Published 2023
“…The strong interest and willingness of both SAMIS and The Alliance- supported DeRISK SE Asia projects to collaborate and work together in generating impact at scale have brought significant technical advances
and useful content to the Laos Climate Services for Agriculture (
LaCSA) system. The collaboration, which started with DeRISK supporting specific training topics and activities for SAMIS, has expanded organically into various areas of work such as: i) development of cropping calendars for provinces and districts (both English and Lao languages); ii) development of tailored agro-climatic advisories disseminated on
weekly basis at district level and seasonal scale at provincial level for irrigated, rainfed and lowland rice, maize, cassava, banana, coffee, pumpkin, livestock, cabbage; SAMIS is using official website, Facebook, Whatsapp, at provincial and district levels and loudspeaker and school posters in villages as communication channels for dissemination; iii) development of field level crop monitoring tool for near real time monitoring and information sharing using Kobo tool with pending Ministerial Order from MAF endorsing the tool as official field data collection for
LaCSA; iv) assessment of adaptive capacity of agricultural livelihoods to be use for national adaptation planning; v) support to develop M&E data collection tools, analysis and reporting. …”
Get full text
Case Study