Climate Adaptation from the Bottom-up: Collaboration between Malian Communities and Scientific Organizations to Identify and Implement Responsive Water Management Actions is a project that works at the community level to encourage discussion about the best method to present information on climate change impacts and risk gained through public-participation-GIS to community members. It also disseminates this information through materials (e.g. posters, videos, etc) and presentations designed to elicit potential adaptation strategies.

This project is a collaboration between government agencies, research institutions, media, extension services, and farmers. The actions it takes are to supply farmers with climate-related advice and to teach farmers to gather climate-related data (e.g., using rain gauges) so that they can incorporate climate variability into their decision-making. Advice comes from a multidisciplinary working group composed of meteorologists, representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, agricultural research institutes, rural development agencies, farmers, and the media.