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LAYA-INECC PROGRESS REPORT( June 2010- May 2011)

Second year PROGRESS Report

Climate change advocacy and interventions” supporting the

entitlements and capabilities of local communities towards

sustainable living”( June 2010-May 2011)

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Annual Progress report on the project “Climate change advocacy and interventions”—Supporting the entitlements and capabilities of local communities towards sustainable living

June 2010-May 2011 Laya-INECC’s activities in the second year

This report presents the progress on the activities for the period June 2010 – May 2011 as part of the second year commitment. Building upon the progress of the work undertaken in the first year, the second year of activities has been more eventful for INECC-Laya. The activities and programmes revolved around the following broad thematic areas:

I. Towards Influencing Policies in favour of the Marginalized Majority

II. Youth and Climate Change

III. Mainstreaming Climate Change

IV. Linking and Learning on Climate Change

I. Towards Influencing Policies in favour of the Marginalised

In an effort towards creating awareness on Climate change and NAPCC with CSO’s two important sessions were facilitated. One in the North Eastern part of India and the other in Chennai. The training programme in Imphal, Manipur was organised with the support of CSD(Centre for social development) & INECC and in Chennai with the support of FCFC & INECC in July and September respectively. Both these programmes were strategically important largely from the engaging civil society in the climate debate from the perspective of the vulnerable Forest ecosystem and unsustainable development activities in the North East and the coastal vulnerability in Tamil Nadu. About 80 key grassroots NGOs participated in the two programmes.

Workshop on Climate change in Imphal

We facilitated a three day session with CSD (Centre for Social Development, Imphal, North east India) from the 28-31st of July 2010. The programme witnessed participation from 24 organisations from Manipur. The programme involved presentation and deliberations on the following areas:

Discussion in buzz groups 1. Climate change in the Indian context- the macro- micro linkages

2. Ecosystem perspective on climate change impacts

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3. Climate change and NAPCC

4. Climate change and international policy

5. Energy audit

6. The Clean Development Mechanism( CDM)

7. The cluster approach to energy security in tribal regions of India. This training programme was the first of its kind in the region which provided space for developing

understanding on a host of climate related issues especially linking the larger climate issues to the N-E

context.

Consultation on Influence of Climate Change on Ecology

This consultation was jointly organised by INECC and another network called FCFC( Forum

for collective forms of cooperation) in Chennai on the 4th of September.

The gathering comprised 45 participants from the academia, civil society and subject matter specialists.

The prime focus of this consultation was to go beyond the general understanding on the impacts of

climate change on the coastal communities and to look at climate change from an academic and scientific

lens in order to respond to different manifestations of climate change on the coastal ecosystems and the

communities. Annexure 1- Report on” consultation on influence of climate change on ecology)

This programme provided an opportunity to deliberate and discuss on the following:

The key issues from Bali to Cancun

Agriculture and low carbon pathway

CDM and agriculture

Wetlands and climate change

Animal husbandry and emissions

Integrated state policy in relation to adaptation and mitigation measures in coastal and wetland areas

Climate change and water issues with reference to NAPCC

A three day session was also facilitated in Cochin, Kerala among grassroots organisations.. The workshop

was Regional workshop aimed to facilitate Understanding ‘climate change’ and its impact from the

community perspective. The following issues were discussed and deliberated upon

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Impact on livelihood practices resource base and overall livelihood

Coping mechanism

Alternatives

The direct outreach from this programme has been close to 16 NGOs. Organisations participating in the

training programme worked among Tribal communities, Dalits, Marginal farmers. This workshop

provided tremendous insight on the significance of such sessions at the grassroots which is quintessential

for demystifying the climate phenomenon and recognising grassroots wisdom in chalking out relevant

alternatives.

Consultation on Low carbon Path

INECC organised a 3 day national consultation in Delhi on the “Low carbon energy path- “Empowering the

leapfrog of the marginalised” “from 5-7th may 2011. The consultation witnessed the presence of key

advocacy groups and grassroots organisation from across the country. The objective was to provide

space for sharing of low carbon related experiences among the participants at the grassroots and

secondly to delve deeper on some of the core issues of concern towards facilitating the transition to a

low carbon energy development pathway viz livelihoods, urbanisation, transportation, water, agriculture

and forests etc. This meeting was significant in terms of brainstorming on the way forward on the

mentioned themes. Input sessions from subject matter specialists helped in putting the issues in broader

framework from an action and policy perspective. (Annexure 2-Report on LCP consultation)

INECC-Laya has been successful in mobilising civil society around NAPCC as part of discussions on energy. We

have directly reached out to CSOs in two key regions- viz the North East and Tamil Nadu and have organised

workshops and training sessions which have helped organisations in linking the knowledge to their respective

contexts and facilitate relevant actions .The consultation on “Low carbon path-empowering the leapfrog of

the marginalised “ provided a way forward in terms of identifying key problems and therefore strategising

our actions for influencing policy decisions from a grassroots perspective. INECC and its member organisations

have also participated in several other platforms and have brought forth key advocacy issues to be lobbied

with the decision makers.

II. Youth and Climate change

There has been a strategic emphasis on relating to the youth towards instilling confidence among them

primarily because they were increasingly feeling disappointed after the Copenhagen debacle. Initiatives

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were taken to plan for the second round of youth meeting, after Yuva Drishti 1. Following Yuva Drishti 1

we had strategized our activities in order to educate youth across different ecosystems and

backgrounds through youth activists from the respective ecosystems.

