Raichur 2050
The Climate Adaptation and Resilience In Tropical DrYlands (CLARITY) Project is an initiative by WELL LABS towards building resilient futures in Raichur, Karnataka.
WELL labs has been enaging with what can the development pathways for a resilient future in Raichur as part of the Climate Adaptation and Resilience In Tropical DrYlands (CLARITY) project. As part of the project, a set of tools were developed for farmers, farmer groups and government stakeholders to engage with regional development pathways for Raichur for 2050.
The first tool capture the aspirations of farmer groups for Raichur in 2050, while the second tool aims to enables farmer groups to explore, and experiment these different pathways and trade-offs for the future of Raichur.
Tool 1: Raichur Jigsaw: Understand community aspirations related to the physical and social future of the region.The first tool, Raichur Jigsaw, uses a participatory game based tool that enables participants to create a shared artefact representing the future, while also fostering dialogue around their collective needs and priorities. The participants build different aspects of the future like what type of land-use should be there, what types of activities should happen on the land, the water systems for these uses, and what types of technological support should be there and for what.
Read the Raichur Jigsaw Report (PDF)
Tool 2: Planning game: Understand trade-offs and gather community preferences on developmental pathways from different groups in a region.Raichur 2050 is a physical game that highlights the trade-offs inherent in implementing different imagined futures of a region. These imagined futures are developed from community aspirations and the potential pathways are adapted to community and stakeholder contexts.
Participants are engaged in making different choices and seeing the impacts and consequences of their choices. In each round, participants make decisions related to agricultural practices, changing land use to different types of industries and bringing in different systems of water distribution. The game provides participants with feedback of their decisions including changes in income for different groups, ground water levels, change in water distribution and impact on soil health.
The game allows players to explore and play with a model of the real world and see what if they made certain decisions and prioritised one aspect over the other.
Read the Raichur 2050 Report (PDF)
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