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Hyderabad (Telangana): For the first time in India, National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR), has launched an initiative to improve the adaptive capacity of the rural poor engaged in farm-based livelihoods to cope with climate change. It seeks to establish a large-scale proof of concept on integrating community-based climate change planning and adaptation by working with climate-smart Community Resource Persons (CRPs) and National Resource Persons (NRPs). The training manual for this ‘Sustainable Livelihoods and Adaptation to Climate Change (SLACC)’ certificate Course was released by Dr W.R.
Reddy, IAS, Director-General, NIRDPR, last week during the first training program for Community Resource Persons (CRPs). “The Ministry of Rural Development is striving to protect the small and marginal farmers from climate vagaries and secure their well-being. The SLACC project is funded by the Special Climate Change Fund, which was set up under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to finance global projects relating to adaptation, technology transfer and capacity building, among other areas..