Yuva Drishti-2

(Yuva Drishti 2)- Youth Activist meeting’ was planned in Mumbai in October 2010. The primary idea of this

meeting was to have a small group of climate ‘activists’ to share their work in relation to the climate issue

and reflect on key concerns affecting youth and decide on future course of action at the local and the

global level in terms of challenging the system, strengthening the youth mandate and committing towards

searching for alternatives. (Annexure 3-Report on Yuva Drishti 2)

Session with technical youth at IIT Mumbai

A session on “Climate Change in the context of Development” was facilitated by Laya-INECC in the

department of CTARA( Centre for technological adaptation for rural areas), Indian Institute of

Technology,(IIT Bombay) on the 20th of September 2010. The objective was to shape understanding on

social challenges related to technology dissemination in rural areas with the larger objective for the need

for treading on a green development path. The programme was interesting for the participants as it

presented solutions/ community based green technologies which could support adaptation and

mitigation in the rural areas. Case studies on micro hydro, sustainable farming, improves cooking stoves

and LED based solars were also shared with the participants. The session was of great relevance to the

department as it focuses on developing and appropriating rural technologies. There was a felt need for

collaboration in terms of sharing involvement between technical departments and on field working

organisations in order to synergise and disseminate relevant technologies at the grassroots. Possibilities

for student internship and training programmes were also explored. A session per semester has been

principally agreed upon.

Climate Champs certificate course

An innovative course module with elite youth has been initiated in collaboration with INECC-

Samalochana in Anakapalle, Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh. Most of the youth studying

in these private colleges are from high profile background with high afford ability when compared

with their rural counterparts .They are either from business families or parents working as

government servants. Majority of these youth are significant contributors to climate change as

adopt or dream to adopt lavish life styles.

The objectives behind this initiative has been

To create urban and semi urban youth force which will be sensitive to climate change and

conscious of politics of climate change and justice.

To sensitise youth on issues of climate justice and alternatives so that they become critical of their

own life styles and set an example to others by adopting climate friendly life styles.

To create a youth force which will lead campaign against climate change.

Schedule of activities comprising the course:

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40 Youth from Dr Himasekhar Degree college have taken part across 2 batches in the CLIMATE CHAMPS course.

A 10 day theoretical sessions in the college followed by an exposure at the end of the course was organized where students are exposed to the issue of chemical pollution across Visakhapatnam district.

Theoretical sessions involve use of creative means like self exploration exercises, games, films and cultural art forms.

A comprehensive selection process is followed in picking the students for the course.

The youth who complete the certificate course are awarded a certificate duly signed by the organisers

and a committee is expected to be setup comprising of members of the host organization and the college

faculty which will also be a monitoring committee for the project

Two batches have been organised between September2010 to January2011. 42 people participated and

40 students passed out of which 30 are females.

Outcome:

‘Climate champs club’ has been constituted in the college comprising of students who passed out from the course. The task of this club will be to sensitise other students and public at large on the issues of climate change and environment.

They are in the process of publishing a bulletin on the course and like photo exhibition on the issue of climate change in their college so as to sensitise other students who are not part of the course.

A report has been submitted to district collector, Visakhapatanam on how environmental pollution is affecting people of Visakhapatanam and large scale thermal and nuclear power plants will destroy the climate with various demands being made from marginlised peoples perspective.

The group is in the process of designing a campaign against plastic and solid waste management with the Anakapalle municipality.

It is to be mentioned that this course has been generating lot of interest among students and INECC will be willing to support a couple of more such batches in the next phase. Youth Summit in Guwahati & Gangtok

Acknowledging the need to bring youth from North East into the climate deliberations and to voice their

opinions and perceptions in one of the worlds most rich biodiversity zones yet a vulnerable ecosystem of which

they were a part resulted in organising a series of workshop in this region.. Workshops were organised

strategically in Guwahati and Gangtok. These workshops were the first of its kind in the region which brought

together youth from different disciplines like arts, commerse, business, management to discuss on the various

issues and aspect of the climate debate and to contextualise their experiences

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Youth Alliance for Climate Action (YAC ) Guwahati, has been supported by resource materials for organising several meetings in different states in north east India with school students/ college going youth/ professional / activists/ churches/ media etc

Meeting with Marginalised Youth

Laya through its women and youth empowerment unit organised a workshop on climate change and

youth on March 12-13, 2011 in Visakhapatnam. 62 Youth from 5 districts (Srikakulam, Vizianagaram,

Visakhapatnam and Khammam) participated, of which 22 were females attended the workshop. The

discussions were around the science of climate change , national and internal politics and ethics of the

climate change. Sentitisation around national and international politics were briefly discussed. An

exercise was undertaken to assessing the energy need with the group. They understood and accepted

that present system of energy production (Nuclear & coal based) was main polluter of the climate, and

understood the need to demand the government for alternative energy sources like mini hydro, solar

energy, solar lantern etc. participants promised to do the similar kind of awareness meetings with the

youth and youth groups in their respective villages and working area.

Apart from the workshop we conducted 15 village levels meeting on climate change its impact on forest

region.

