Assessment Of Local Community Understanding Of And Response To Climate Change The Case Of Four Kebeles Of Dire Dawa City

Climate change is causing the greatest environmental, social and economic threats to all ofrnmankind and across borders in many nalio17s. Perception aboul the causes, impacts and thernnecesswy reJpol1se mechanisms 10 cope with climate calamilies is important.!or any popula/ionrnin a g iven community. In view of this fact therejore, this study considers local coml1lunityrnunderstanding of and response to climate change, foc using mainly on insight of Ihe localrncommunity 011 weather change, climate change, causes and the impacts of climate change,rnunderslClnding of local community lowards flood risk. local cOlJl/llunily concern and personalrnimporlance o.lrhe climate change issue and perception of the local community on controlling orrnadapling 10 Climate Change.rnThe sludy was canducled in four kebeles' of Dire Dawa Adminislralive Council as one ~llhernflood prone area in the country. Allhough Ihis study explores a variety of palenlially salientrninfluences on percepliol1s Clnd re~ponses fo C/imale change, one faC ial' Ihal is given par/icularrnallel1lion is experience and understanding afflooding.rnThe silidy relied on bOlh qualilalive and quautilalive melhods oldala colleclion and analysis. 7i,ernprimw)' claw were collecled by using qualilalive daw galhering fOols sllch as FGDs ami keyrnin/ormanl inlerviews. Accordingly. /11'0 FGDs, were held wilh local people purposivelv ,I'e!ecledrn.f;~om Iwo kebeles. Int erviews were done with eight purposively selec(ed individuals. With (he viewrnof supplemenling (he qualilalive data, Ihe sludy employed a ljueSlionnaire survey wilh 107rnsampled heads ofhou.l·eholds selecledji'om four keheles of Dire Dawa.rn1i,e/indings ollhe s"fdy showed Ihallemperailires had increased, rain/all levels had decreasedrnand Ihe liming of rain/ all had undergone changes and Ihe region is gelling drier and drier in DirernDmva. 717e findings also confirmed lital weather is changing solely due to al1lhropogenic (humallrnaCliviry; callses. The finding also showed I/-WI. Ihe locet! comllnmily awareness (audrnunderslanding) of C/imale change does not seem 10 have advanced in recel1l years and hence,rnIhere is li/fle awareness oflhe issue ofclimale change. The Jinding soughllhat wifh regard 10 Ihernconnection belweenjlooding and c/imale change, Ihe respondents do nol al all see (he connec/;onrnbelween dimale change and flooding. Masl people Ihink Ihal climale change hm begun ({nd arngrelt/ many acknowledge Ihal il is a serious problem. lIawever, compared 10 olher problems, IherncOIJIJ/1unily has not ranked clilJ1clle change among lIS lOp cOl1cerns.. A10st respondenls blamerngovernment and businesses maslfor not doing more to combat clima!e change. They (hink theserninstitutions - e5pecially governmenl - should do more. MOSf people recognize !hal Ihey, asrnindividuals, and their local c0ll11l11ll1ity also make some c011ll'ibllliol1 to climate change and manyrnjeellmea.y aboUllheir own role.rnFil1a/~y, {he study slIggesls, creating awareness among the population and po/icyl11akers abou(rnclimate change. its callses and ils co}}sequences is needed. Information needs (0 he provided {ornthe CUl1IlIIlfIlily in order for {hem 10 lake appropriale adaplive measlIre.'}· and cOI'I'ince INople ofrnthe greal seriousness (~r the prohlem (l clilllate change by making clear Ihe mogl/illldf! (l thernpossible lusses ;ulloll'ed.

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