developing capacity for planning adaptation

DEVELOPING CAPACITY FOR PLANNING ADAPTATION

the platform formerly known as ClEAR

How do users engage with climate adaptation?

Different entry points Specific outcomes Learning from each other, and by doing

Source: Centres for Climate Adaptation collaborating programme with UNEP and others

Developing prototypes with users Bolivia: Policy analysis in targeting adaptation Mali: Water & livelihoods in semi-arid areas Nepal: Framing NAPAs, monitoring risk Zambia: risk communication and planning

Source: Prepared using AWhere

A process developing a platform to serve practitioners

…shell; server; prototypes, examples, video; user guide, tutorial, reference library; policy frameworks, stakeholder analysis & engagement, policy-institutional capacity, vulnerability-exposure matrix, vulnerability assessment handbook, risk mapping (AWhere), climate trends & envelopes, links to impacts modelling (WEAP, CropSys), links to policy modelling (GAMS, RePast), criteria data base, adaptation data base, multi-criteria assessment, decision screening, policy scenarios & exercises, risk communication, participatory video, storyboards…(priorities for 2007)

Stakeholder analysis & engagement Competence in planning and

implementing adaptation as a process of social learningFrom policies to strategies to actions

Levels of analysisSelecting appropriate methods

Multi-attribute, social vulnerability Vulnerability-exposure Use climate information

Update climate time seriesLarge ensemble climate scenarios

Selection of climate station data available in AWhere

Robust decision paradigmValue of information in reducing uncertainty

in making a decisionEnvelopes of future conditions

Participatory, learning, social process

Video from ACCCA inception workshop in Burkina Faso

Adaptation as a social process Shared understanding Risk communication

Storyboards, participatory video, templates

A partnership open source/object/accessENDA, SEI, UCT...AWhere Inc…UNITAR,

UNEP To provide a platform a shared space Through prototypes learning by doing For practitioners to support users

ACCCA, CCAA, CLACC, NAPA, NCAP… In developing good practice be practical!

…an invitation to join the partnership…

…a few contacts (present at the meeting)

Tom Downing, SEI, tom.downing@sei.se Fernanda Zermoglio, AWhere Inc.,

fernanda@mudsprings.com Annie Roncerel, UNITAR, annie.roncerel@unitar.org Lawrence Flint, ENDA, lawrence.flint@gmail.com Takeshi Takama, SEI, takeshi.takama@sei.se