In addition to modelling data, it is important to engage local communities, with special attention to women and vulnerable groups, to capture local information. It is important to value knowledge from community-level experiences to design robust adaptation strategies. At the local level, access to actionable climate information is challenging. Climate data and projections are available at the district level and capacities to translate that information into impacts and make inferences for work are often limited at the ground level. In such cases, non-governmental organizations or other agencies can play a crucial role in capturing and highlighting the right local socioeconomic and climate information. Engaging with communities helped to identify existing challenges in the cropping system and water-related infrastructure in order to design need-based adaptation interventions. Furthermore, to integrate these prioritized interventions in local-level planning processes, it is crucial to continuously engage with the Gram Sabha (village council) members and district officials. This will create awareness about past and future climate change and impacts, as well as work on the budget and policy cycle at the local level to find entry points.