Gameplay
Facilitator sets the game and explain the rules.
Players make decision in groups how to act in face of the climate change.
The magnitude of the flood or drought is set by a roll of dice.
Facilitator ends the game with debriefing and discussion with the players.
Context
Decision-making. Flood. Disaster risk.
Target group
Benefits
Upstream-Downstream can help understand how decisions made in an upstream community can affect a downstream community and vice versa how information about probability of drought or flood can affect decision-making the benefits and tradeoffs related to risk preparedness in the context of climate variability and change.
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Materials
game board (the game board can be drawn using 2 sheets of easel paper and red, blue, and green colored markers)
a long table that accommodates 12 people, and the game board.
100 beans in a bowl, 3 per farmer
6 normal white dice, 1 per upstream farmer
1 colored six-sided die to represent regional rainfall, for facilitator
100 green tokens in a bowl (green tokens can be substituted with alternative materials), 6 per upstream farmer
100 brown tokens (young trees), in a bowl (brown tokens can be substituted with alternative materials)
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Difficulties
Problems with preparing materials necessary to play game.
