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02.10.2015

Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis Handbook

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Climate change presents additional obstacles to ending poverty and achieving social justice. Rising temperatures, increasingly erratic rainfall, and more frequent and severe floods, cyclones and droughts all have significant consequences for the livelihood security of poor people; and development professionals are seeing first-hand the effects of a changing climate on their work around the world. In order to ensure that development programs reduce people’s vulnerability to climate change, we must understand who is vulnerable to its effects and why. Then, we must apply this information to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities.
CARE’s approach to climate change adaptation is grounded in the knowledge that people must be empowered to transform and secure their rights and livelihoods. It also recognizes the critical role that local and national institutions, as well as public policies, play in shaping people’s adaptive capacity. The Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis (CVCA) methodology helps us to understand the implications of climate change for the lives and livelihoods of the people we serve. By combining local knowledge with scientific data, the process builds people’s understanding about climate risks and adaptation strategies. It provides a framework for dialogue within communities, as well as between communities and other stakeholders. The results provide a solid foundation for the identification of practical strategies to facilitate community-based adaptation to climate change.

Read more: CARE – Climate Change : http://www.careclimatechange.org

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  • capacity analysis
  • climate change vulnerability