1.Devaramadugula m: 1 F:18

2.Godugurai m: 12 F:17

3.Penikilapadu m:10 F:12

4.Chaparathipalem m: 5 F:15

5.Ravulapadu m: 10 F:5

6.Revatipalem m: 5 F:15

7.Thotakurapalem m: 4 F:12

8. Mamidimanuguda m: 40 F: 15

9. Boddamanuguda m: 30 F: 10

10. Seethampeta m: 20 F: 10

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11. Jankaramputtu m- 20 F-20

12.Ramuluputtu m-15 F-25

13. Sampangiputtu m-10 F-15

14. Tamarada F-15

15. Rangapalli m- 20 F-05

Total = 411 (M- 202, F-209)

In the village level meetings the focus was to hep youth explore the impact of the climate change in the

forest region. Depletion of forest, depletion of the ground water, streams and other water resources, un

even rain fall effecting the agriculture, excessive heat, unusual fever temperature around 102-105

degrees were shared. We explored on ways how youth and communities were dealing with the changing

climatic situation which was affecting their agricultural practices. Community was aware there was a

drastic change taking place in the climate but they didn’t seem to have the knowledge why and how it

was happening. They are changing their agricultural practice system in relation to the ploughing,seeding

etc.

Climate education:

This aspect was taken with an increased degree of responsibility with the understanding that there is an

immediate urgency of relevant education materials on climate change especially at the grassroots. INECC

has been supporting partners like (CED, SCINDeA) who have been involved with collation and

development of education materials for different youth groups in the urban and rural youth in Mumbai

and Tamil Nadu respectively.CED, Mumbai has taken ahead its engagement with the students in terms of

encouraging students to take up specific environmental/ climate change topics for their course project

study. CED facilitated the process by providing resource materials, publication, CDs and knowledge

sharing.3 prominent Colleges in Mumbai are working closely with CED on climate change. Scindea is

coming up with a publication in Tamil for school children which will be adapted and translated to other

mainstream languages.

Pilot workshop with Students in Mumbai

CED led a three-hour workshop on Basics of Climate Change at the BMN College of Homes Science, attended by 135 women students of home science and computer science on 10th December 2010.The highlight of the programme was a presentation a study of students’ awareness on Climate change. The study by three students was initiated by CED, using the teachers help, before the workshop. The workshop included viewing of CED’s trigger film : City Calling, as well as some education material available on the Internet. CED used the first version of the Educational Module, developed by it. In another event, CED organised a day long Exposure trip on Climate Change to Dahanu. Around 50 students participated in this trip. The students were taken to a remote fishing village, bordering Gujarat for an interaction on climate issues and to understand the problem of pollution like the oil spill with Fishermen and Local residents. Students from different colleges took part in this. A visit was also made to Zai fishing village. There, the students were sent out in groups to visit and talk to the families. The groups

leaders presented their observations at the group discussion

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Presentation of observations by group representatives

Students interacting with fisherfolk family

Pilot Workshops with Students in Bangalore In Bangalore, CED is reaching out to students through 3 different levels of programmes:

A basic level session with schools-. A workshop was organised at St. Lourdes High School on Jan 29th,

2011 where CED gave a lecture on the basic science and politics and just an introduction to development

issues relating of Climate Change. There was participation from 160 students from the 9th & 10th

Standard. The Students were introduced to what were Green house gases and the causes of emissions.

The session was made very interactive, with the students sharing some of their understanding about the

causes of emissions being vehicles, industries, cutting trees and so on. The lecture also covered points on

the effects of global warming where some of the students pointed out sea level rise, melting of the glaciers

and so on. Issues of equity comparison at the global as well as the city and village level and finally the

session was rounded off by suggesting means we could adopt like composting waste, reducing electricity

usage and public transportation as ways to fight against Global warming. One of the teachers was keen on

knowing about Waste Management and taking it up a project for students because that is one of things

the school could adopt immediately. The students were provided with visuals of the science of climate

change.

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Session with schools in Bangalore

The advanced programme on Jan 27: With the student members of the “Science Club” of St.Joseph's College

who are already “aware” of climate change, issues of growth, development, equity and Climate Change,

and brought the focus to what Civil Society has been doing. 18 students participated in this discussion. A

few students among them have shown interest to take up different projects with CED. Some of the projects, the students were to take up in the vacation were:

1. Which population of Bangalore is keeping the Carbon footprint low?

2. Comparing the carbon footprints of cities such as Shanghai, New York, Bali, Mumbai,

Bangalore.

3. What do I see Bangalore being in 2020?

CED approached four schools namely the Bangalore Public School, Indiranagar Cambridge High School, St.

Mira's High School and St. Anne's Convent in December. All the schools felt that it is important to have the

programme on creating awareness among children on Climate Change. All the schools have requested to

approach them in June-July ie., as soon as the academic year begins; so that the programme can be held

during the first term of the academic year.

Supporting volunteers has been its third level of engagement.CED, has been encouraging students to take

up specific environmental/ climate change topics for their course project study. CED facilitated the

process by providing resource materials, publication, CDs and knowledge sharing.3 prominent Colleges in

Mumbai are working closely with CED on climate change.

