Malawi launches climate change project

Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD), an international body aimed at educating future leaders whose actions will influence decisions on environment, has launched a climate change project called Building Capacity for Adaptation in West and Southern Africa in southern Malawi’s former capital of Zomba, APA learnt here Thursday.

The project will encompass Malawi, Mali and Senegal, according to LEAD Regional Director Sosten Chiotha.

Chiotha said the project aimed at interacting with communities on climate change and then come up with a training package on how local communities in these three countries could adapt to climate change.

"We would like to compile all the information, including findings from elsewhere, and then will come up with a training package," he said, adding that the project would find out what the communities already know about climate change and how they understood and what they were doing to stop the phenomenon.

The project which is based at the University of Malawi (UNIMA)’s main campus of Chancellor College will run for three years from 2008 to 2010 with support from UK Department for International Development (DFID).