CONCEPTUALISATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND IMPLEMENTATION OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS ON CLIMATE CHANGE

RESPONSE, MONITORING, AND EVALUATION IN LIMPOPO PROVINCE

Commissioned by the Department of Fisheries, Forestry and the Environment and Limpopo Economic Development, Environment and Torisim (LEDET), funded by the deutsche gesellschaft für internationale zusammenarbeit (GIZ), implemented by Indalo Inclusive and piloted in the Limpopo province; the IKS project is aimed at conceptualizing indigenous knowledge systems when responding to climate change issues. South Africa acknowledges that effective climate change responses need to be informed by a diverse range of information and/or data sets at grassroot level and have realized the lack of participation from indigenous people when formulating climate change responses. The objective of this initiative is aimed at increasing participation of indigenous knowledge in when formulating climate change response policies. The targeted stakeholders for this project are the indigenous knowledge holders, traditional health practitioners, communities and traditional leadership which to date were consulted through various stakeholder engagements in the Limpopo province.