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Driving Climate Action through Communication for Development

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Driving Climate Action through Communication for Development As Project Lead at the Centre for Development Communication, since 2022, my team and I have led a climate change communication initiative where we deployed the Communication for Development (C4D) approach — a participatory strategy that promotes community-led dialogue, learning, and action on development issues. This approach […]

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We’ve Been Making Impact. Now, We Need Support to Sustain It

Our Impact is Growing – Now We Need Support to Sustain It

Leave a Comment / Impact & Succss Stories / Audu Liberty Oseni

For the past three years, the Centre for Development Communication (CDC), through the Indigenous Climate Action Network (ICAN), has been working with rural farming communities, Kawu, Igu, Zuma, Dota, Kaida, and Dobi in FCT-Abuja. Using participatory and indigenous communication approaches, we’ve supported farmers in understanding climate change and taking meaningful adaptation and mitigation actions. Here’s

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Indigenous Communication Central for Climate Change Adaptation among Rural Farmers

Leave a Comment / Climate Change and Environment / Audu Liberty Oseni

Interventions by government and development partners targeting rural farmers for climate change adaptation measures must deploy “Indigenous communication approaches” such as community gathering for information sharing, storytelling, elder teaching, and dance etc. Long practices have seen development partners engage communication consultants who consider communication as a one-sided approach where information is disseminated through radio jingles,

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Climate Change Adaptation: An Examination of the Effectiveness of Indigenous Knowledge Systems among Rural Farmers in Akpanya Community, Kogi State, Nigeria

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Adamawa State University Journal of Scientific Research (ADSUJSR) Volume 12 Issue 2, 2024 Author: Audu Liberty Oseni Abstract Our disregard for the Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) contributes largely to the failure of state and non-state actors’ intervention targeting climate change adaptation among rural farmers. In a study population of an estimated 19,800 predominantly rural farmers

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Climate Change is fake, don’t tell us about it

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Although there has been a huge conversation and investments made in climate change at the global, national, and local levels, rural women in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) the Nigerian capital, do not believe climate change is real and consider it as fake. For many of them, climate change discussion is nothing but connivance with the

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International Equinox Earth Day Celebration 2024: Earth belongs to everyone

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Annually, there is a global international Equinox Earth Day Celebration to renew our collective commitment to honour the Earth and promote peace for all to live and enjoy the Earth that belongs to us all. As we celebrate the Equinox Earth Day on this 19th day of March 2024, we must hold on to our

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Climate Change Education Must Adopt Dialogue & Negotiation

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Our approach to communicating Climate Change has to adopt dialogue and negotiation, and not only focus on campaign and advocacy. This will facilitate trust-building, empowerment, efficiency, accountability, and sustainability among community members. It will further allow for effective participation that will create room for both development agents and communities to learn, re-learn, and have an

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How Climate Change Impacts Students in Sokoto

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Students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, North-west Nigeria in different accounts, narrated how hot weather conditions triggered by climate change are impacting them. Some of the students link their poor academic performance to hot weather, which they say makes it difficult for them to attend classes and learn in a conducive environment. Jibrin Mutar, a

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Poor Participation, Reason Climate Change Interventions Fail

Poor Participatory Communication, Reason Climate Change Interventions Fail

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Over the years, practitioners who design Climate Change interventions, have continued to adopt approaches that allow community and strategic stakeholders participation to be only an avenue to extract information, rather than allowing for effective participation. They often follow Rapid Rural Appraisal and Participatory Rural Appraisal approaches which have since been replaced by Participatory Learning and

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Logging activities leading to biodiversity loss in Kogi community

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Logging activities are leading to a huge loss of forest and biodiversity at Enugu Ogboyaga Community in Igalamela Local Government Area of Kogi. Animals who depend on the forests for survival are disappearing while the forest faces extinction. The forest that stretches about 10 kilometres is fast disappearing. A visit to the forest which is

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