JOIN ONE OF THE TICCI LEARNING PLATFORMS ON MAKING ADAPTATION INTERVENTIONS CONFLICT SENSITIVE IN GHANA, KENYA OR BURKINA FASO

Background:

In response to increasing climate variability, national governments, international organizations and NGOs are currently implementing new types of policies aimed at climate change adaptation and mitigation. Climate variability sometimes goes hand in hand with conflict situations (e.g. pastoralists versus farmers), but it can also be a driver of solidarity and new types of collaboration. Little is known about the role of interventions in preventing these conflicts and/or offering new perspectives for collaboration, or making livelihood systems more resilient.

Since 2013, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research through the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR-SARI) and CARE International, both in Ghana, l'institut de l'environnement et de recherches agricoles (INERA) in Burkina Faso, Indigenous Livelihoods Enhancement Partners (ILEPA) in Kenya and Utrecht University in The Netherlands, are collaborating in the 4-years’ research programme ‘Towards more inclusive, cooperative and participative climate change interventions (TICCI)’, doing field research in Kenya, Ghana and Burkina Faso’. The ultimate goal of the project is to enhance people's adaptive capacity to climate change, particularly focusing on small-scale farmers and pastoralists in the arid and semi-arid regions of Ghana, Burkina Faso and Kenya. More specifically, the aim of the research is to enhance the capacity of policy makers and practitioners to make climate change adaptation policies and interventions less conflictive and more inclusive, focusing on farmers and pastoralist in arid and semi-arid areas of Ghana, Burkina Faso and Kenya.

The goal of this new learning platform:

In the context of our research, we want to bring together and systematize experiences, while supporting researchers, practitioners and policy makers in their attempts to make interventions more inclusive and less conflictive. We have an interest to involve researchers, practitioners and policy makers with knowledge about climate change interventions, and who are interested in sharing their experiences about how to make interventions more inclusive and conflict sensitive. Selected participants are requested to share knowledge and experiences, in exchange for the following benefits:

  • Participants will be invited to research seminars/writers workshops
  • Participants will be supported in analyzing field experiences and finding solutions (peer review)
  • Participants will have free access to the database (to be elaborated by TICCI) and will receive access to relevant literature….
  • Participants will participate in collective efforts to develop new tools for monitoring/ making interventions less conflictive/conflict resolution
  • Participants will be offered possibilities for participating in Summer schools (Utrecht and Ghana.

Selections of active participants are invited to attend an international conference (Netherlands, Ghana, Kenya, and Burkina Faso) during the project lifespan.

How to apply?

Interested researchers, practitioners and policy makers are invited to send an expression of interest, containing the following information (deadline: 1 march):

  1. Name
  2. Educational background and function in organization.
  3. Professional organization.
  4. Motivation for participation.
  5. Example of type of Climate Change intervention/type of conflict involved/conflict resolution/cooperation dimensions (give a description 500 words, indicating what the conflict is about/ and or what kind of collaboration is involved)

Contact Information: for further information and enquiries, please contact- Thomas Ayamga on: Thomas.Ayamga@care.org/ +233(0)209120941 or +233(0)242933031