Connect with 10/10/10

Laya-INECC connected with 350.org on 10/10/10. We contributed during the planning meetings to focus

on energy in particular and subsequently one of the many programms on 10/10/10 focussed on solar

lighting systems. In Mumbai there was a march with solar lanterns on Carter road. A solar jig was also

performed to spread the idea of renewables. A video was also prepared by Laya video unit to contribute

to 10/10/10 campaign.

Documentation & Collation on Climate Education

As part of the Youth & Climate Change work, CED and ScinDeA have undertaken documentation/collation

of Good practices on CC education, among teachers, NGOs and young people.CED has been gathering

information by visiting different NGOs, Colleges as well as websites. The compilation was completed in

end January. The documentation has been converted into electronic form and made available on INECC

website. The collection has been classified into

- Existing Education on Climate Change

- Good Practices

- Resources on Climate Justice & Sustainable Development

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- Learning to Mitigate & Adaptation

Following the intervention on climate education at the INECC strategic meeting, the collation has been

expanded to take into account the broader view of Climate Education and the section on Climate

Education mandate and perspectives have been added. As a part of CED’s programme of climate

education, CED has been developing various educational material for use with students. Thus power point

presentations and short films and documentation have been produced to educate students. Last year’s

trigger films, “I am the Drum and The City Calling has been used extensively this year with students.

Preparatory work was also done for making simple slides on basics of climate change, and done mutli

lingual versions of the same, so that they may help presenters, not familiar with the language, and

translators who find it difficult to handle technical concepts. This will be published as open source

training material in INECC website.

Educational Material or Students in Mumbai & Bangalore CED’s main work with Students and Youth in Mumbai has been to engage them in self-study on Climate

Change, and link it to their project work in colleges.CED has developed a special reference section on

Climate Change at its centres in Bangalore and Mumbai, and declared free access to these through it

“Happy Topics” programme. Further, CED has been in touch with teachers, and kept them abreast with

literature on climate change, particularly the three issues of critical concerns brought out by CED, the

Climate Education booklets, and other references to secondary literature at CED. Several students have

availed of this facility .The reference and Project work to students have been supported by offering our

support to give talks and presentations to student groups.

Overiew of Youth Outreach through various programmes:

. Programme Outreach

Yuva Drishti 25

IIT Bombay 45

Climate Champs Course 42

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Marginalised youth in Andhra Pradesh 62

Village meetings in Andhra Pradesh 411

S M Shetty School, Mumbai 160

Workshops in Guwahati & Gangtok 60

BMN College, Mumbai 135

Field exposure to Dahanu , Zai, Maharashtra

30

School/ college children in B’lore 178

Total 1148

On the youth agenda, as can be observed, we have been successful in initiating and facilitating quite number of diverse initiatives. We have been able to reach out to close to 1148 youth directly against our target of 320 youth. Our sessions with youth have helped in improving their strategic knowledge based on the subject. We have also been successful in relating to students from different streams, levels, backgrounds and ecoregions to engage in climate related deliberations. However where we lack is the close connect with media and bureaucrats. We tried to reach out to local constituencies through Yuva Drishti participants but that approach has not really been successful. We discussed this agenda during the INECC strategic meeting and have reflected on a way forward.

III. Mainstreaming climate change :

Towards integrating climate into our work with the communities, CSOs and the administration a whole

range of processes have been initiated:

Climate education in local language

CED did the research and documentation work and produced the document “ hardy options” focussing on

the arid ecosystem . The document is also available on the INECC website. It has already been translated

into kannada. It is further being translated into Telugu . (Annexure 4: Hardy options)

Pilot Workshops/Programme with CSOs in Bangalore and Mumbai .

CED has taken the responsibility of engaging with the civil society in Mumbai and Bangalore as they have

bases in both these places.

Power in the time of Climate Change: Pilot Workshop was organised in Bangalore. This consultation,

facilitated by the Bangalore Platform and CED was supported by INECC, between energy experts and

social activists to develop an understanding of the energy scenario and link them to peoples issues in this

regard. The Steering Committee of the National Network on Energy which emerged out of the

Bhubaneshwar Conclave( an energy meet organised by a group of NGOs in Bhubaneswar) were part of

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this consultation. Shankar Sharma, expert on energy spoke of the gross inefficiency and inequality in

power distribution. Consumers may not work to conserve or use energy efficiently in the name of Climate

Change. Thus economic leverage to be built into the system. Shuba Raghavan of CSTEP said it is neither

the technology nor the economics, but the institutional mechanisms that often stall large scale

dissemination. There is a need for long term sustainable working of off-grid applications.T.Pradeep,

IsquareD spoke of serious gaps in the Integrated Energy Policy, as far as rural energy was concerned.

There is no mention of improved or energy-efficient stoves and there is also no mention of chimneys and

ventilation in kitchens, given that 85 million households use biomass as their primary fuel is a potential

savings of over 500 million t/ce annually. He urged for the need for a looking at the Carbon Neutral

Village as a platform for integrated energy. In the urban context, Hariharan of Eco-BCIL showed how

energy usage can be reduced.( BCIL builds top class homes where it is almost zero energy dependence

where customers save 70% on energy bills).The issue of ‘equity’ and’ justice’ is seldom spoken of in

Energy terms when displacing large populations in the so called National interests particular in energy

development projects like big dams. Embedded costs need to be identified and taken into account. At the

Policy level, the relevance of Decentralised options need to be recognised. The need to document case

studies and stories of successful Decentralised Energy Options was emphasised.

