One Day community session Report

On

“Climate Change”

Five sessions are delivered, location of sessions are mention below (Two male and Two female session

delivered in each location and one male session delivered in 3rd location)

Training Venue: 1st Basti Wago war Union Council Noorpur Machiwala Tehsil and District Rajanpur

2nd Basti Taraywala Union Council Sakhaniwala Tehsil and District Rajanpur

3rd Basti Shekani Union Council Sakhaniwala Tehsil and District Rajanpur

Agenda:

Sr. No Topic / contents Time Responsibility

1 Welcome Notes 09:00am to 09:15am

Mr. Imran Raza

2 Recitation of Holy Quran 09:15am to 09:20am

Participant

3 Introduction of Sangtani Org and Led Pakistan 09:20am to 09:30am

Ms. Shahzia Faiz

4 Objectives of Sessions 09:30am to 09:45am

Mr. Imran Raza

5 What is climate change 09:45am to 10:00am

Mr. Imran Raza

6 Climate of Rajanpur 10:00am to 10:15am

Mr. Imran Raza

7 Climate Change Causes 10:00am to 10:30am

Mr. Imran Raza

8 Impact of Climate Change 10:30am to 11:15am

Mr. Imran Raza

8.1 Impact of Climate Change on Human Life 10:30am to 10:45am

Mr. Imran Raza

8.2 IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN WINTER ON SERVE ILL PERSON

10:45am to 10:55am

Mr. Imran Raza

8.3 IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SERVE ILL CHILDREN

10:55am to 11:10am

Mr. Imran Raza

8.4 IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON WOMEN WORKING IN AGRICULTURE

11:10am to 11:30am

Mr. Imran Raza

9 What we can do about this burning issue 11:30am to 12:00am

Mr. Imran Raza

10 Community discussion on Climate Change (Causes, Impact etc)

12:00am to 12:20am

Mr. Imran Raza

11 Lunch Break 12:20am to 12:45am

Facilitator

Training facilitation support:

Admin and Finance Officer provide all (Admin and Finance) related support for the conduction of

community sessions. This support was the glowing support provided by Admin and finance department.

PARTICIPANTS:

All the participants were from gross root community CBO’s. 74 male and 55 female participants have

participated in these 5 sessions on climate change. List of participants is attached

Welcome & Inaugural Address

Trainer Mr. Imran Raza welcomed to trainees on behalf of Sangtani Women Rural Development

Organization and its Donor Lead Pakistan. He said that this is a great opportunity for us and especially

for you to work under Climate change project, a unique approach which gives strength and self-respect

to common people to eliminate solid wastes, eliminate dirty water ponds etc

Session Objectives:

The main purpose of community sessions was to build the knowledge and capacity of local

community on Climate change, its causes and its effects

Make to local community capable to reduce this burning issue

Realize to local community and activist that they give their inputs on this process

sensitization to local community on climate change its causes and effects

Methodology:

Lecture based methodology and participant participation

Time period of Question and answer

Experience sharing.

Sessions Norma’s:

Mobile should be silent

Cross talking will be not allowed

Before talking raise Hands

Create learning atmosphere

Not talk without topic

1. Definition of Climate change

Climate change as referred to in the observational record of climate occurs because of internal

changes within the climate system or in the interaction among its components, or because of

changes in external forcing, either for natural reasons or because of human activities. It is

generally not possible to make clear attributions between these causes. Projections of future

climate change reported by IPCC generally consider the influence on climate of only

anthropogenic increases in greenhouse gases and other human related factors (IPCC, 1995).

Climate Change in Rajanpur

District Rajanpur South Punjab of Pakistan lays in a “Semi-arid irrigated plain” zone, which is

country’s food basket and is the main source of livelihood of the people. The whole zone is hot in

summer and cold in winter. However in the recent past there are noticeable changes with

summers becoming long and extremely hot. According to the communities the rainfall is quite

irregular now, and does not go along the seasons. Livestock plays an important role in the

livelihoods of the poor communities. The increasing temperatures have increased water

requirements for livestock that will significantly reduce livestock productivity and increase the

incidence of livestock diseases and deaths. Farmers have complained of early summers and late

winters, and the increasingly unusual weather patterns that are now affecting their crops and

livelihoods.

District Rajanpur South Punjab area of Pakistan falls under the climatic zone that is prone to

flooding, especially after heavy rains during the summer. The soils are silt loam and gully erosion

is common. Heavy and intensive monsoons due to climatic variability may be increasing the land

erosion in these zones. Flash flooding especially in Rajanpur has significantly increased in recent

years, inflicting heavy losses to crops, livestock and houses (including stored food). The

agriculture in this area is more dependent on irrigation water; it is believed that climate change

will reduce water resources in the long run. At the same time, intensive monsoons upstream will

increase the risk of flooding in these areas. Temperature increases will affect crop yields and

quality of production. The decline in yields has already been noticed because of increases in

temperature in this zone.

Climate Change Causes

Carbon dioxide is one of the major greenhouse gases contributing to the problem of climate

change. It is released from the burning of fossil fuels for power generation and from

deforestation. That means our increasing use of electricity and the burning of wood and other

fossil fuel are releasing more carbon into the atmosphere, which may lead to disastrous penalty,

including the rising of sea levels, species disappearance, diseases, flooding or drought,

agricultural diseases associated with abnormal climatic changes.

We send greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

Industrial practices; cars, planes, factories, electricity, and solid trash.

