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In Southern Africa, local climates are heating up. A great deal of work is being done on developing ‘simple resources’ and ‘tool boxes’ for climate change capacity and action. However, climate concepts can be deeply alienating and overwhelming, both for local government officials who are tasked with developing climate preparedness and for the diverse stakeholder groups from vastly divergent socio-economic and educational backgrounds. These include civil society organisations, small-scale farmers, and natural resource managers. Finding an appropriately robust approach that was sufficiently flexible to meet these challenges was a priority for the RESILIM-Olifants Programme. This webinar showcases the systemic, social learning approach – known as the Dialogues for Climate Change Literacy and Adaptation (DICLAD) – which was developed to “demystify” climate change and make adaptation “everyone’s business”. It is designed to be used at a ‘local’ scale to map potential climate change impacts and develop adaptation plans. At the core is the integration of technical (localized, down-scaled data) and narrative information in a conversational process that expands peoples’ understanding of climate change from an ‘environmental’ issue to a ‘well-being’ issue and that maps potential adaptation pathways and plans at multiple scales. We reflect on potential uses and welcome discussion on when and where DICLAD may be used.

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