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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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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...
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...
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...