Sierra Gladfelter sierra.gladfelter@colorado.edu Zambia June 3 - August 23, 2016 View photo gallery for photos from the field by Sierra Gladfelter

Anticipating Disaster: Local Dependence on Formal Climate Information vs. Traditional Ways of Knowing

Executive Summary
Final Report

Notes from the Field

• Blog 6: Moving Forward Together: A Presentation of my Findings to the Zambia Red Cross Society
• Blog 5: Early Warnings for Floods: Formal Interventions vs. Traditional Forms of Relaying Critical Information
• Blog 4: Anticipating Disaster: Formal Climate Information vs. Traditional Ways of Knowing Floods and Droughts
• Blog 3: Zambia Humanitarian Actors Platform: Establishing a Space for Sharing Best Practices and Influencing National Policy
• Blog 2: Community Action Plans: Learning the Art of Compromise in Serving Local Visions
• Blog 1: Adaptive Small Scale Farming on the Zambezi River Floodplain

In Zambia, Sierra will be supporting the monitoring and evaluation component of the 'City Learning Lab processes’ Zambia Red Cross Society program. This includes supporting the facilitation and documentation of the First Lusaka Learning Lab for the Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) project, including contribution to the development of a learning framework and establishing a learning baseline, researching background materials and preparing reading materials in collaboration with the FRACTAL team and documenting learning during the Learning Lab interactions and compiling a learning report. In addition, Sierra will support ongoing field work activities of the Zambia Red Cross Society as well as contribute to the sharing of concepts for the ‘Forecast Based Finance’ project, compiling existing materials on forecast based finance, developing a participatory training course to illustrate the principles of Forecast Based Finance.