Enhancing Local Level Climate Adaptation Systems in Musanze District, Rwanda
GanzAfrica takes a systems level intervention to strengthen local adaptation capacities through a bottom-up, locally driven, multi-sectoral and youth centered approach. Climate adaptation initiatives in many countries are largely top-down, where decisions are made at central level due to limited local capacity of local actors. We deploy young adaptation champions in local departments of agriculture, land, and environment, to facilitate and coordinate adaptation initiatives. They will consult stakeholders and gather local perspectives, create inventories of data and evidence including documenting local knowledge and practices, setting up a demo plot to showcase adaptation practices, develop stakeholder collaboration and coordination frameworks, train local champions, set up community climate information, and community peer-learning systems. In the process, we create a platform for communities, sectors, and partners to collaborate, co-learn, co-create, test and co-implement evidence informed, context specific adaptation measures. Lessons drawn are harnessed to scale adaptation approaches and inform national policy.
