scholarly journals Communicating climate change through radio programs in the Congo Basin: A guide to the preparation, monitoring and evaluation of science-policy dialogue radio programs

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tchoko M. ◽  
Perez-Terán A.S. ◽  
Tiane A.M.
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Congo Basin ◽  
Policy Dialogue ◽  
Radio Programs

The Science-Policy Dialogue for Climate Change Adaptation in Mountain Regions

2016 ◽  
pp. 271-292
Author(s):  
Thomas Kohler ◽  
André Wehrli ◽  
Elbegzaya Batjargal ◽  
Sam Kanyamibwa ◽  
Daniel Maselli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Policy Dialogue ◽  
Mountain Regions

scholarly journals The Questions of Who, What, and How in the Science - Policy Dialogue: Experiences from the Pan - Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ha Pham
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Policy Dialogue ◽  
Consultation Process ◽  
Science And Policy

The science‐policy interface in climate change adaptation became better managed over the past decades. However, the scientists and other knowledge producers, as well as policy makers still need to take bolder steps to more effectively engage with others to apply science and shape up policies. This paper aims to provide practical recommendations, intended to promote conversations between science and policy sectors to address climate change issues. Here, I used two different approaches to synthesize experiences and identify recommendations: a literature review and a case study. The paper stress main findings: (1) The linear communication model is still commonly involved in the science - policy dialogue and proved to be useful to increase the relevance of science and data products to decision makers. (2) When a gap between knowledge producer and knowledge user or decision maker exists, the need for a third party to specialize in bridging the gap become essential. (3) Indigenous people and knowledge must be involved in adaptation policy making based on legitimation local and traditional knowledge, designing the consultation process to broadly engage local and indigenous people, facilitating meaningful dialogues between traditional knowledge and science, and developing initiatives to strengthen skills and capacity of indigenous communities.

Dryland Degradation and Expansion: Implications for Mexican Policies from the Earth System Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Gabriel Lopez Porras
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Land Degradation ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
The Earth

Despite international efforts to stop dryland degradation and expansion, current dryland pathways are predicted to result in large-scale migration, growing poverty and famine, and increasing climate change, land degradation, conflicts and water scarcity. Earth system science has played a key role in analysing dryland problems, and has been even incorporated in global assessments such as the ones made by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. However, policies addressing dryland degradation, like the ‘Mexican programme for the promotion of sustainable land management’, do not embrace an Earth system perspective, so they do not consider the complexity and non-linearity that underlie dryland problems. By exploring how this Mexican programme could integrate the Earth system perspective, this paper discusses how ’Earth system’ policies could better address dryland degradation and expansion in the Anthropocene.

Shaping forest safety nets with markets: Adaptation to climate change under changing roles of tropical forests in Congo Basin

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 498-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johnson Nkem ◽  
Fobissie B. Kalame ◽  
Monica Idinoba ◽  
Olufunso A. Somorin ◽  
Ousseynou Ndoye ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Congo Basin ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Safety Nets ◽  
Changing Roles

scholarly journals Institutional Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation in Burkina Faso: How could We Go around Them?

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Fiacre Basson ◽  
Djibril S. Dayamba ◽  
Joel Korahire ◽  
Jean M. Dipama ◽  
Francois Zougmore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Institutional Barriers ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Key Stakeholders

Despite the existence of a National Adaptation Plan to climate change (NAP) in Burkina Faso, operationalizing adaptation still face a number of challenges. The current study focused on identifying institutional barriers to the strategic objectives of climate change adaptation (CCA) using a literature review and semi-structured interviews conducted with key stakeholders / resource persons involved in the implementation of the NAP. The results revealed a weak collaboration between the NAP steering institution and the ministerial departments covered by the NAP. This situation, first, hampers the implementation of adaptation actions and secondly, the monitoring reporting and verification of adaptation initiatives. Further, the analysis revealed that lack of financial resources poses constraints to many actions that were to be taken by the steering institution and therefore creates poor ownership of the NAP by the main stakeholders that should be actively involved in the NAP process. To cope with the various constraints, it is necessary to have strong political support in many aspects. For instance, it was judged that institutionalizing the role of climate change (CC) focal point within the ministries and embedding NAP monitoring and evaluation (M&E) objectives and indicators with existing functional M&E systems in the sectorial ministries will ease CCA actions integration in operational plans, their implementation and documentation. Moreover, it is relevant to have a continuous capacity building plan to keep stakeholders updated on climate change issues as this will support them in their mandate of mainstreaming CC into ministerial operational plans and lead to optimal CCA implementation and monitoring.

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