Using case studies from three villages, this report looks at how lessons from PRIME can be used to integrate climate resilience into development work.
Lessons learned for Climate Resilience and Development (CRD) include:
- CRD calls for long-term, systemic approaches aimed at behavior change
- Climate programming benefits from adaptive multi-agency projects
- Climate integrated projects require an especially high level of planning
- Information about climate must be translated, time appropriate, accessible, and tailored to end users
- Women are often early adopters of CCA strategies and thus key stakeholders
- A culture of appropriate savings supports climate resilience
- Organisations need a cohesive, in-depth understanding of what CRD means
- Programmes should be designed to incorporate climate resilience across outcomes
About PRIME
Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME) was a USAID-led Feed the Future programme in Ethiopia from 2012 - 2019. It included a markets based and adaptive management approach to help pastoralists strengthen systems to simultaneously address economic needs and climate adaptation to increase resilience capacities.