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Integrating local and indigenous knowledge into river basin management for effective
climate change adaptation
Bonty Botumile, James Cumming, Sabrina Chesterman, Stephanie Midgley
10 March 2011AfricaAdapt Conference, Addis Ababa
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Outline• What is RCCP?• Vulnerable transboundary regions• Scales: from transboundary river basin to
communities• Objectives of research• Methodology and early results• Lessons learned• Challenges• Way forward
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What is the RCCP?
Purpose: To enable transboundary adaptation to climate
change, with equitable access to climate funding, in Southern Africa
Implemented by OneWorld Sustainable Investments
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Vulnerable transboundary regions
Zambezi River Basin
Okavango River Basin
Malawi and surrounds
Lower Limpopo River Basin
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Scales: from transboundary river basin to communities
• Why Okavango Basin• Interactive Framework - that allows
communities to modify and customise• Giving communities a voice and platform
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Okavango River Basin
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Objectives
• Gather IK from custodians• Validate findings• Integrate with science• Inform RCCP transboundary adaptation
responses• Replicable and transferable methodologies
and lessons
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Methodology
• Study sites• Tools: storytelling, interviews, surveys,
shadowing, focus groups, seasonal calendars, traditional festivals etc
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Methodology
• Questions: key focus on water– Sources: surface water, groundwater, rainfall– Perceptions and forecasting– Coping mechanisms– Natural resource protection, harvesting and storage– Livelihoods– Knowledge dissemination
• Gender/youth
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Lessons learned
• Tap into existing structures e.g. OKACOM, Basin Wide Forum, Okavango Research Institute
• Hidden vulnerability• Social complexities• Validation / triangulation
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Challenges
• Managing Expectations• Handout Mentality• Sample Representivity- Is it reflective of basin
issues• Scaling it up to basin level in line with our
vision (given politics, institutions)• Time and Patience consuming
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Way Forward
• Keep research contextualised• Validation of IK• Information Dissemination • Participatory Adaptation Strategy• Engaging with OKACOM on integrating IK,
science, institutions to keep it sustainable