Module 4: Expanding Participation through Social Learning Networking, Leadership and Advocacy
Learning Outcomes
Key ideas to be covered in the module
- To understand how to expand participation for CCA in TFCA contexts through social learning, networking, leadership and advocacy approaches
- To integrate social learning, networking, and advocacy strategies into CCA actions and TFCA management plans.
Key ideas to be covered in the module
- Anticipatory governance
- Mediation of institutional networks
- Communities of practice
- Leadership theories and approaches
- Social learning and adaptation
- Advocacy Strategies
Key Readings1. Communities of practice: A brief introduction
2. Ten common elements of successful advocacy campaigns 3. Adaptive governance of socio-ecological systems (2005) 4. Catalysing adaptive capacity for development and climate change: An exploration of social learning and social differentiation in the CGIAR (2013) 5. Visualization of institutional networks and the flows of information used for making adaptation decisions in a range of policy contexts (2012) Additional Readings1. Anticipatory governance (2010)
2. Communities of practice: A new tool for government managers (2003) 3. Social learning for adaptation: A descriptive handbook for practitioners and action researchers (2014) On-course Task Documents
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Online resources to support communication and networking about climate changeThe GeoWiki Project
"The Geo-Wiki Project is a global network of volunteers who wish to help improve the quality of global land cover maps. Since large differences occur between existing global land cover maps, current ecosystem and land-use science lacks crucial accurate data (e.g. to determine the potential of additional agricultural land available to grow crops in Africa). Volunteers are asked to review hotspot maps of global land cover disagreement and determine, based on what they actually see in Google Earth and their local knowledge, if the land cover maps are correct or incorrect. Their input is recorded in a database, along with uploaded photos, to be used in the future for the creation of a new and improved global land cover map". http://www.geo-wiki.org Climate Interactive
" Climate Interactive creates interactive, scientifically rigorous tools that help people see connections, play out scenarios, and see what works to address the biggest challenges we face. Based on a long tradition of system dynamics modeling out of MIT that explores the interplay between social and planetary systems, our simulations cover a range of topics, from climate change and clean energy to disaster risk reduction and resilience. http://www.climateinteractive.org Climate CoLab"The goal of the Climate CoLab is to harness the collective intelligence of thousands of people from all around the world to address global climate change. Inspired by systems like Wikipedia and Linux, the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence has developed this crowdsourcing platform where citizens work with experts and each other to create, analyze, and select detailed proposals for what to do about climate change".
http://climatecolab.org Prevention Web - Climate change communities "PreventionWeb.net is a participatory web platform for the disaster risk reduction community. Our primary purpose is to facilitate an understanding of the subject of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and the work of professionals in this area by providing current news and views on the topic, and tools for exchange and collaboration." http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/networks/list.php?scat_id=33 |
Communicating About Climate Change
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