1. Malawi Red Cross Presentation by Ethel Kaimila

2. Climate change is expected to make things worse.
Background
Malawi is one of the poorest countries in world, threatened by extreme climate risks
Climate change is expected to make things worse.
The communication and use of weather and climate predictions is a crucial challenge for adaptation, particularly among illiterate farmers and other vulnerable community members.

3. Droughts Context Climate risks Cyclones and flooding
El Niño and Droughts
Climate change

4. Malawi Meteorological Services Red Cross Climate change center
Partners
Malawi Meteorological Services
Red Cross Climate change center
Malawi Red Cross Society
Malawi Institute of Management
International Institute of Applied Sciences (IIASA)
Cheap & easy technology
Malawi: go to villages w/ message. All you need is [equip] 4

5. Purpose and objectives
Use of audio-visual tools to strengthen the capacity of small holder farmers in salima district to adapt to droughts and floods
Objectives
To accelerate and enhance training/learning in risk communication, to drought adaptation strategies by smallholder farmers
To learn from the communities on how they view and understand climate change and climate change adaptation and build on these understandings

6. Activities Stakeholder meetings Community sensitization
Community assessments KAP study, vulnerability capacity assessment (VCA) and other social learning methods
Review and application of climate change scenarios
Procurement of audio visual tools
Trainings
Production of audio visual tools
Participatory workshops
Monitoring and evaluation
Documentation of the process

7. participatory workshops using audio visual tools
Learning and sharing with the community on impact of floods/droughts, what happens during these disasters, what are the causes and how to predict the disasters and plan on how to do certain things differently

8. Expected progress:
Community involvement and participation in collecting information for developing audio-visual tools and other materials
store
process
Disseminate:
Cheap & easy technology
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9. Concerns and challenges
Designing and communicating weather forecasts to illiterate farmers
Difficult to convince donors to fund adaptation programs. It requires long term funding

10. Lessons learnt
Its not easy to mobilize funding for adaptation programs