In another initiative, CED worked with ‘Pipal Tree’ on their workshop for Journalists and Activists which

was hosted at the Fireflies Intercultural Centre on the 29th and 30th of September. Walter Mendoza made

a presentation titled “To sink or Not to Sink” which highlighted the issue of creating so called carbon sinks

through forests, and India's policy approach to the issue.Raajen Singh from CED Mumbai presented a

paper "Reddy for REDD"- highlighting how the forestry policy works on the ground when corporates take

charge of forest areas as is highlighted by the case of the Reddy Brothers mining activity in the forests of

Bellary.CED also prepared Notes for the Workshop, which included paper on REDD, as well as initial draft

chapters for the revised version of the climate education booklet on forest which incorporated the REDD

debates and a bibliography. This was also circulated in electronic form as a CD at the workshop.The study

done for the above two papers were then incorporated in the ongoing Climate Education Booklet for the

Forest Eco-region : Missing the Community for the Woods: Forests,Communities and Climate Change in

India -. The English version has been published on INECC website. The Kannada version has been

translated and is now being proofed. The Transcript has been sent to ODAF ( part of INECC)for

development of the Oriya version.

In another workshop, Fireflies organized a 2-day programme on “What religions and spiritualities can

contribute to face the challenge of climate change”. Participants were from different religious and secular

backgrounds. Walter Mendoza participated and made a presentation on the ethical and justice challenges

thrown up by Climate Change. He participated in a discussion on Climate Change at MAITREYA - a centre

for eco-justice and eco-spirituality in Bangalore on 17th January 2011. Participants were people from

different backgrounds and professions. The discussions centred on trying to identify the major pressing

issues, and finding out ways in which those present with particular reference to the hosts, could

address the issues in the context of eco-justice and eco-spirituality.

CED also organised a session of the Bangalore Platform on Solid Waste Management in Bangalore; and

subsequently to the workshop Inclusive & Greener Cities Opportunities in the Face of Climate Change

organized on January 24 And 25, 2011 by the Centre For Social Action,Christ University, Bangalore,

India.In another session of the Bangalore Platform: on Waste Management on 4th December 2010,Wilma

Rodrigues, Executive Director of Saahas, took through various issues involving waste - waste segregation

at source, and retrieval of recyclable material at the individual,household and municipal level, and the

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larger issues of sustainable cities, issues of inclusion of the informal sector, and impacts on livelihoods of

marginalised urban communities. The burgeoning volumes of waste in the city, limited options of disposal

and the fact that waste management strategies alone are unable to solve the problem, leaves us with

fewer options ie.,zero waste! Reduce, reuse, recycle – the 3Rs – the tenets of waste management. The

major emphasis on reduce – looking to minimise and eliminate waste. The waste audit conducted at

Satyam was shared which identified disposable products as the largest contributors of waste.(Saahas has

been engaged with these issues in Bangalore for nearly 2 decades.)There were 12 participants including a

few people from the neighbourhood.CED got in touch with many organizations working in Slums and

lower class neighbourhoods, many of whom are working with the informal waste-collection and recycling

sectors, and visited some of them as potential sites for the vulnerability study on urban areas. CED also

participated in the Public hearing on Climate Change and Food Security in Semi-arid

zones: organised by Accion Fraterna and Timbaktu in October 2010.

CED, KICS( Knowledge in civil society) and INECC jointly organised a consultation on “ Mumbai in the

times of Climate change” in Mumbai during the annual Kala Ghoda festival.Kala ghoda festival of the arts

is a multilayered festival held at an old precinct of Mumbai, which has many insitutions. The festival

captures the state of the Art which reflect the several institutions in the locality, The festival which

attract a large number of mumbaites, also sports serious literature, films, and debates which impact the

city. The programme provided an opportunity to listen to experts and practiceners alike on different

themes- transport , urbanisation, slums,waste mgmt, meterological data from met experts and possible

alternatives to address some of these core problems in the Mumbai context.

Vulnerability Assessments In order to strategise for adaption mechanisms in the vulnerable ecosystems, vulnerabilitry assessments were

undertaken by network partners. CED took responsibility to engage with the urban ecosystem wile environics

trust has a focus on the Himalayan ecosystem. The exhaustive forest vulnerability assessments taken up last year

has been complete and is in the process of documentation.

Urban Communities and Climate Change: Pilot study

CED has taken up this short-term study that focuses on the vulnerability of urban marginalized

communities to Climate Change. This is a small study, a pilot venture, a prelude to a larger study .The

advisory process was instituted to enable scientists, researchers, and civil society to come together to

sharpen the focus.. The expected outcome of this is a report on the vulnerability assessment in an urban

ecosystem. The study has attempted to

- understand what constitutes urban vulnerability in the context of climate change

- identify the links between general environmental degradation and urban vulnerability

- understand people's responses and capabilities.