Environmental practices; deforestation, and pollution.

Cultivation of land

Industrialization

Automobile revolution

Urbanization

Fossil fuel combustion

Population Explosion

Refrigerators

Chlorofluorocarbons (CCl3F, CCl2F2)

Rockets, Jets sent into space (Each rocket releases 75-150 tones of Chlorine).

Emission of green house gases from crops

Cultivation of land

Intensive agriculture practices

Use of chemical fertilizers

Use of Pesticides

Respiration activities

Burnings of straws, stubbles etc.

Decomposition of Organic Matter

Anaerobic rice cultivation

Livestock activities

Impact of Climate Change

Climate change is not only effecting the environment of Union councils Noorpur Machi

wala,Sakhaniwala, Morgahi, Fatehpur, Noorpur Manjoowala of District Rajanpur but also the

severe impacts on the people, livestock and agriculture in shape of diseases on agriculture, low

production, diseases on livestock and low production of milk and meat, and the severe diseases

on human beings.

Climate Change is already affecting the nation’s public health, according to a new multi agency,

Change in climate can be a primary for disease migration, but even so, such diseases do not

represent the broadest range of the possible, or even likely, human health effect of the climate

change.

Understanding how climate change is going to affect our health, we should have to develop such

type of adaptation, strategies and mitigations that not only alleviate or prevent some effect of

climate change, but will also potentially enhance human health. In these days the role of

weather in human health cannot be understand, that how climate is affecting on human health,

agriculture, environment and livestock etc. This change in climate is observing from 10 to 15

years. It can be a change in the average weather. The climate change was the biggest

environmental threat in the modern times and was likely to have profound consequences for the

socio-economic sectors such as health, food production energy consumption and security and

natural resources management. A change in climate can affect many related aspects of where

and how people, plants and animals live, such as food production availability and use of water

and health risks.

The impact of climate change is also affecting the disable and ill person, resulting in damages to

life, even to death.

Impact of Climate Change on Human Life

It was discussed with the community and community give inputs that Climate change is badly

impacting the human life in shape of dangerous diseases. Many of these diseases are no longer

present mainly because of change in land use, agriculture methods, residential pattern, and

human behavior. Peoples with allergy say that in summer season allergy spread like farcy.

Specially face and eyes allergy spread very much in summer season, eyes allergy spread due to

the hotness and fire and blood start to flow in eyes.

If someone has stone in his kidney then in summer season, he feels sever pain in his/her kidney

as compared to winter. Similarly asthma problem in summer, breathing becomes difficult.

Hypothesis problem is very high because in this condition hysterics start to the patients and

blood start to shrink in his body.

IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN WINTER ON SERVE ILL PERSON With changing of climate a lot of new disease are spreading in women such as their health

condition is becoming poor day by day and skin disease are becoming very common in people. In

this season TB spread among the people. Muscles shrink and health become damage day by day.

In winter season hypothesis problem increase very much, in this condition patient face and eyes

seem yellow, and involve in fever all the time. Asthma problem is very high in winter among the

peoples.

IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SERVE ILL CHILDREN

Some diseases are very common in children like elders. Children which are disable and weak in

their childhood, winter season shows a great effect on their health but in summer season they

feel relax. Due to Hypothesis problem liver stop to circulate the blood in the body. In apoplexy

condition children feel hysterics in day time. In summer season children become weak and lean,

allergy problem increase in this season, and face allergy convert into farcy, and fever increase.

In some cases we find that, the growth of children also affected in result of weight, height and

belly diseases.

IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON WOMEN WORKING IN AGRICULTURE

The agriculture sector is extremely sensitive to climate variability. Rising temperature and more

frequent floods can compromise food security and many other problems. Changing temperature

and pattern of rainfall are expected to alter distribution of insect vector that spread infectious

diseases, of these diseases malaria and dengue virus are of greatest public health concern.

Women, who work in agriculture, became weaker day by day because when they work in field

then they affected some diseases due to pesticide and fertilization. Before ten to years ago

summer and winter season was normal and every one work in field easily but now summer

season is very long and hot, so they are not able to work efficiently. Due to extreme summer

production and quality of crops is also low day by day. ..

some scientists predict, plants and animals may not be able to react quickly enough to survive.

What we can do about this burning issue

Plant Trees.

Recycle things

Walk, ride bikes instead of cars and buses.

Save electricity and other sorts of energy.

Read and Spread Awareness of Climate Change among people.

Use cars that save energy.

Find safe energy sources like the solar energy, to replace the fuel.

Use Energy Star machines; those machines save energy.

Reduce Green house gases emission

Reduce our demand of energy in

Our homes

Transport

Industry

Use Recyclable things

Ride bikes, walk and use less cars

Talk to Your Family and Friends

When You Buy, Buy Cool Stuff

Use less water, save it

Use less lights in household

Water wise cultivation

Less intensive cropping

Breed new heat tolerant and water saving crop varieties

High efficiency irrigation systems

Minimum tillage

Avoid burning of fossil fuels

Use water efficiently

Be green in your yard

Seal and insulate your home

Use Renewable Fuels

Act globally, eat locally

Participants led Discussion

At the end of sessions twenty mints are given to participant for discussion and during discussion

trainer checked the conceptual clarity of participant of climate change and in this sessions

trainer has observed that before this sessions people was not aware about climate change and

its causes and its effects but after the sessions they were clear about climate.

Recommendation of Participant: