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Assessing agroforestry practices and soil and water conservation for climate change adaptation in Kenya: A cost-benefit analysis  Short Info: Kenya’s National Adaptation Plan (NAP) addresses the country’s vulnerability and resilience to climate change and proposes a series of adaptation actions in agriculture. The widespread on-farm implementation of these actions will require adjustments including new technologies, reallocation of labour, and assistance to resource-poor farmers and policy interventions to address barriers to adoption. This study analyses the economic worthiness of adaptation measures currently being practised by some farmers on their land, using cost-benefit analysis (CBA), quantifying in monetary terms the value of the benefits and costs of a project, both financially (from the perspective on single entities, such as farmers) and economically (considering social costs and benefits accrued to various beneficiaries in society). The analysis helps to identify solutions – either policy options or investment projects – for an efficient allocation of scarce financial resources by comparing alternative projects and policies, then indicating whether financial resources should be allocated to support a specific option. The study’s findings can inform policy makers and development practitioners involved in formulating and implementing the NAP process. Providing Institution: FAO and UNDP |
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Building adaptive capacity through food and nutrition security and peacebuilding actions in vulnerable Afro and indigenous communities in the Colombia-Ecuador border area  Short Info:
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Climate Resilience Grants to Local Governments in Least Developed Countries Short info: To strengthen LoCAL, World Resources Institute (WRI) created the Assessing Climate Change Adaptation Framework (ACCAF). This paper explains three major challenges to ACCAF and the solutions proposed to address them: incorporating good practice in adaptation monitoring and evaluation (M&E) into the existing performance-based climate resilience grant system; addressing measurement issues inherent in mainstreamed adaptation; and balancing country-specific and portfolio-wide adaptation M&E needs. |
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Building adaptive capacity to climate change in vulnerable communities living in the Congo River Basin Short Info:The project aims to reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change and strengthen adaptive capacities of vulnerable communities and the ecosystems they depend on, by promoting food security, nutrition and use a gender sensitive approach. The project purposely targets those who are most affected by climate change, poverty, food insecurity, and who rely on agricultural livelihoods that are limited by and vulnerable to climate change impacts, especially women and indigenous groups.
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Enhancing Adaptive Capacity of Andean Communities through Climate Services (ENANDES)  Short Info: The Enhancing Adaptive Capacity of Andean Communities through Climate Services (ENANDES) – seeks to enhance the capacity of society and communities to adapt to a varying and changing climate by producing, communicating and assessing the use of credible, authoritative, and useful information as the scientific evidence for decision- and policy-making on preparedness for, and reduction of damages from climatic hazards in Chile, Colombia and Peru. Because increasing societal resilience to climate is not just about enhancing information, ENANDES will help build human and infrastructure capacity, and will seek to overcome institutional, technological and cultural barriers through increased coordination among climate and non-climate actors of society. |
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Local climate finance mechanism helping to fund community-prioritised adaptation  Short Info: International funding for climate adaptation has begun to flow from developed countries to developing countries, but progress is slow. Little of this funding is being channeled through sub-national governments to support community-prioritized adaptation projects. Specific mechanisms are needed to ensure a fairer distribution of these funds to the local level to support more vulnerable communities to adapt to climate change. |
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Tracking adaptation and measuring development (TAMD)  Short Info: The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is working with partners to develop and pilot a framework, called Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD), to track adaptation and measure its impact on development. This initiative is focused on enhancing the synergies between government entities who are working towards developing climate resilience policies, to make climate change as a mainstream part of development planning and to stem new thinking and frameworks for assessing climate risk; also to foster shared learning and a community of practice among public sector staff across developing countries. |
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Driving System Shifts for Climate Resilience: Case Studies of Transformative Adaptation in Bhutan, Ethiopia, and Costa Rica  Expected learning outcome: |
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Study on Readiness and Capacity Building for Direct Access to Adaptation Finance  Expected learning outcome: |
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Locally Led Climate Adaptation: What Is Needed to Accelerate Action and Support? Expected learning outcome: |
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The Adaptation Principles: 6 Ways to Build Resilience to Climate Change  Short Info: The report provides a range of practical tools that can help governments implement adaptation strategies. For instance, economic analysis methodologies can help to select the most important interventions, and budget tagging methods can ensure spending is consistent with expectations. A set of 111 indicators is also provided to enable governments to track progress toward greater resilience, to identify areas that are lagging behind, and to prioritize effective measures. It also sheds light on how the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic crisis can affect the design of an adaptation and resilience strategy, recognizing how it has changed the development landscape in all countries. Providing Institution: World Bank |
