This material is largely based on the ACCCA project Synthesis Report Next steps
By Lawrence Flint - ENDA TM ENDA is one of the few truly international African NGOs whose constituency comprises African populations in urban...
Feeling Stressed: Integrating Climate Adaptation with Other Priorities in South Africa, Gina Ziervogel and Anna Taylor
We see adaptation a process of socio-institutional learning relevant for specific contexts, and producing adaptation outcomes and processes...
Current Climate and hazards
The founding organisations in the Centres for Climate Adaptation are: AWhere Inc.:A spatial information and visualisation company that provides...
SEI SEI Oxford is exploring induced responses including identification and analysis of adaptation options: major contributions have been the...
Because adaptation is viewed as a process of social learning, developing appropriate communication tools that allow stakeholders to build consensus...
1 Purpose of this guide: 2 This guide is designed specifically for: 3 Concepts and context 4 Process 5 Prototype projects 6 Links 7 Next steps...
By Lawrence Flint - ENDA TM, Dakar, Senegal Sen (1999) defines development as the creation of choice and lack of development as having no choice or no say in what happens.
To introduce the tools currently available for Adaptation To establish a collaborative space to organize, share and disseminate user-developer...
The Department of Urban and Rural Development at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), in collaboration with The Swedish Program...
Areas of Expertise: Public policy issues in risk and community safety; Emergency planning and management; Community resilience; The interface...
Follow this link for findings from the Bolivia NCAP project on the vulnerability of systems of production and human health around Lake Titicaca and perceptions of risk and change.
Lawrence Flint is Coordinator of Research into Climate, Vulnerability and Adaptation at Environmental Development Action (ENDA), based in Dakar, Senegal.
Long-term planning is essential To adapt effectively to SLR and other climate change effects planning needs to start at least 10 to 30 years ahead of time.
Small island states, such as those found in the region of Oceania, have a number of features that serve to increase their vulnerability to impacts...
The Pan-African START Secretariat (PASS) promotes collaboration within the African research community for sound scientific assessments of the...
Activities and Context (Mission)
ISET-Nepal was established in 2001 as a non-governmental and not-for-profit organization to study and analyse...
Activities and Context (Mission)
Cambodia was chosen as one of the countries under the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR) as part...
This project aims to develop a community-driven adaptation plan of action, as well as to facilitate the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation...
The Nigerian coast is one of the low lying lagoonal Western African coasts, which is likely to experience severe impacts from flooding as a result...
ENDA is working with local partners, including the Barotse Royal Establishment and local NGO Barotseland.com, to identify and assess the effect...
Metrics to measure progress in achieving targets for adaptation can be designed in different ways. They could be either expressed as financial...
Improving the use of seasonal climate forecasts in Lesotho Climate adaptation in the mountains of Lesotho Seasonal forecast use in South...
In recent years, reducing vulnerability to climate change has become an urgent issue in low- and middle-income countries, and is at the forefront...
On wikiADAPT this background paper prepared through the Circe project provides a good summary of many of the key works on adaptation, and the...
Local Institutions and Climate Change The World Bank’s Social Development Department, together with the Agriculture and Rural Development Department,...
Context Part of the logic for choosing Zambia and particularly the Zambezi floodplain region of western Zambia, which will be the initial geographical...
Due to its mountainous nature Macedonia has a varied climate that ranges from sub-Mediterranean to Alpine. Macedonia is not badly affected by...
This project was carried out under the Netherlands Climate Assistance Programme (NCAP)] which was funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign...
If you join us in this collaboration you will become part of a growing network of organizations working on climate change adaptation.
Faculty members and students at the Pennsylvania State University Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University examine the complex...
SEI is an independent international research institute engaged in environment and development issues at local, national, regional and global policy levels.
The Asian Institute of Technology promotes technological change and sustainable development in the Asian-Pacific region through higher education, research and outreach.
How we work
Sida's Swedish development cooperation is part of a global cooperation in which Sweden is one of many international participants.
The International Institute for Environment and Development is a global leader in sustainable development. As an independent international research...
Activities and Context (Mission)
Wetlands International’s mission is “to sustain and restore wetlands, their resources and biodiversity for future generations”.
Activities and Context (Mission)
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), established in Bangkok since 1959, is a postgraduate institution actively...
Activities and Context (Mission)
IGES established by an initiative of the Japanese Government in 1998, is a research institute that conducts...
Activities and Context (Mission)
SEI has worked in Asia on key sustainable development issues since it was founded. These initiatives came together...
Activities and Context (Mission)
The MRC is an international, country-driven river basin organisation that provides the institutional framework...
Activities and Context (Mission)
ADPC is a non-profit organisation supporting the advancement of safer communities and sustainable development,...
The National Target Program for Climate Change Adaptation is part of a DANIDA grant to support Vietnam’s National Target Programme on Climate Change.
As part of its Climate, Vulnerability and Adaptation Strategic Plan, ENDA is developing a network of pilot action projects across different ecosystems...
Climate change poses a significant risk to the sustenance of future generations in many places and a challenge for sustainable development planning everywhere.
Gender aspects of climate change, IUCN et al report [1] Climate Change and Disaster Mitigation: Gender makes the difference, IUCN briefing note by Aguilar, L.
This is an area that is evolving very rapidly. For the moment these is no central website that provides up-to-date information on the status...
Stockholm Environment Institute is an independent, international research institute specializing in sustainable development and environment issues.
On 5-6 February 2008, the Sida help desks for economics and environmental assessment and SEI explored collaboration in an extended brainstorm in Oxford.