Informed Climate Action ( Issues are under construction……… )
Climate change–induced weather and meteorological anomalies are creating severe disruption across productive livelihood sectors, including crop agriculture, livestock rearing, aquaculture, inland and marine fisheries, and agroforestry. Increasingly erratic weather patterns and the rapid onset of hazardous events such as damaging gusty winds, sudden thunderstorms, torrential rainfall, and hailstorms are causing significant losses to livelihood assets, including standing crops, seedlings, saplings, poorly built houses, and other vulnerable physical infrastructure and basic services.
At the same time, the favorable climate windows that occur intermittently within the season are still not being adequately predicted or projected by the local meteorological service.
In response, MHEWC aims to undertake research and development on last-mile adaptation actions. This includes action research to develop a year-round meteorological and weather-based climate action calendar to guide adaptation interventions in key sectors. Priority areas may include co-digestion biogas digesters for household cooking and lighting, farmyard manure production, vermicomposting, pest management, nature-based solutions, locally led adaptation (LLA) options, biodiversity conservation measures, agroforestry, coastal afforestation, and plantation along embankments.
MHEWC supports informed climate action through the following areas:
a) Diagnosis of local climate systems and development of community-based adaptation interventions:
MHEWC supports the diagnosis of local climate regimes, the identification of adaptation indicators, and the planning of community-based adaptation schemes and projects. It also assists last-mile local actors and stakeholders in effectively implementing these initiatives.
b) Climate Early Warning & Good Climate/Weather Awareness System development to inform local elements, landscape, biodiversity, agroecology, agroclimatic, specific adaptation planning, scheme design, and implementation:
MHEWC supports the design and implementation of locally relevant adaptation actions and schemes grounded in local biodiversity, ecology, surface hydrology, agroecology, soil health, and the hydrological cycle. We specialize in community-level climate risk assessment, developing a good climate awareness system complementing local season ahead favorable for crop diversity/variety, impending ecologically friendly climate and weather pattern for the season, and development of climate-sensitive adaptive agriculture, aquaculture, livestock farming, integrated farm management techniques, and community-based adaptation scheme/project planning, design, and implementation.
c) Support local governments, last-mile actors, and stakeholders in climate resilience planning, budgeting, and scheme development:
MHEWC assists last-mile local governments in conducting sector-level climate risk assessments, planning resilient recovery and development, and establishing local climate change adaptation, mitigation, resilience planning, and budgeting systems.
d) Climate-Resilient Model Household and Community Development :
MHEWC supports last-mile local actors, communities, and households in designing and developing inclusive, natural resource-based model households. These resilience models are intended to help households absorb and withstand climate shocks. The design approach emphasizes the use of locally available renewable resources and appropriate renewable energy technologies, including solar PV, biogas digesters, water harvesting systems for irrigation and drinking water, small-scale water resource management, micro-hydro schemes, and wind power systems.
MHEWC empowers grassroots actors and rural households to design and implement inclusive, climate-adaptive model homes that can withstand environmental shocks. These resilient households utilize locally available renewable resources and green technologies, including solar power, biogas, improved cookstoves, rainwater harvesting, wind, and micro-hydro systems, to meet daily cooking and lighting needs. Ultimately, this sustainable approach comprehensively strengthens a community’s water, sanitation (WASH), food, livelihood, and green energy security.
More R&D coming in on the above issues