MOBILISING COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE
BACKGROUND
As the need to address the impacts of Global Warming and Climate Change were felt Pro-Vision and its network members, they decided to go for a specialized network to mobilize community response to global warming and climate change. Towards this end the fourteen NGOs, who were part of the network promoted “EARTH NET”.
Earth Net functions with Pro-Vision as the lead and co-ordinating partner and thirteen NGOs as implementing partners at the field level. As the aim was to cover the entire districts of Kanniyakumari, Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi, each partner covers three to four blocks as given below:
Issues addressed
Through various activities such as rallies, training, awareness programmes, campaign programmes, tree plantation, the partner NGOs addressed the following issues:
  • Global Warming, Climate Change and issues related to Environment
  • Life Style Related Diseases
  • Agriculture, Organic Farming and Food Security
  • Preservation of Natural Resources including Forest, Energy, Water Bodies and Marine Resources (Natural Resource Management)
  • Community Based Disaster Risk Management
Focused areas of intervention
  • Capacity building
  • Research
  • Publications
  • Community based interventions
  • Linkages
Capacity building
As part of capacity building, Pro-Vision organised trainings for the directors and staff of Networking NGOs on climate change and its implications. Due to the capacity building efforts, the partner NGOs gained clarity on the issues related to global warming and climate change and developed skills to undertake community based intervention at the field.
Sl.No.TrainingParticipants
1Training to Directors
28
2Training to staff of Partner NGOs
42
3Training on Research Report preparation
27
4Training on Climate change and its implication to the Southern districts
28
Research
A scientific research study was initiated by Pro-Vision and 13 partners in the three intervention districts. A detailed report is attached in PDF form. The findings and the recommendations of the study are used as base materials for resource mobilisation and further action.
Publications
Publication is one of the important media to create awareness among the people. Based on the need of the people, Pro-Vision has brought out five pamphlets in commemoration of World Earth Day and World Environment Day and it was developed upon the theme of the days.
Community based interventions
The partners have undertaken various community based interventions at the village and block level. Some of them have integrated climate change adaption with their on going project interventions.
Pro-Vision and the partners are confident that the new initiative is a need based one and the steps taken for the community based interventions like Tree plantation, rally to observance of world Earth day and World Environment day.