Empowering climate change adaptation at the grassroots level: A pilot of the Citizens Climate Network in rural Cambodia. Learning Brief.

Empowering climate change adaptation at the grassroots level: A pilot of the Citizens Climate Network in rural Cambodia. Learning Brief.

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This learning brief summarises the CCN pilots’ activities and results in two provinces in rural Cambodia. The findings strongly point to the effectiveness of enabling citizens at the village level to take up adaptation actions to counter increasing climate change risks and impacts. The study offers the CCN as a practical, cost-effective, and sustainable mechanism to effect Cambodia’s National Adaptation Program of Actions to Climate Change (NAPA) 2006, in ways that address their adaptation needs and build resilient communities.

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A glance of the CCN activities

This video is a summary of the practical activities that CCN members did over 6 months of the pilot. Each month, members learnt a topic and practiced an adaptation activity that they could do in their own home and village.

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Living with Flood

Living with Flood is a collection of stories told by villagers and village chiefs in the rural villages of Cambodia about their experiences of living with flood. It was filmed in October 2021 in Prey Veng province, shortly after the peak period of flooding.

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Precarious living: A conversation with Mr Phuong Phoeun

Precarious Living is a photo story based on a conversation with Mr Phoung Phouen and his wife. The conversation took place in March 2022 as part of this research project on climate change experience in rural Cambodia.