Bangladesh NCAP Project
The coastline of Bangladesh is particularly vulnerable to the sea level rise in the Bay of Bengal on account of the low-lying deltaic environment. The tropical cyclones, which...
Adaptation Metrics
Objectives
Developing actor-process metrics of adaptation focuses on the competence to achieve reductions in current...
Participatory adaptation planning in rural Zambia
People in the Mazabuka District have experienced drought and flood episodes in recent years. They are solely dependent on mixed crop-livestock agriculture, which is entirely rain-...
Addressing climate vulnerability in rural Sudan
The dominant livelihoods are herding, rain-fed farming, forestry and gum collection. People are mainly vulnerable to drought cycles and erratic rainfall. This comes on top of...
Communication
This case study describes Gloucestershire Village Agents, who support people aged 50+ in rural areas of Gloucestershire during disasters.
Vulnerable communities adapting to floods in Kenya
The changing climatic scenarios in the Lake Victoria basin, extreme climatic events including floods ravage the livelihoods of communities in Kano plains. In the past, long rains were mainly...
Pastoral System
The dryland areas of Tanzania are characterised by an extensive livestock system, where pastoral communities use cattle to meet many of their needs and as a store of wealth. Their...
Mediation
Assessment of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation requires a combination of generic and context-specific knowledge. Currently, the availability of such knowledge in Europe is...
Community Based Fire Management
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The incidence of bush fires in Mozambique has become an issue of growing concern at the district and national level in recent years. These...
Mozambique Climate Analysis
This report uses historical data and climate projections to assess how climate change may affect the operations of Mozambique's Instituto Nacional de Gestão de Calamidades...
Flooding and drought
The project aims minimize the impact of flooding and drought by strengthening drought and flood mitigation among rural poor in the district and reduce the...
Drought vulnerable community
Dry spells lead to drought
ActivitiesThe project aims to enhance the adaptive capacity of the drought vulnerable community in the North West Region of Bangladesh....
ACCCA Ouagadougou
The ACCCA project in Ougadougou is looking at adaptation in urban and peri-urban areas. Climate change has the potential to destroy the socio-economic progress that the city has...
ACCCA Nigeria
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 of rising sea levels and climate change. Nigeria also has low adaptive capacity due to its limited experience with adaptation techniques. Livelihoods are now recognized as a key element in people’s adaptive capacity and vulnerability to climate-related stresses.
ACCCA Niger and Tunisia
The Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) member states are located within the Sahalian zone in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid dry regions with primarily agrarian economies. Stresses within...
ENDA Communities, W. Zambia project
''The flood that comes every year can make or destroy our way of life. It has always been that way but these days we see more extremes of flood or drought and this is causing serious problems with...
ACCCA Afram Plains
ACCCA Ghana poster
The broad purpose of this project is to design and implement successful and sustainable climate change adaptation strategies that address food...
ENDA Communities Banjul project
Beach erosion near Banjul, The Gambia
The main objectives of the project is identifying climate related stresses in the pilot action zone, assessing the vulnerability...
ACCCA/ENDA Communities Tigray Project
Committee meeting in Kihen Tabia
Project DescriptionThis ACCCA project brings together poor communities in drought-hit regions of northern Ethiopia with technical...
Integrated Coastal Management for Adaptation
NCAP Colombia evaluates the vulnerability of key economic sectors to climate change effects in the coastal area and identifies strategies to build capacity to cope with potential SLR-...
Adaptation to Sea-level Rise in Bengal Bay
The coastline of Bangladesh is particularly vulnerable to the sea level rise. The tropical cyclones, which strike the coastal areas periodically, create misery and loss of life, property...
Building National Capacity for Adaptation
The NCAP project in Ghana was implemented over the course of three years in two separate phases. The aim of the project was to strengthen national capacity in Ghana to respond to the...
Adaptation and DRR
As a result of the combination of high exposure to climate events, high sensitivity and the low adaptation level, climate events have already severely affected poor rural communities in...
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