Launch of the CRISP-M tool
Channel: IIED
Date: 2021-10-15

This is a recording of an online event that launched a new digital tool that combines scientific climate risk information with the traditional knowledge, practices and skills of communities to help Indian communities undertake climate risk management more effectively

India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the world’s largest public works-based social protection programme, and its dual focus on wages and natural resource management assets provides the opportunity to enhance the climate resilience outcomes of the programme.

Evidence shows that MGNREGS is already helping communities cope with climate impacts to some extent. With the inclusion of climate information services in planning, implementation and monitoring, the scheme has the potential to help communities undertake climate risk management more effectively.

To realise the climate-resilience potential of MGNREGS, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), in partnership with MP Council of Science and Development (MPCST), has developed the Climate Resilience Information System and Planning Tool for MGNREGS (CRISP-M tool) for the Ministry of Rural Development, India.

Created with support from FCDO’s Infrastructure for Climate Resilient Growth (ICRG) programme, CRISP-M is a web and mobile phone-based geographic information system-aided tool that has been designed to help communities make climate-smart decisions. It helps enable them to absorb the effects of climate risks, adapt to climate impacts and transform their capacities to deal with growing climate impacts.

The speakers at the event were:

*Daljeet Kaur (co-moderator), climate and environment advisor, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
*Ritu Bharadwaj (co-moderator), senior researcher, IIED’s Climate Change research group
*Hon’ble Minister Shri Giriraj Singh (keynote speaker), Ministry of Rural Development, government of India
*Lord Tariq Ahmad (keynote speaker), Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth, UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
*Ben Webster (international discussant), head of secretariat for the Risk-informed Early Action Partnership, hosted at the ‎International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies – IFRC
*Dr Nicola Ranger (international discussant), deputy director and head of climate and environmental risk research, Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme
*Clare Shakya (international discussant), director, IIED's Climate Change research group
*Kamal Kishore (national discussant), member, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)
*Shantanu Mitra (national discussant), head, Infrastructure and Urban Development, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), India
*Dr Alok Choudhary (national discussant), senior principal scientist and head GIS&IP division, Madhya Pradesh Council of Science & Technology (MPCST)
*Dr Stutee Gupta (national discussant), scientist, National Remote Sensing Centre
*Rohit Kumar (closing statement), joint secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, government of India

More details: https://www.iied.org/launch-crisp-m-tool