The initial meeting with the advisory group on December 22, 2010 was to ground the objectives of the

study and validate the process. Prof. T.G.Sitharam(Chairman, CiSTUP, IISc),Dr.H.S.Sudhira(ex-IISc,

Researcher, Gubbi Labs), Rohan D'Souza(Ph.D fellow, NIAS),Dr.Bidisha Nandy(Post-Doc fellow, IISc),

Dr.Harini Nagendra(Adjunct Fellow, ATREE & Asia Research Co-ordinator, Indiana University) are among

the advisors. Wilma Rodrigues (SAAHAS), Vinay aindur(Independent Researcher), Arul Selva(Slum

Jagatthu), Prema Manthesh(Ragpickers Education & Development Scheme-REDS) are part of this

study.The questionnaires were prepared with inputs and guidance from Dr. Sudhira. This questionnaire is

designed to elicit information on the socio-economic and demographic characteristics, access to

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essential civic amenities, climatic changes and to some current issues, experiences and coping

strategies.CED put in place a researcher, Hita Unnikrishnan. Hita has a Masters in Life Science. She is a

member of the core team of Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN), Bangalore Chapter working on issues

of climate changes.The study was deemed to be at three levels – a family level, a neighbourhood level and

with certain specific occupational groups who directly or indirectly impact the global climate change

phenomenon. The questionnaires were based on the outcomes that were previously enumerated through

a brainstorming with the team and revised a number of times. The research design,enumeration of the

outcomes was put into place for the vulnerability study.CED contacted Mr. Issac of APSA who has been

instrumental in the identification of the slums for the vulnerability study. The following slums were

visited in order to narrow down the locations for the pilot study – Valluvarpuram, Jaali Mohalla ,

Ambedkar Nagar, VST colony and Khader Sharief garden(KS Garden) as examples of old slums in the city;

LR Nagar, Hosabalu nagar, Economically Weaker Section Quarters(EWS Quarters) as examples of the

relocated slums; and Parappana Agrahara and Ashwathnagar as examples of the peripheral

villages/slums.A comparison table of these locations has been made based on which the following

locations for the study was identified • Old slum – Khader Sharief Garden • Rehabilitation slum- EWS Quarters • Peripheral Village – Parappana Agrahara A pilot was conducted in the village Parappana Agrahara involving 5 individuals and a member of the

weaver's colony there for the family level questionnaire. The inputs and required modifications were

then added to the questionnaire.

The study is drawn from the primary data that was collected at the individual, household level and

neighbourhood level, along with a survey of secondary sources. Secondary data is sourced from the

following sources – Slum Clearance Board, Slum Jagatthu, APSA, Janasahayog, India Water Portal, IISc,

CIVIC, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Environment Support Group(ESG) and CED Records and

is being collated. The information obtained so far as well as the methodologies followed are being

documented such that they may help in providing relevant content for the final report.

A stakeholder meeting was held in the last week of May to share and re-validate the findings from the

vulnerability study.

The final report encompassing the findings from the vulnerability study and incorporating feedback from

the stakeholders is being made.

Vulnerability Assessment Study of the Forest ecosystem and the Himalayan ecosystem is almost complete and

the report is under preparation. The insights from these reports will be followed up by facilitating adaptive measures

in the respective regions.

Creation of Energy Hubs: The process of creation of the energy hubs continues in Visakhapatnam, East Godavari

districts whereas the hub creation in Malkangiri district has been initiated for larger outreach.

List of solar lanterns and fuel wood efficiency stoves:

S.No. Name of the village Solar

lanterns

received

No of HH

Wood

stoves

constructed

No of HH

1 Tummichelu 33 10

2 Chelakaveedhilanka 5 21

3 Chinnapalusurimetta 8 30

4 Karnuthula/Tekulaveedhi 8 8

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5 Pathakota 19 13

6 Pulimetla 30 30

7 Kinnerla 25 25

8 D.Koppulakota 10 25

9 Buradhakota 24 24

10 Ganganuru 20 20

11 Janmaguda/Gudlawada 35 35

12 Pulusumamidilanka 0 19

13 Senaganuru 0 40

217 300

The list from Paderu and Malkangiri is under compilation and will be made available in the next progress report.

Pilot Community based adaptive initiatives were facilitated by the NRM and DEO team to identify adaptive

responses in the tribal regions of East Godavari and Visakhapatnam districts respectively. Based on field assessments

and peoples’ perception, about 7 interventions have been identified. The following sustainable agriculture activities

have been undertaken towards exploring adaptive characteristics of these initiatives.

1. Training on low carbon farming techniques to the farmers:

The trainings programmes were organized in 3 phases at pathakota cluster for 3 batches for 19 villages,

one batch for 6 villages, one batch for 7 villages and another batch for 6 villages (Orissa immigrants); the

main focus on low water intensive crops, low carbon farming techniques, Rain water harvesting and soil

moisture conservation measures, Mixed crops, agro forestry, horticulture and vegetables cultivation and

different crops package of practices (POP’s) relevant to Pathakota area

The training periods were- 1st batch- 10th to 11th march 2011, the attendance was 43(32 male: 11 female)

from 6 villages; the 2nd batch from the 12th to 13th march 2011, the attendance was 57(30 male,

27female); from 7 villages; and 3rd batch for Orissa immigrants (35 male) from the 14th to 15th April 2011

from 6 villages; the total participants in 3 trainings were 135 (total male: 97, total female: 38).

