MainDB: Building Climate Resilience and Adaptation in the Kainai First Nation
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Building Climate Resilience and Adaptation in the Kainai First Nation
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Non-governmental organization (NGO)
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North America
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By bringing together indigenous values and local knowledge, and climate change science, together we built trust and worked as partners to create community-relevant action plans and engagement activities.
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Date of submission:
11/04/2016
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Institutional arrangements
Adaptation sector/theme:
Food security; Water resources; Community-based adaptation; Gender; Indigenous and traditional knowledge
Climate hazard:
Drought; Glacial retreat; Increasing temperatures; Wildfire
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Canada
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Local, indigenous and traditional knowledge
Description:
Phase I
of the project was undertaken between 2016-2018 and it focused on Capacity Building through information gathering and education.
The objectives of this phase included:
Broadly increasing tribal climate change knowledge and skills
Determining the immediate, medium, and long-term climate risks to the Tribe
Developing an initial Climate Adaptation Plan- Local Early Action Plan (LEAP) that can be further built upon
Participatory approach
: Our method to make use of local, indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices involved co-authoring each part of the initiative.
Through in-person meetings and dialogue, we discussed the immediate and long-term concerns of the Tribe regarding climate change, and also got a baseline for the educational requirements and for the specific requirements by the community members in the group required. Furthermore, there was a commitment to confidentiality in collecting critical, but sacred and sensitive information such as traditional plant use, which was thought to influence land use decisions.
The Tribe also shared their preferred ways of meeting – including opening and closing prayers and the use of stories to share knowledge. We worked with the Council to ensure that the female members of the Tribe have a voice in the process and in the decision-making.
This resulted in one of the women taking the lead on the project. This female lead was mentored and further engaged by introducing her to the global climate change arena at the next UNFCCC session as a co-presenter.
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Local
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The Resilience Institute
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Academics and scientists; Communities; Practitioners
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Our participatory approach has allowed us to officially establish the project, to co-sign funding proposals to our provincial government, and to show leadership in a new partnership between a Canadian First Nation and an outside Not for Profit organization. It has also enabled us to develop Tribal specific climate education tools relevant to building knowledge capacity for deeper work to come in climate risk assessment and adaptation planning.
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Find more information about the contributor on this website:
https://resilienceinstitute.ca/
Note: Contributing partner was formerly known as The Rockies Institute
Implementing partners:
The Kainai First Nation
– co-authoring the community approach and helping with sourcing funding.
A staff from All One Sky Foundation supported the co-development of a community approach to climate risk assessment.
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laura@resilienceinstitute.ca
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