How do you teach rural villagers about climate change when there is no word for “climate” in their language?This is one among many interesting and eye-opening experiences we encountered as we carried out the USAID Mekong ARCC adaptation planning approach across 20 communities in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB). Read on to learn more about how we helped increase rural villagers’ awareness about climate change, their understanding of how it will affect them and what they can do to prepare their communities for its impacts.
As two native Thai women our world views are deeply rooted in the Southeast Asian culture of our country, but we have also each benefited from spending time studying in the West and working for many years combined on international donor-led project. Our individual professional backgrounds and roles on the USAID Mekong ARCC project are different—Goong is a field coordinator and expert in rural community development, and Prim is the project’s Monitoring and Evaluation specialist with a background in capacity development—but our jobs frequently overlap and we often work together in the f
