Hello CRiSTAL Team
This is Tara Prasad Gnyawali, Livelihoods Specialist, (MA Sociology/Anthropology-1995) working in livelihoods theme since last 16 years. Recently, I am working with WWF Nepal Program Office for last six years.
I benefitted from CRiSTAL to integrate livelihoods issues in to community based climate change adaptation planning. Recengly, we have carried out two major study two diverse ecological zone mountain and Tarai using this CRiSTAL Methods which was very useful too. Now we are in the process of planning development and intervention design based on CRiSTAL study recommendation and our own working learning of mainstreaming of Sustainable Livelihoods Approach.
1. Though we contracted Consultant to use CRiSTAL approach and working based on their recommendation. I would like to ask CRiSTAL team whether there is formal or web based training module that we could benefit. I am very familiar about SLA approach and mainstraming this approach since last one and half decade. Yet I am still found theoritically clear about linking CRiSTAL with Disastere resilience building, Ecosystem Assessment and Protected Area assessment where community is less engage and government and local state engage more.
2. I want to share my observation and learning of working on climate change and livelihoods to this forum and looking appropriate feedback from forum audience
3. I am also interested to learn from other who are using this methods and context where they are working with
4. I am also looking opportunity to enhance and sharp to integrate this Approach (CRiSTAL with SLA framework looking our own context. eg how community defined assets, how community diversify there livelihoods strategy based on weather pattern. How community response as coping to disaster . Though these may or may not be directly link with Climate change but as social science student I found very difficult to prove all these (specially disaster) are whether due to of climate change or natural process. But any how the community should protect, prepare and able to response unexpected disaster which impact and make weak resilience to survive and cope
Thanks all forum audience and CRiSTAL team. I would happy if you email, communicate and support
my emails are tara.gnyawali@wwfnepal.org and t_gyawali2002@yahoo.com
Tara Prasad Gnyawali
Nepal
Dear Tara,
many thanks for your forum post and for sharing your experiences with us. We are very interested in learning about how CRiSTAL has been applied, and what sort of experiences people have made with the tool.
The short answer to your question about web-based training module is that it doesn't exist. However, we are in a process of gathering feedback from users, based on which we will update the tool and our website. So we highly appreciate your suggestion and will get back to you after gathering more feedback. In the short term, we plan to put one filled out CRiSTAL from online, as a case study and an example for users.
On our website, we also plan to develop the experiences section, where we want to compile more studies, including from people like you. If you have any reports to share, these would be highly appreciated. You may use the reporting template available in the resources section.
Finally, we will soon do an online survey for CRiSTAL users. Please stay tuned.
Best regards,
Marius
Hi Marius
Thanks a lot for your query.
Of course, it is our professionalism to share, learn and reflect what we thought and do for enviornment and poverty. Maiaus, due to of long and rigorous field plan I could not ensure to response immidiately within short time. yes of course when I will back from field I will share with you and forum audience. However, I am also interest to veryfy our work to climate and livelihoods works with community to this forum audience later. Be in touch and email.
Thanks you and all CRiSTAL team once again
Tara
many thanks for your answer and willingness to share your insights. I look forward to getting your reports.
Let's stay in touch
Hello Tara,
I am working in Humla on DIPECHO project, for Mission East, a Danish NGO. Above DRR we have food security and water & Sanitation projects. For both projects (food and water), effect of climate change can seriously impact the project results but I could not find so far local research that demonstrate observable effects or changes in cropping type/pattern or water scarcity...(although recently a potential GLOF threat was identified in Limi VDC based on a increase of flood frequency in an area which was not supposed to be prone to GLOF (ICIMOD research 2001) and this is possibly an effect of glacier melting due to CC).
Concerning disaster itself, I have carried out a risk assessment in 31 communities of south Humla. Clearly disaster (mainly landslide and epidemic) are due to human practices (deforestation / low hygiene / extension of agriculture land in hazardous places) and if CC contribute to increase disasters frequency (change and intensity on weather pattern), it is probably going to be insignificant for a while compared to the human practices and its evolution. It is maybe specific to mountainous area?
I am planning to learn / use CRISTAL tool as well to see if the it can help us to adapt better to CC. I am not sure about the result and would be glad to see some outputs from you own use of the tool. I see also that there is not so many people registered to this forum but at least 2 of them are working in Nepal :-) It also took 8 months for CRISTAL administrator to validate my registration...!
Best
Christophe
Dear Christophe,
many thanks for your message - I hope you and Tara can learn from each other's experiences.
I can assure you that the website will now be administered and moderated more actively. Also, we plan to add more reports to the experiences section, so if you do have anything to share, please let me know.