2.Promotion of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) as demonstration:

Identified and selected progressive farmers from 16 villages of pathakota panchayat for demonstration of

SRI in kharif season (2011 June middle on wards) and purchased improved variety of seeds from

Regional agriculture research station Chinthapalli. Ordered for Markers and weeders through AP state

Agriculture Department; the seed material was distributed to 82 farmers from 16 villages to Practice in

75 acres; the details given below table:

S.No Name of the Village Total Number of farmers

Rice seed varieties and number of farmers MTU 1001 quantity in KGs

No of Farmers

MTU 1010 quantity in KGs

No of farmers

Sugandhi sambha quantity in KGs

No of farmers

1 Tangedukota 3 4 2 0 0 2 1 2 R.Koppulakota 5 0 0 0 0 5 5 3 Kothapakalu 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 4 Rachametta 3 2 1 0 0 4 2 5 O Koppulakota 6 5 5 0 0 1 1 6 Pulimetla 8 2 1 10 5 3 2 7 D.Koppulakota 2 0 0 4 2 0 0 8 Pathakota 16 10 5 12 6 7 5

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9 Buradhakota 2 4 2 0 0 0 0 10 Kinnerla 4 8 4 0 0 0 0 11 Pulusumamidi 6 8 4 4 2 0 0 12 Karnikota 2 0 0 4 2 0 0 13 Chelakaveedhilanka 8 8 4 8 4 0 0 14 Thummichelu 6 6 3 6 3 0 0 15 Palusurimetta 4 4 2 4 2 0 0 16 Senaganuru 6 6 3 6 3 0 0 Total 82 70 39 58 29 22 16

In addition to SRI we have supplied seeds to farmers to cultivate in Normal paddy cultivation where SRI

was not feasible (22 farmers 830 kgs from 6 villages)

S.No Name of the Village Total Number of farmers

Seed variety and number of farmers MTU 1001 quantity in KGs

No of Farmers

MTU 1010 quantity in KGs

No of farmers

1 Karnikota 1 0 0 40 1 2 Rachametta 2 50 2 0 0 3 Pulimetla 6 160 4 80 2 4 Pathakota 13 220 6 280 7 5 Pulusumamidilanka 0 0 0 0 0 6 Kinnerla 0 0 0 0 0 Total 22 430 12 400 10

3. Homesteads development at households level:

Identified and selected 136 households as well sites for homesteads demonstration and purchased seed

materials of Ginger 650 kgs and Turmeric 1300 kgs from Paderu and Araku Tribal area farmers and

maize brought from Korukonda area from farmers 150 kgs distributed to the 136 households Ginger 505

kgs ,turmeric 1250 kgs and maize 135 kgs ; ( figures in the bracket indicates number of farmers).

S.No Name of the Village Total No of Farmers

Ginger in kgs (No.of farmers)

Turmeric (No.of farmers)

Maize in kgs (No.of farmers)

1 Chelakaveedhi lanka 9 25(5) 90 (9) 9 2 Senaganuru 11 0 110 (11) 11 3 Pulusumamidilanka 10 25(5) 100 (10) 10 4 Pulimetla 11 40(8) 110(11) 11 5 Kinnerla 6 25 (5) 60 (6) 6 6 Karnikota 4 20 40 4

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7 Gandhamuru 4 20 40 4 8 Kothapakalu 5 25 (5) 50 (5) 5 9 Tangedukota 4 10 (2) 40 (4) 4 10 R.Koppulakota 9 15(3) 90(9) 8 11 Rachametta 5 15(3) 50(5) 5 12 Buradakota 7 25(5) 70(7) 7 13 Pathakota 18 90(15) 150(15) 18 14 Gudlawada 2 0 20(2) 2 15 Thummichelu 13 65(13) 80(8) 13 16 Karnuthula 5 25(5) 50(5) 5 17 Palusurimetta 5 25(5) 50(5) 5 18 D.Koppulakota,

O.Koppulakota 6 30(6) 0 6

19 Ganganuru 5 25(5) 50(5) 5 Total 136 505 1250 135

Sustainable agriculture training for women farmers

4. Promotion of Mixed Crops:

Selected households to demonstrate combination of mixed crops in 7 villages of where “Podu” cultivation

is high and therefore the soil is degraded. We have distributed the improved varieties of seeds in about

50 households in this cluster, and wheat has been introduced as a nontraditional crop under rain fed

conditions.The seed distribution is shown in the statement below.

S.No. Name of the Village

Foxtail millet in kgs

Niger in Kgs

Ragi (Finger millet) in kgs

Wheat in kgs

Muster in kgs

1 Tangedukota 3 8 7 0 0 2 R.Koppulakota 3 3 7 0 0 3 Rachametta 3 6 5 0 4 4 O.Koppulakota 3 10 5 0 4 5 Pulimetla 3 5 5 5 4 6 D.Koppulakota 2 2 5 0 4 7 Pathakota 3 16 16 15 4 Total 20 50 50 20 20

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5.Promotion of horticulture:

Identified 200 households for promotion of horticulture and sites has been prepared for plantation .The

plants will be supplied in the month of July; the varieties of plants mango, citrus, Sapota, guava and

cashew. The coverage through plantations will be aimed for 50 acres

6. Kitchen Gardens 608 households

Created awareness among tribal families to practice kitchen gardening in their backyards and farms to

meet their regular requirement of vegetable, and distributed vegetable seeds mini kits to the 300

households in the month May -2011. The remaining 308 families will be taking up this kitchen gardening

in the month of July-2011.

