Climares
Climares focuses on agricultural smallholders, fisherfolk, urban outdoor workers, pastoralists
and displaced people. All these groups have high vulnerability to climate change. Moreover, these groups represent a large share of African populations. Climares supports these populations to know how weather patterns and climate change will impact their – already precarious or threatened – livelihoods and solicit appropriate responses. Through participatory digital and in person research, co-created climate storylines and advocacy methods, Climares enables that weather and climate information becomes meaningful and actionable.
Climares investigates climate threats for at risk populations in a variety of climatic zones, socioeconomic contexts, and institutional climate response conditions. It aims to support the agency and resilience of communities by creating and supporting Knowledge∞Action (K∞A) networks. These networks are composed of all stakeholders that have an interest in the resilience of a population group, including affected communities.
There are many initiatives – through weather stations, satellite imaging and machine learning – to improve climate data availability in Africa. What remains a challenge is to know what the changing weather will do for at-risk populations and how early action and adaptation can effectively build on people’s resilience needs and strategies.
Knowledge∞Action networks
Governments, especially at the local level, usually do not have the resources to protect populations against climate change. At-risk communities are too vulnerable to cope by themselves, despite their local knowledge and resilience strategies. Dealing with climate change therefore requires the involvement of multiple stakeholders.
In the case of smallholders, for example, stakeholders may include commercial parties
like seed providers and traders, NGOs developing projects to improve agriculture,
research institutes and the ministry of agriculture. Climares aims to organize and
support these actors in K∞A networks that will become vehicles for the needs-based co
production of weather and climate information services and translate this information into action for better resilience strategies.
Although stakeholders have varied interests and power positions, they share an interest in the population group’s resilience which provides an incentive to participate in a K∞A network for joint learning, analysis, planning, resource mobilization and advocacy.
By working across five countries and with five populations, Climares will generate knowledge that is relevant for other contexts and populations. By working with 11 K∞A networks Climares will yield insights in the factors that help or hinder such networks, which will lead to a model approach that can be applied beyond the areas where Climares works.
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Climares core values CITE
Climares is the product of co-creative practices that will continue throughout the project. Climares is inter-disciplinary and the partners represent a wide range of expertise. Climares is trans-disciplinary. It works on the basis that all actors are knowledgeable and can meaningfully contribute to knowledge accumulation, including citizen knowledge, private sector and societal insights, and academic and non-academic research. Climares is strongly committed to equal partnerships
