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Community Based Adaptation

CBA-X is a shared online resource designed to bring together and grow the Community Based Adaptation community. It provides a site for the exchange of up-to-date information about community-based adaptation, including news, events, case-studies, tools, policy resources, and videos.

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Using cost-benefit analysis to analyse community based disaster risk management projects: ( D. Willenbocke (ed) / Practical Action [Intermediate Technology Development Group] , 2011); This study provides a systematic cost-benefit analysis of a community-based disaster risk management project led by Practical Action in two districts of Nepal over the period 2007 to 2010. The objecti...
Approaches to mainstreaming climate change adaptation into local and national planning in Nepal: ( G. Karki (ed);B> Regmi (ed);J. Ayers / , 2012); Nepal was among the last countries to develop the National Adaptation Plans of Action (NAPAs) but it has been able to pick lessons from NAPA processes in other countries. In response to these lessons,...
Access to energy in Africa: impacts of climate change: ( F. Denton (ed) / Arid Lands Information Network , 2011); Modern energy services are essential for reducing poverty. Countries need energy to increase economic production, which improves livelihood options for women and men. Energy is also needed to increase...
Survivors?: Pastoralists in a changing climate: ( Arid Lands Information Network , 2011); Pastoralism is a free-range livestock production system. It is practised in all of Africa’s dryland regions, and in some communities it is the main source of food security and income. But will p...
Is a community-based approach best for targeting the most vulnerable?: ( H. Reid;S. Huq;L. Murray / International Institute for Environment and Development , 2010); This report presents project and activity summaries from the fourth international Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) to Climate Change held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2010. It notes tha...
Impacts of climate change on health: focus on Africa: ( M., J. Chimbari (ed) / Arid Lands Information Network , 2010); The interactions between health and climate change are clearly recognised; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change includes a chapter on health issues in all its publications. But we still need ...
Linking disaster risk management and climate adaptation strategies: ( A., A. Rahman (ed);F. Rajabali (ed);M. Alam (ed) / Development Research Network , 2010); This brief focuses on how disaster risk management approaches are taking longer term climate change perspectives. The intention is to highlight, through a series of case studies and research summaries...
Sustainable forestry management to cope with climate change in Africa: does REDD have a role to play here?: ( P. Minang (ed);H. Neufeldt (ed) / Arid Lands Information Network , 2010); Over 70 percent of Africa’s population depends on forests: for fuel wood, construction materials, medicine, food, and revenue from forest products. Governments and conservationists recognise Afr...
A digital toolkit on Community-Based Adaptation: learning by doing approach: ( CARE International , 2010); Adaptation is now recognised as an essential part of the global response to climate change. Based on decades of experience, development actors are increasingly promoting a “community-based&rdquo...
A living toolkit on mainstreaming adaptation into development: ( CARE International , 2010); It is critical to integrate, or “mainstream” thinking about climate change into development strategies, plans and programmes. This is especially true when pursuing goals that are most like...