Field exposure and training on SRI

Pilot Action research project on waste management

The pilot study was taken up by ICOR, Mumbai where SWM is a major issue. The objective was to

understand the municipal process, process of waste generation, handling and management under the

Brihanmumbai municipal corporation. It has also looked at localised initiatives taken up by citizens to

handle their own waste; the role of ragpickers etc. Overall the study has looked at fundamental problems

associated with waste mgmt and has suggested recommendations for better waste handling and

disposal.(Annexure 5-Report on Solid waste mgmt study).

Documentation of 8 demonstrative mitigation projects

The documentation of 8 mitigation sites was undertaken in collaboration with TISS. The video of the 8

typical projects has been developed which captures unique grassroots models of low carbon path.The

video film is expected to serve as an advocacy tool apart from sharing and educating NGOs and CBOs..

We plan to develop a publishable document for the national meeting before CoP and for the CoP .The

following case studies have been documented ( Annexure 6-First draft of the document attached)

Case Studies on Mitigation:

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1. Cluster Approach

2. Micro-hydro

3. Efficient Cook-stoves

4. Bio-gas

5. Afforestation/Reforestation

6. Rag-pickers

7. Low Carbon Farming

8. Solar lanterns entrepreneurship model

TISS Video team at Village Ulti in Lohardagga District, Jharkhand

Climate Change Learning Initiative, Mobilizing Action for Transforming Environments

in Asia Pacific(CLIMATE Asia Pacific)-. A group comprising of civil society representatives, peoples’

organisation, academic institutions in South East Asia has come together which aims to build

understanding on climate change in order to respond to the problem in terms of taking actions on

mitigation, adaptation and disaster preparedness. INECC has actively participated in undertaking scoping

survey on the status of climate education by interviewing academicians , government bodies, NGOs and

Environmental activists . It has come up with insights on the status of climate education in India and has

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suggested recommendations on ways to integrate ‘climate change education’ in the current educational

system.

Our exploratory work on Clean Development Mechanism finally culminated into Laya the being registered

for a ‘Community focussed micro scale scheme. This will the first project of its nature in India.The process was

guided by CDM specialist from the fair climate network ( FCN).

We have been successful in fulfilling largely all those initiatives that had been proposed as part of the second

year of engagement. We have developed materials on climate change in Marathi, Kannada, Tamil and

Telugu. These materials will be translated into English and Hindi languages. The forest, coastal, urban and

Himalayan vulnerability studies have been complete and is being documented. The vulnerability assessment

for the arid region will take place after September. The studies of 8 mitigation sites is complete and we shall l

be ready with a publishable document by Nov this year. We continue to work towards hub creations by

facilitating Solar lanterns and smokeless in all the three pockets of East Godavari, Visakhapatnam and

Malkangiri. The waste management study in complete and a sharing workshop is being planned around it.

Further it will be published as a document by the end of this year for dissemination.

IV. Linking and Learning

Networking with organisations and individuals working on climate change

Linking with CSOs has been part of direct intervention process through programmes organised by Laya -INECC as

well as indirectly on various platforms regionally, nationally and internationally. Initiatives were taken to register

INECC (the organisation) with CANSA, which is yet to take a final decision.

Maintaining website on Climate change CED has taken up the responsibility for maintaining INECC website .The website was critically reviewed and suggestions are constantly being made to improve it. CED has also put up all the Climate Education material that it has developed, adapted during the course of the project. The general climate change material on the eco-regions, sectors, climate equity, the science, the politics have been put in the secondary documentation. INECC Website (http://inecc.net) We have consolidated monthwise statistics from April 2010 to March 2011 based on the following indicators (Unique Visitors = A unique visitor is a host that has made at least 1 hit on 1 page of your web

site during the current period shown by the report.

if this host make several visits during this period, it is counted only once.

Visitor = Number of visits made by all visitors.

Pages = Total number of pages downloaded ie, html,php etc..(Not Images,style sheets).

Hits: =Any files requested from the server (including files that are "Pages" and images )

Month Unique

Visitors

No. of

Visits

Pages Hits

Apr-10 191 356 3143 16811

May-10 280 615 3142 14618

Jun-10 278 543 3469 15669

Jul-10 207 334 4176 17275

Aug-10 238 364 1748 19327

Sep-10 235 387 1897 9255

Oct-10 263 374 2341 17676

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Nov-10 299 416 1287 10964

Dec-10 402 577 4804 26664

Jan-11 388 537 6396 46502

Feb-11 336 495 3014 19394

Mar-11 344 498 4951 14893

Total: 5496 40368 229048

INECC strategic meeting-

INECC meeting was organised in Feb 2011 where network members shared the work undertaken, progress made in

the previous year, and reflected on strategies to be undertaken for the future course of action. The strategic meeting

also provided an opportunity to understand the debate regarding “ carbon budget and equitable distribution of carbon

space from expert from Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Further, initial reflections were made on the engagement

plans from civil society for CoP 17 . However, there was consensus on meeting again to flesh out agenda to be

pursued at the domestic, national and international level. (Annexure 7: minutes of the INECC strategic meeting)

Documents

Second year PROGRESS Report - CED · 3 | P a g e LAYA-INECC PROGRESS REPORT( June 2010- May 2011) 3. Climate change and NAPCC 4. Climate change and international policy 5. Energy