living

Local Advocacy

• Identify opportunities for positive local advocacy• E.g. China Local ENGOs

Knowledge Management

Linking Partners into supporting networks to increase their capacities

• Micah Network• CAN• Government Contacts • Partners as Knowledge Leaders• Specialist Consultants

Resourcing

• Tools – See Environmental Sustainability Resources

• Workshops• Networking• Action Learning• Linking ES and CCA into DRR & WATSAN

Cross Cutting Issues

• Gender

• Children

• Local Church

Community Participatory Flood Risk Decision Making in Malawi

Participatory Decision Making

Environmental Sustainability in Disaster Management

Disaster Risk Reduction

Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change Adaptation: Are they so different?

DRR • build resilience to

recurring past disasters

• Achieved by creating or strengthening local capacities

• Influence national & international policy and legislation

CCA • build resilience to

predicted extreme weather

• Achieved by creating or strengthening local capacities

• Influence national & international policy and legislation

Linking Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change Adaptation

Disaster Crunch Model

Linking DRR & Climate Change

Climate Change Mitigation

Climate Change Adaptation

Community Preparedness & ResponseCommunity built monsoon evacuation route Bangladesh

Adaptation through Disaster Risk Reduction

Participatory Assessment of Disaster Risks

Sustainable Projects – Do No Harm

WATSAN

Tearfund Tube Well in Darfur

Agriculture

Kenya: Alley CroppingProtecting & improving poor soils

Agriculture

Natural Reforestation in Niger

Shelter

Flood Resilient House – flood escape platform

Adaptation Approaches to Environmental Degradation & Climate Change

Community Radio in Afghanistan

Education & Awareness

Local Advocacy

Community Advocacy in Bangladesh

Livelihoods

Tearfund beneficiaries harvesting a chilli crop

Drought

Zai technique in Burkina Faso

Desertification

Wells and dykes support Nomadicfixation sites in Niger

Rainwater catchment bunds in India

Rapid Rainfall Runoff

Floods

Floating gardens in Bangladesh

Flood protection in Afghanistan through riverbank planting

Floods

Adapting to Floods

Getting Ready for the Floods: Practical Action Nepal

Renewable Energy

Wind Power in Sri Lanka