FRACTAL Learning - Adaptation Inspiration Theme Module 1-6 Summary
This is a summary article signposting the FRACTAL Learning modules 1-6 on inspirational adaptation cases in Africa.
Inovasi Bumi
INOBU developS policy innovations and IT applications that are tested on the ground and then adopted by partners.
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Identifying and Analysing Stakeholders
Through a case study approach, based on studies of two Swedish urban regions this paper proposes a systematic method to analyze and identify stakeholder roles and responsibilities in adaptation.
Method Development for Identifying and Analysing Stakeholders in Climate Change Adaptation Processes
Through a case study approach, based on studies of two Swedish urban regions, Stockholm and Gothenburg, this paper proposes a systematic method to analyze and identify stakeholder roles and responsibilities in adaptation.
Economics of Stakeholders based Climate Adaptation
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Livelihoods of a watershed people are highly interlinked. If the climate change effect appears in the watershed, it affects the whole...
Social network characteristics
Social network mapping is used to help identify stakeholders in climate adaptation planning.
Ecosystem based adaptation: a multi-stakeholder affair
Ecosystem based adaptation: a multi-stakeholder affair

Adaptive management
Flood pulse management cycle that will shift with climate change and fishing efforts.
Adaptation challengeCreation of fishing agreements in managed lakes and...
Participation and the Facilitator
The role of the facilitator is extremely important. Even the best-planned approaches can fail if the facilitator fails to enable everyone to contribute. Who is the right person to facilitate the process? Who will take the ultimate responsibility for coordinating the process?
Learning and Power
Learn about the significance of power and how it can act in positive ways (empowerment) but also in negative ways, for example through excluding people from participating in the process or manipulating what information is shared.
Planning Stakeholder Engagement
How do you engage stakeholders after they have been identified? Effective use of stakeholders requires that decision-makers use the right stakeholders in the right place at the right time and undertake appropriate analysis of the elicited information.
Stakeholder Analysis
This background article provides an introduction to stakeholder analysis.
Stakeholder Identification
Learn about useful exercises for identifying stakeholders that have a legitimate stake in the outcome of a decision or project.
Sub-Module 1.3 - Stakeholder analysis and engagement
Identification of stakeholders, and developing a plan for their participation throughout the screening process will be based on sound stakeholder analysis.
Participatory Processes
What are participatory processes? The main purpose, and the power, of any participatory approach, is reflection on the material generated to identify what has real meaning, and thus to ensure that the information that comes out of discussions results in real action.

ACCCA experiences: implications of risk communication strategies for adaptation decisions
The risk communication strategies implemented in the ACCCA project produced rewarding effects on several levels in that community concerns were given voice through multi-stakeholder dialogues...
What weADAPT Offers
What weADAPT offers to Policy Makers, Project Officers and Researchers.
Sub-Module 3.2 - Learning by example
There are several different modes of learning which would be grouped under the umbrella theme of learning by example, and these are suited to different types of decision making.
