 
Service delivery agents play a significant role in helping rural communities to deal with risks emanating from climate variability and climate change. They can be active promoters of adaptation measures and support vulnerable communities in building capacity to better cope with adverse impacts of climate change.
The Vulnerability Assessment and Enhancing Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Semi-Arid Areas in India (V&A), supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), has therefore identified the agriculture extension system as a key entry point for effective climate change adaptation support.
To this end, Intercooperation and MANAGE have worked jointly to develop training modules on `Climate Change, its Impacts and Adaptation’, to be delivered as part of MANAGE’s watershed and SREP training programmes. The modules aim to enhance awareness of climate change and build extension agents’ capacities to incorporate climate change considerations into their extension work.
The modules were first presented at a consultation workshop held at MANAGE on 16th July 2009. The workshop was chaired by Director General of MANAGE, Shri K.V. Satyanarayana (IAS), who underscored the importance of taking a systematic approach to climate change considerations in extension work at all levels. Stakeholders in extension planning and delivery attended the workshop. They expressed their appreciation for the launch of the training modules and provided valuable feedback on how this work could be taken forward. | 
