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1. Project Description:

Poverty-stricken & marginalized communities of Kamala River Basin have been regularly bumping by climate change disasters. This hardship provides rationale to this project how vulnerable people are coping the impacts of climate change. So, the proposed project is specially designed to improve the resilience to climate change of all vulnerable communities through: a) Community-based campaign b) School's sensitization c) Theory & Field-based disaster preparedness training d) Action plan approaches at local & provincial level. The project will strengthened the local adaptive capacity and minimized the exposure of communities to climate change hazards where there will be co-existence of communities & natural ecosystems.

2. Project progress up to now

During June of 2020, we have successfully accomplish relevant literature review where we had reviewed pertinent articles and disasters hotspot map from ICIMOD, reports from Department Of Hydrology and Meteorology, climate change adaptation & Disaster Risk policies from the Government of Nepal to visualize the current situation of the project site as well as for the preparation of booklets, posters and education banners.

After all in July 2^nd week, we had printed all the outreach materials like Booklets, Wall Posters, Stationery cover and Education Banner for 10 community campaigns, 8 school campaigns and 5 disaster preparedness trainings. Then we visited two project sites at inception phase to assemble the information on current scenario of climate change induced disasters and socio-cultural aspects of the community. Local issues on climate change and the adaptation strategies were grasped through key informant survey.

We had communicated with community leaders, ward office, Community forest user's group presidents and school's headmaster to approach our program and dispatched our request letter to two concerned sites for campaigns. Those two sites were prone to landslides and agriculture & forest dependent livelihoods have been facing hardships because of rising climate change induced issues.

We had organized and successfully accomplished 7 community campaigns and 2 schools campaigns with full precautions and safety measures (distributed masks for every participants and sprayed hand sanitizer) in different focal areas like community halls, School and chautari in two different sites during 2 Aug and 7 Aug.

All the community's participants were handed with booklets containing the information on Present climate change scenario of Nepal, its impact and solutions. We affixed wall posters in almost every central place in the community and also distributed to some participants. All the campaigns were fully participation-based and we discussed them about the current scenario of climate change, its impact and their adaptation strategies to combat. We also discussed and instruct them about the possible solutions and adaptation strategies to prevent from climate change impacts by realizing the community's trends and people's stories.

Similarly, all the students and teachers who participated in campaigns were handed with stationery items (Notebook & Pen) and booklets. We had engaged with school children and asked them to share some climate change related trends, knowledge and stories of their community. We enlightened them about general knowledge of climate change, its impacts and what they can do individually to prevent from those impacts. We had also interviewed to teachers to know: a) The suitable methods to impart the climate change knowledge to school students and b) The best adaptation strategies for climate change impacts as perceived by the students.

We believe and now experienced that implementing the project in rural areas and engaging with local communities and schools children is so impactful. We are very happy to see the beautiful smile on communities and schools children face. Many of them even said that, "This very climate change campaign was the first experience in his/her life till now and they are very thankful for us ".

We, the team Teka Samuha Nepal would like to thank again and again to Korea SHE Foundation for happening this beautiful project and putting the smile to poor people and innocent students!!

3. Project Plan Forward

Till now, we have successfully accomplished 7 community-based campaigns out of 10 and 2 schools campaigns out of 8. All these accomplished campaigns were organized in Mahabharat range in Sindhuli District, prone to landslides and climate change hazards on agriculture sector. Rest of the campaigns will be organized in the lower belt of Sindhuli district, prone to floods and other climate change induced hazards.

Currently, the project site is in strict lockdown and the pandemic cases are taking peak and we are compelled to postpone the remaining project events till to the opening time. But in meanwhile, we are preparing some training contents for disaster preparedness training and mapping the disasters hotspot area through scanning past disasters incidents in the project site and reports.

We are very excited to step on next project phase after the lockdown ends!