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Tools and practice

A toolkit for practitioners to support climate mitigation and adaptation in communities

This publication provides practical tools for practitioners to support poverty reduction through mitigation and adaptation to climate change in developing countries. These tools and methodologies are gleaned from a learning-by-doing approach from projects implemented in Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Tanzania and Mozambique.

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Tool for analysing vulnerability: ( CARE International , 2009); Effective adaptation is based on a solid understanding of vulnerability to climate change. The impacts of climate change affect people differently based on their capacity to respond. What this means i...
Farmer perceptions to climate change adaptation: ( C. Nhemachena;R. Hassan / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2007); Adaptation to climate change involves changes in agricultural management practices in response to changes in climate conditions. It often involves a combination of various individual responses at the ...
Key ways of reducing impacts of climate change in the Arctic: ( J. Ford;T. Pearce;B. Smit / Arctic Institute of North America , 2008); Existing policy responses to climate change in Nunavut, Canada have largely focused on mitigation. However, because of the likelihood of adverse climate change impacts there has been a growing push fo...
Community-based climate adaptation: a guide to selecting appropriate technologies for communities in need: ( S. Thorne;B. Kantor;I. Hossain / SouthSouthNorth , 2007); Adaptation to the impacts of climate change will require considerable innovation and cooperation, and technology could hold the key to this process. However, in much of the developing world, techno...
Community risk assessment: a bottom-up approach to climate change adaptation: ( M. Van Aalst;T. Cannon;I. Burton / Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness , 2008); Community Risk Assessment (CRA) refers to participatory methods to assess hazards, vulnerabilities and capacities in support of community-based disaster risk reduction, used by many NGOs, community-ba...
Helping farmers learn from each other: the Lead Farmer project in Malawi: ( Development Fund, Norway , 2008); Food insecurity is one of the major threats that the people of Malawi face. 90% of Malawian farmers are smallholders who face a host of challenges in their farming activities, including:...
Community Risk Assessment: methodologies and case studies: ( ProVention Consortium , 2007); This webpage presents an extensive collection of methodologies and case studies on Community Risk Assessment, collected and analysed by Cape Town University, Ben Wisner and the ProVention Consortiu...
Building climate change into community-based development activities: ( R. Jones;A. Rahman / Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia , 2007); This article highlights the value of a community-based adaptation (CBA) approach to addressing vulnerability to climate change, and describes the rise of the CBA movement, and its current state.&nb...
How should humanitarian organisations integrate increased climate risk into their work?: ( Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness , 2007); Climate change presents additional challenges for humanitarian organisations responding to disasters and complex emergencies. This guide provides a basic overview of climate change science and its ...
Designing, implementing and monitoring community-based climate adaptation projects: ( M. Alam;L. Mqadi / Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary , 2007); Sustainable community-based strategies can play an essential role in helping poor and vulnerable communities adapt to the risks posed by climate change. The Adaptation Programme of t...