Rupantaran Nepal and its consortium partners Samuhik Abhiyan, Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) and Association of Village Development Committees in Nepal (NAVIN) conducted District Training on Climate Change and Community-based Adaptation Planning- Phase II in 30 Districts of Nepal from July, 2015 to January, 2017 (18 Months). The contract of assignment signed with Asian Development Bank under Mainstreaming Climate Change Risk Management in Development project of Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR). The main aim of the district training on Climate Change and Community-based Adaptation planning was to enable local planners to integrate measures to address climate change risks into the decentralized local planning process. More specifically
- Raise awareness of local leaders, media and the civil society representatives at the district level about the impacts of climate change and the need for integrating adaptation into local development plans.
- Train local planners – district development officers, district line agency personnel, and Village Development Committee representatives – on the concepts of climate change projections, impacts and methods to integrate adaptation into local development planning.
- Transfer knowledge and skills to participants in understanding and applying tools for community-based vulnerability assessment, risk assessment and identifying priorities for adaptation.
- Enhance participants’ abilities to facilitate participatory local development and adaptation planning within the framework of Nepal’s decentralized planning process.
The assignment activities were timely and successfully completed. Under this assignment RN and its consortium has undertaken following actions;
Inception report: Rupantaran and its consortium partners undertook SHs consultation to prepare inception report including monitoring and evaluation Plan, gender and social inclusion strategy and communication and outreach plan. Prior to submit inception report, RN organized inception workshop in presence Secretary of Ministry of Population and Environment Dr. Kul Chandra Poudel and wider Stakeholders to share and receive feedback on the implementation modality and strategy of the district training
Revision training manual: RN and its consortium reviewed, updated and printed existed training manual on climate change and community-based adaptation planning. RN received is ISBN number 993700172-2 from the Central Library of Tribhuvan University.
Organization of Training of Trainers (ToT): A training of trainers training was organized to develop Co-facilitators and common understanding among all team on training process and training manual. The Co-facilitator were selected in close coordination of with MoPE and the participants were from National Planning Commission (NPC), Local Development Training Academy (LDTA), Ministries and its regional training center- Health, Forest, Livestock development, District Development Committee (DDC) and Civil Society Organization(CSOs). Total 28 number of participants were successfully completed the training and mobilized them in district training.
Completion of District Training: In close coordination with MoFALD and leadership of DDC, 30 events district training on climate change and community-based adaptation planning were organized in 30 districts in 5 lots. Total 817 including 40 % women were trained on the climate change, vulnerability assessment, adaptation planning and its integration in local development planning process. Likewise a Google groups formed exchanged the learning and experiences in the application of the training which is still alive and functional.
Conduction of Follow-up Monitoring and Early Impact Assessment: the monitoring of the training was done in different stages of the training by using participatory. At the end of the assignment, RN undertook follow-up monitoring and early impact assessment of the training. Based on this assessment a video was developed and documented the learning and experiences.
Completion Assignment: A final project completion workshop including learning and sharing was done with wider stakeholder in leadership of MoPE and finally submitted the project completion report to MoPE and ADB