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In this video, Tim gives a two minute summary on what this online workshop is for and how it works. In this program, working side-by-side with him, you will develop a climate action plan in 6 to 8 weeks. Mr. Magee is CSDi’s Executive Director, and the author of A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation, Routledge, Oxford, England.
Mr. Magee is CSDi’s Executive Director and the author of A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation, Routledge, Oxford, England.
This short video gives a behind-the-scenes introduction to needs assessments. It also expresses the importance of working closely with community members at the beginning of the process of developing a climate action plan.
It also offers some tips and pointers on how to set up a meeting with 10 or 12 community members and inspire them to discuss climate challenges that they’re facing. You will take careful notes and then, with a simple voting technique, help them to prioritize these challenges and to and to determine which is the most important one for them to start on 1st.
Today, you will take the prioritized list of climate challenges that your community members developed and take the first step in forming a project design. You rearrange the climate challenges into a formal outline by arranging groups of a climate challenge, what is the cause of that climate challenge, and what negative impact it’s having on the community.
I ask that you do this with just two of the community’s challenges. That’s because as we begin researching solutions to these challenges and inserting project activities into the outline, the outline grows considerably, and the project becomes increasingly complex.
Developing a theory of how you plan to address the problem statement and project outline developed during Assignment Two.
You concluded Assignment Two with a set of community identified problems organized into a simple project outline. You also wrote a short and concise description of the combined problems. Now is your opportunity to develop a theory of how to solve the problems and to begin exploring specific activities that will fulfill your theory.
Good morning. Last week you researched programs and activities that would provide solutions to your community’s climate challenges and added them to your project outline.
This week you’re going to verify that the programs and activities you chose will actually work to solve the climate change challenges.
Last week you researched scientific papers to make sure that your project’s programs show evidence of working.
At this point, your project design is well enough developed that you can show it to people, and they will understand the scope of the project. I suggest you share your project with two types of people: community members and a potential foundation donor.
This week you’re going to take your project outline from Assignment 3 and copy and paste it into a logical framework—or logframe. A logical framework approach uses a more sophisticated matrix than your project outline has.