Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) implies a multi-stakeholders action, innovation and a process of social learning for adaptive livelihoods. Within this framework, Communication plays a key role to facilitate knowledge sharing, participation and to enhance rural institutions capacities to assist small farmers to face climate change challenges. The three case studies underline the importance of ComDev for CBA and in particular for natural resource management (NRM), disaster risk management (DRM), and livelihood adaptation. • Democratic republic of Congo: NRM is an important component for CCA and the CSDI is supporting the Rehabilitation Programme of the National Agricultural and Forestry Research System of the Democratic Republic of Congo through a communication Action Plan where the use of rural radios, participations of civil society and rehabilitation of extension systems play an important role.

1. Communication for technology
adaptation in Democratic Republic of
Congo
Esperance Bayedila
Communication for Sustainable Development Initiative – CSDI
FAO

2. Climate Change in DR Congo
Impacts
• Change of seasonal
planning (such as less
rain or flood)
• Reduction of the
productivity (such as
manioc that is the
principal food)
• Increase of the price
• Increase of poverty
Farmers need to adapt
and to have more
information

3. Climate Change in DR Congo
how to adapt
• Importance of
technology
innovations
identified by
research
• Dissemination of
technologies trough
ComDev’s tools
• Translate scientific
language to local
languages

4. Communication Action Plan in DRC
CSDI-Objectives
• Support to the National
Agricultural and Forestry
Research System
• Improving technology
adaptation through
ComDev
• Support to community
rural radios
• Scale up pilot activities at
the national level

5. Rural Radio for Climate Change
Adaptation
Rural Radio is the most
pervasive, accessible &
flexible medium
• Rapid dissemination of
critical information to
remote audiences and early
warning on issues such as
weather, markets, crops
and livestock production,
natural resources
• Local generation of
contents including
traditional knowledge
• Improved coordination
and awareness
• Facilitate participatory
approaches

6. Communication Action Plan in DRC
activities implemented
• Multi-stakeholder
consultations on
knowledge and
communication needs and
priority topics (workshop
in Bas Congo)
• Assessment of
Knowledge, Attitudes and
Practices (survey in Bas
Congo)
• Participatory strategy
design and Action Plan
• Launching of the Action
Plan

7. Communication Action Plan in DRC
On going activities
• Select the immediately
applicable results of the
research for manioc and
agro-forestry
• Translate the results from
scientific language to local
language
• Dissemination of
technologies with farmers
field school in the field
• Formation of local rural
radios about the technologies
to disseminate and create a
partnership with them

8. Lesson learned
Farmers feel and live the impacts of
climate change but …
They need to have more
information about how to adapt and
this can be achieved through
appropriated communication

9. Thank you

10. Thank you