Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices in Climate Change Projects in Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods

We are writing to ask for your participation in a survey that aims to provide a better understanding on the ways in which development projects can assist rural households in adapting to climate change. The survey is part of a project, Enhancing Women's Assets to Manage Risk under Climate Change: Potential for Group Based Approaches, that is conducted jointly by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in partnership with the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), Addis Ababa University (AAU), Data Analysis and Technical Assistance (DATA) in Bangladesh, Institute of Rural Economics in Mali (IER), Center for Development Research (ZEF), and University of Hohenheim, the latter both in Germany. This survey focuses on the current state of capacity, knowledge, attitudes and practice with respect to group-based and other approaches that are used by development organizations to support climate change adaptation and climate risk management in the rural sector. The survey will be used to develop a capacity strengthening strategy for the project, which also comprises qualitative and quantitative research in selected countries (http://womenandclimate.ifpri.info/).

We would like to invite you as well as other members of your organization to respond to this survey. We would also appreciate if you could forward the survey to other organizations that are involved in climate change adaptation and risk mitigation activities for agriculture and rural livelihoods in these four countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mali). We are interested in learning about your experiences and your views toward planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating your projects and programs on climate change. Your responses will be treated confidentially. We will be happy to share the survey results and other outputs of the project with you.

The survey will take about 30 minutes, and is divided into 6 parts. Even if you cannot answer all questions in the survey, we encourage you to fill in as much of the survey as you possibly can.

As a token of our appreciation for filling out this survey, we are offering to send a data stick or CD of 30 relevant publications on climate change and gender by IFPRI. If you are interested in this, please fill out your mailing address on the last page of the survey or send an email to Julia Behrman (j.behrman@cgiar.org).

Thank you for your willingness to participate.