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The Climate-ADAPT Adaptation Support Tool: practical experience and use for policy, planning and decision making  Short Info: This Climate-ADAPT Adaptation Support Tool (AST) webinar aims to improve knowledge dissemination on the Climate-ADAPT AST and its further development to promote its use, e.g. for strategic policy processes, awareness raising, planning, development of guidelines, etc. At the same time, the webinar intends to highlight and present how the AST is being used in practice and can be tailored to the real needs of users. Finally, the webinar aims to stimulate participants to contribute to enriching Climate-ADAPT and further sharing and disseminating its knowledge |
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Toolkit for a Gender-Responsive Process to Formulate and Implement National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)  Short Info: |
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Towards Gender-Responsive NAP Processes: Progress and Recommendations for the Way Forward
Short info: This report presents an analysis of progress on integrating gender considerations in NAP processes, such as what are the focus, how gender analysis has been applied, etc., based on a review of completed NAP documents available on NAP Central as of January 2018, as well as data collected directly from country NAP teams.|
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Addressing forestry and agroforestry in National Adaptation Plans
Short Info: This publication is designed to help countries integrate these considerations into adaptation planning through the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process. It focusses on technical guidance on the integration of forests, agroforestry and trees in the formulation and implementation of NAPs. Providing Institution: FAO and FTA |
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Addressing agriculture, forestry and fisheries in National Adaptation Plans – Supplementary guidelines
Short Info: These guidelines provide specific guidance for national adaptation planning in the agricultural sector. They are intended to be used by national planners and decision–makers working on climate change issues in developing countries and authorities and experts within the agriculture sectors who are contributing to climate change adaptation and NAP formulation and implementation. |
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The Adaptation Support Tool  Short Info: The aim of the Adaptation Support Tool is to assist users in developing climate change adaptation strategies and plans by providing guidance, links to relevant sources and dedicated tools (urban practitioners find a specific Urban Adaptation Support Tool). |
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Urban adaptation support Tool  Short Info: The aim of the Urban Adaptation Support Tool (UAST) is to assist cities, towns and other local authorities in developing, implementing and monitoring climate change adaptation plans. UAST was developed as a practical guidance for urban areas, in recognition of their importance in the European economy. The Urban Adaptation Support Tool outlines all the steps needed to develop and implement an adaptation strategy and makes references to valuable guidance materials and tools. The tool offers valuable support to both the cities that are just starting on the adaptation planning and to those more advanced in the adaptation process. |
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Adaptation Policies Checklist Short info: An ex-post evaluation tool designed to assess the level of progress of climate change adaptation policies. The tool consists of a checklist covering policy, economic, scientific and legitimacy issues, and resources used for adaptation planning. It is based on 17 indicators and 53 metrics that cover general aspects of adaptation policies. |
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Understanding resilience thinking Short info: Understanding Resilience Thinking introduces the concept of resilience and links it to adaptation and capacity-building. The training focuses on assessing resilience and devising sustainable development plans and conservation actions. Resilience assessments provide a framework to identify relevant actors, determine governance issues, evaluate potential trends and dynamics, and analyse potential traps and transformability. This framework of assessment guides intervention and the development of an action plan to empower actors and decision-makers to build resilient communities.
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Introduction Community-Based Disaster Risk Management Short Info: Communities possess vital knowledge and experience in identifying, understanding, and managing disaster risks that they face, and harnessing this potential is at the core of Community-Based Disaster Risk Management, or CBDRM.This course aims to introduce you to the key concepts and terminologies of CBDRM and guide you through the steps in the CBDRM process. It is particularly useful for stakeholders in disaster risk management with a desire to expand their knowledge base.Providing bodies: the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), Government of Indonesia, with support from Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID). |
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Integrating Climate Risk Information into NAPs Short info: The course Integrating Climate Risk Information into NAPs shows how to strengthen National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) through appropriate climate information and coordinated policy action, enabling different types of institutions and actors to work together in a collaborative framework, drawing on the resources of the global hydro-meteorological community at large. |
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Making the Right Choices - Prioritizing Adaptation Options  Short info: At the outset of any adaptation initiative, it is important to assess the implications of climate change on the natural systems (e.g. biodiversity) and the human society (e.g. human health) to determine how and to what extent they will be affected. There are several measures that can be implemented to reduce risk and vulnerability. Due to financial and human capacity constraints, not all actions can be implemented simultaneously, and it is important to study the implications of all measures. Knowledge of the implications such as costs and benefits for each adaptation option will form part of the strategic decision-making process during adaptation planning. This tutorial will introduce the process of appraisal and prioritization and some tools that are used in the adaptation options appraisal process once adaptation options have been selected for consideration. |
