1. Structured interview questions for Community project managers and NGO project managers
Objective 1: Investigating the climate change knowledge and issues at international, national and community levels.
Questions
a. What is your understanding of climate change?
b. How did you get to know the issue of climate change and the impact it will have on your livelihood?
c. What are some of the climate change related issues that you are aware of locally?
d. How good is your understanding of other key climate change action players? And what is your relationship with any of these international, national and local players?
Objective 2: Understanding the adaptation strategies that the funding agencies, national government agencies, NGOs and government program offices and the local communities have for implementation in PNG.
Questions
a. What are your organizational plans to address climate change issues?
b. For how long has your organization been involved in addressing climate change issues?
c. What variables are more important in the community engagement in climate change adaptation projects?
d. Apart from your own group’s work programme, how complementary is your work with the other key stakeholders in PNG’s strive towards addressing climate change issues?
e. In what areas of climate change adaptation work is your group mainly focused on?
Objective 3: Identifying the most important variables that can make vulnerable communities in PNG to be more responsive to climate change in the future.
Questions
a. Based on your experiences, what were some of the success stories? And what are some of the problems in the strategy implementation?
b. What do you think are the most important variables that can make climate change easier to respond to in the future for PNG?
2. Structured interview questionnaires for Community Groups:-Church, Youth, Women and Project Advisory Group
Objective 1: Investigating the climate change adaptation experiences and issues at the community levels.
Questions
a. What is your experience of climate change projects that you are involved in at the moment?
b. Any success stories or how did you get involved and see the changes the project brings about?
Objective 2: Understanding the adaptation strategies that the funding agencies, national government agencies, NGOs and government program offices and the local communities have for implementation in PNG.
Questions
a. In what areas of climate change adaptation work does your group mainly participate in?
b. What is your experience on the type of support you get from others such as government, NGO, and individual for your work?
Questions
a. What do you think are the most important things that can make people more responsive to climate change in the future for PNG?
Final questions
4. In what overall ways, if any, have you seen climate change adaptation projects achieving some expected results?
If there is any time left, ask:
5. Finally, what other general comment do you have with regard to your project so far?
Thank you very much for your time and participation!
Appendix 4- 4: Questionnaire for international funding agencies,
NGOs, government department of PNG and their programme
offices online
1. Please write the name of your department, institution, organization and office that you represent in the box with your position/role at the present. If you are acting in this position, please indicate it also.
I wish to understand the knowledge and issues relating to climate change at the international, national and community level that you are aware of, and involved in. 2. Since climate change has become increasingly a global phenomenon that threatens all aspect of human wellbeing in recent years, how would you rate your level of understanding of this issue? (please tick one only)
Not very much Quite knowledgeable
Very well verse with the issue
If you are ‘Quite knowledgeable’ or ‘Very well versed with the issue’, what are the three most important issues that are threatening our wellbeing?
1)_______________________2)_____________________and, 3)___________________ 1__________________
I wish to understand the adaptation/mitigation strategies that the international funding agencies, national government departments, government commissioned programme offices, NGOs and local communities have for implementation in Papua New Guinea. 3) To date, there are number of agreements and actions undertaken by governments,
political leaders, institutions, organizations and local community groups. Which statement best describes your group’s role in addressing climate change issues? (please tick those that are applicable to your group’s engagement)
Provide funding support
Collaborate and establish bilateral/multilateral agreements Research and develop policy framework
Support implementation of climate change adaptation projects Directly involve in climate change adaptation projects
4. For how long have your group been involved in climate change adaptation and mitigation programme? (please tick one only)
One year or less Two to four years Five years or more
5. What things/variables are more important in the engagement of community in climate change adaptation projects? (you can tick more than one answer)
Raising awareness on the socio-economic vulnerability of the community Providing adequate financial and technical support
Enabling communities to make informed decisions to initiate and manage climate change projects
I wish to understand the most important variables that can make climate change more adaptable in future for PNG.
6. Based on your experiences in development and implementation of climate change mitigation/adaptation strategies, how would you rate your group’s success rate? (please tick one only and give brief reason in the space provided)
Low Medium High Reason:_________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 7. What would be the most important thing that can make climate change more adaptable in the future for PNG? (you can tick more thanone variable)
Adequate funding and technological support in a timely manner Encourage and support community initiated projects
Promote and support climate change adaptation projects that proved successful elsewhere within the region
8. Please give any other comments you wish on the issue of making people in Papua New Guinea adapting well to climate change in future.
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