The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and its Nepal partners organized a Nepal Day knowledge-sharing event on March 11 for enhancing climate resilience and adaptive capacity in Nepal. Dr. Andreas Schild, Director General of ICIMOD, called for a long-term perspective when addressing climate...
Keyword: Adaptive Capacity
Concept Note for the pilot project on Climate Change Adaptation for Sustainable Rural Development
The overall goal of the project is to improve the livelihoods and adaptive capacities of the vulnerable rural communities to the adverse impacts of climate variability and change. The project has two objectives: i. The public investment programmes for natural resource management and rural development (watershed and...
Adaptive capacity in the Solomon Islands
This is the story of one Red Cross society’s effort to incorporate climate change into its regular work, and what it found on Pileni island – remote even by the standards of the Solomon Islands. In 2010 the Solomon Islands Red Cross (SIRC) began working with...
New publication: A framework for Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments
The Indo-German development cooperation project Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Areas of India (CCA RAI) is pleased to announce the launch of its publication “A Framework for Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments”. The framework was developed by GIZ together with the Ministry of Environment, Forests and...
Investigating how Development Interventions Increase Community-level Adaptive Capacity in Ethiopia
The Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) has developed a “Local Adaptive Capacity Framework” (LACF) which lays out five distinct yet interrelated characteristics of adaptive capacity, with the underlying assumption that the positive impacts of these characteristics would enhance a community’s adaptive capacity. Contact: Africa Climate Change...
Strengthening local resilience to climate change
The challenge of climate change calls for action to assist vulnerable communities to cope and adapt. In keen awareness of this, numerous international CCA initiatives have emerged. Most of them involve large-scale, ‘high-tech’ infrastructure for physical protection. Such investments are often needed to deal with...
Vulnerability Assessment of People, Livelihoods and Ecosystems in the Ganga Basin
The report is published as part of the HSBC Climate Partnership WWF-India’s living Ganga Programme. It presents an analysis of a macro-level vulnerability assessment based on secondary data used to identify vulnerable districts for further assessment and pilot adaptation projects. The study was conducted in...
Climate change resilience in coastal Cambodia: Adaptive Capacity & Human Development
This policy brief is based on the findings of a participatory research effort: Climate Change Adaptation – Factors of choice, effectiveness, and supporting systems conducted in the provinces of Koh Kong and Sihanoukville, Cambodia in late 2010 and in January of 2011. This study is...
Pacific Islands Adapting to Climate Change (PACC) – Cook Island
The GEF assistance will be targeted at improving adaptive capacity to address climate change concerns at the national level and, at co-financing the implementation of pilots that reduce vulnerability to climate impacts which countries themselves have identified on the basis of nationally and scientifically endorsed assessments....
Pacific Islands Adapting to Climate Change (PACC) – Federated States of Micronesia
The GEF assistance will be targeted at improving adaptive capacity to address climate change concerns at the national level and, at co-financing the implementation of pilots that reduce vulnerability to climate impacts which countries themselves have identified on the basis of nationally and scientifically endorsed assessments....