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Keeping the Taps Running in a Changing Climate  Short info: This tutorial introduces the concept of mainstreaming climate change adaptation into water resources. The effects of climate change are observed through the scarcity or abundance of water which in turn has serious impacts on other key socio-economic sectors such as health, agriculture, energy and infrastructure. For any climate change adaptation planning to be done, it will be important for these sectors to consider their linkages with water resources. |
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International Aviation: Intro to States' Action Plans to Reduce CO2  Short info: This e-tutorial aims to build an understanding of the importance of States’ Action Plans to address CO2 emissions from the international aviation sector. By establishing close cooperation among all stakeholders, it will help facilitate the selection, adoption and implementation of the most appropriate measures to reduce the CO2 emissions. The tutorial has been developed by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in collaboration with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Action Plans will support the improvement of efficiency and thereby contribute to the global environmental aspirational goals established by the ICAO Assembly. |
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Covid 19: Forests offering solutions to recovery  Short info: Each year, UN forest day celebrates and raises awareness of the importance of forest by organizing broad range of events, mainly for enhancing knowledge about the significant role of forests in adaptation and mitigation efforts. In conjunction with that this webinar highlights the significant role forests play for the health of people, animals, and the environment. It also highlights the Future Policy Gold Award Winner Rwanda’s Forest Policy. It will also hear about the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative, the most ambitious climate-change adaptation and mitigation response under implementation worldwide. The webinar is part of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, which aims to accelerate action for the protection and restoration of ecosystems all around the world, for the benefit of people and nature. Providing Institution: World Future Council (WFC) |
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Capacity-building to address climate change in the LDCs  Short info: The importance of capacity building to address climate change cannot be overstated. Globally, about 70% of the developing country NDCs and 83% of the LDC NDCs submitted to the UNFCCC put capacity building as a condition to implement their NDCs. This need for capacity building support overwhelms other kinds of international assistance including for climate finance. Capacity building as a non-politicized agenda under the politically charged UNFCCC process is coming up as a very important issue. The purpose of the webinar was to have a frank dialogue with the LDC partners to explore the broad capacity needs and gaps to address climate change more effectively. The event followed a brief presentation on capacity building, followed with a panel discussion where designated discussants focused on the importance of the long-term capacity building needs for different stakeholders in the LDCs as well as how this can be achieved. |
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Gender inequalities in social protection – people, households and climate adaptation Short info: Climate risks place a heavy burden on many households in developing countries, with basic needs such as food, water and shelter threatened. Some finance adaptative measures by using savings and capitalising assets, others receive support from social protection schemes. This online discussion explored
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Vulnerability Reduction Credits (VRCs™) enabling better adaptation to climate change Short info:Adaptation projects may be difficult to prioritize and sustainably finance as the results of projects are difficult to quantifiably measure and compare across project types, and no singular “unit” for adaptation outcomes exists. The Vulnerability Reduction Credit (VRC™) incorporates cost/benefit analysis and per capita vulnerability equalization tools to measure the outputs of climate adaptation projects, quantifying in a singular unit expected and delivered measures to reduce vulnerability to climate change. The presentation summarized the structure and utility of VRCs and showed through a case study how communities facing climate risks may understand and respond to these risks more effectively. |
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Mechanizing climate resilience in agriculture – The case of smallholder farmers in Paraguay. Short info: Black Soil provides innovative agricultural extension services, combining the application of starter fertilization and water into the furrow at the time of sowing by its own machine that can be retrofitted to any existing seed drill. The solution increases seed germination rates, makes farmers independent of rain for optimum sowing windows, increases root development and hence drought resilience, as well as increases biomass development and hence reduces evapotranspiration. Results on over 15,000 hectares sown show increases in productivity of 15 – 30% for industrial farmers while significantly cutting fertilizer application, by 40 – 60%. |
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Green Resilience: Adaptation + Mitigation Synergies Short info: Green Resilience” measures yield both climate change mitigation and adaptation benefits. In this webinar, Steve Winkelman provided examples of Green Resilience measures in the energy, transportation and water sectors. He summarized the benefits of Green Resilience including: |
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Integrated Environmental Analysis in Monitoring for Adaptation – Getting the Right Data, Doing Effective Analysis Short info: Effective climate adaptation actions and policy often require integrated data analysis from sources that are disparate or non-existent. Country-level action requires solid and regular information for reporting as well as understanding of key issues by key stakeholders – civil society included. In this webinar, the Climate Technology Centre's network partner, Design-Environment (DE), discussed its work in integrated environmental analysis, particularly in Small Island Developing States. The importance of this evidence-based approach to policy and planning for building the green and blue economies was emphasized. In addition, DE discussed creative and strategic communications tools for mainstreaming these principles. |
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