Key insights from ecosystem- and community-based adaptation practice
Climate adaptation planning requires an integrated approach that can address different local needs, priorities and knowledges while being contextualised to wider landscapes or ecosystems and scales.
Helping Communities Cope with Climate Change in the Bay of Bengal
Paribartan works with communities to create plans to address climate impacts, improve ability to cope with these impacts, test innovative practices and share lessons for advocacy and replication.
Gender and Vulnerable Groups
This poster is one of the posters featured at the 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9) which took place in Nairobi, Kenya, from April 24-30 2015.
Assessing Vulnerability in the Namakwa District
This study used statistical climate modeling to generate climate change scenarios for NDM. These feed a variety of recommendations for adaptation.
Vulnerability in Burundi
This case study describes an integrated vulnerability assessment undertaken on national and local scale in Burundi.
A closer look at the practices of vulnerability assessment and the priorities of adaptation funding
The burning issue in the climate change adaptation debate is arguably about funding: who should receive it, and why?
COMPENDIUM OF LESSONS LEARNED FROM ARCC CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS
Before considering how to adapt to climate change, it is first necessary to understand the extent to which natural and human systems will be affected by various change...
University of Washington
The University of Washington educates a diverse student body to become responsible global citizens and future leaders through a challenging learning environment informed by cutting-edge scholarship
Vulnerability Sourcebook
The Vulnerability Sourcebook is targeted at governmental and non-governmental organisations and aims to support their efforts to substantiate and enhance adaptation and development planning.
Local Adaptation Plans in Mozambique
Image caption: The Local Adaptation Plan is being presented to the community who participated in the theory of change and vulnerability assessment exercises, in Guija...
VA module e-learning
This module has been developed in response to the need for more guidance on vulnerability assesment, in particular for coastal areas, in Indonesia and the Philippines.
Protecting high mountain wetlands in Ecuador
Between 2009 and 2013, CARE worked as a strategic partner for the government of Ecuador as part of a Latin American regional project – Adaptation in Communities Facing Rapid Glacier Retreat.
Flooding in the Sahel
The Senegalese NGO ENDA-Energie engaged with local stakeholders to analyze existing challenges and support the promotion of effective adaptation strategies.
COBAM Rwanda Vulnerability
Introducing more trees into the farmed landscape would assist the landscape in coping with climate change. Credit: Charlotte Pavageau
Project summaryA regional...
Current vulnerability in Rwanda
Volcanic Mountains Rwanda. Image ©Jack Swenson
Project backgroundBetween 2011 and 2012, a regional baseline assessment to analyse vulnerability was conducted in five...
Current vulnerability in Equatorial Guinea
Atom village (credit: Daniel Morchain)
Project summaryA regional baseline assessment to analyse vulnerability was conducted in five landscapes of the Congo Basin as...
Equatorial Guinea case study
Forests in Equatorial Guinea. Image © WRI
Project backgroundBetween 2011 and 2012, a regional baseline assessment to analyse vulnerability was conducted in five...
Coastal Community Adaptation Project (C-CAP)
Pacific Island countries, some of which stand just a few metres above sea level, form one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change. The nature-based...
Integrating climate change concerns into disaster management planning: The case of Gorakhpur, India
Image courtesy iStock © Gawrav Sinha
Summary of Adaptation ChallengeGorakhpur District is recognised as one of the most flood-prone districts in Eastern Uttar...
Impact on Pastures Kyrgyzstan
Map shows levels of vulnerability to climate change in Kyrgyzstan
SummaryThe Kyrgyz government with the support of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has designed a...
Close to home: subnational strategies for climate compatible development
The battle for climate compatible development will be won or lost at the subnational level: in provinces, districts and cities. National governments depend on subnational...
GoLo CarSce: Global-Local Caribbean Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Scenarios
Low lying areas vulnerable to climate change. © golocarsce.
Research focusThe overall objective of the project is to help Small Island Developing States in the...
Key Final Results
Report on Key Final Results
Overall Project DescriptionThe USAID Mekong ARCC project is a five-year program (2011-2016) funded by the USAID Regional Development...
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