8. Annexes to Section 2: Including the excluded
Annex 1
Mapping strategic linkages between ICTs and climate change:
The strategic linkages of ICTs playing a role in climate change can be summarised within the “5 I’s”:
(1) Information- Creating and raising awareness about the direct and indirect impacts of climate change, especially at the grassroots level.
- Disseminating and diffusing critical local knowledge of local solutions among communities to galvanise action.
- Capturing and gathering information to ensure upstream and downstream information flows and information management systems.
- Enabling people to have ownership of the process to formulate localised and just coping strategies.
- Enabling people’s participation in climate change adaptation processes and their input into policy and implementation plans.
- Facilitating political advocacy, policy work and negotiations at national and international levels.
- Helping people set up institutional support systems that will support climate change adaptation (i.e., through ICT-enabled institutional strengthening and networking among grassroots organisations and communities themselves).
- Using ICTs to help monitor progress and provide incentives to those who adhere to good practices on the ground.
- Facilitating innovative processes for defining, capturing and sharing localised coping strategies among communities.
Annex 2
The CapDev Butterfly: A capacity development model with four dimensions
Source: SDC Working Paper “Capacity Development in SDC” April 2006
The CapDev Butterfly represents a metaphor in which the four wings correspond to the dimensions of the individual, the network, the organisation and the system. The butterfly orients itself on potentials and opportunities, and flies only when it moves its wings in a coordinated way. With one wing alone, it cannot move forward. In other words, an organisation’s development is successful at the moment when individual competencies are strengthened, internal processes and structures are adapted, and relationships to other organisations are improved. The purpose of the “butterfly” is for participants to attain a specific performance, both independently and in cooperation with others. The process leads to empowerment if it provides actors with access to resources and allows them to articulate their interests, demand their rights and participate in social and political processes. Empowerment is aimed at a transformation in the balance of power in favour of disadvantaged actors and thus at the elimination of the causes of poverty.
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