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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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Briefing paper presenting lessons learned from working with women smallholders on food security: R. Tripathi;K. Deering;N. Saracini / 2012; This briefing paper is the result of a collaboration between nine different agencies, sharing lessons learned from working with women smallholders in order to close the gender gap in agriculture. Desp...
Guidebook for designing and implementing gender-sensitive community-based adaptation projects: K. Vincent;L. Wanjiru;A. Aubry / United Nations Development Programme , 2010; This guidebook for designing and implementing gender-sensitive community-based adaptation (CBA) projects has been produced by the UNDP. It draws on the experiences of the UNDP-Global Environment Facil...
Mainstreaming climate change adaptation in Mozambique: A multi-level framework for analysing institutional barriers and opportunities: D Sietz;M Boschütz;R., J., T Klein / Science Direct, 2011; This paper explores the opportunities and barriers inherent in mainstreaming climate adaptation as part of current developmental projects already underway in Mozambique. The paper offers a multi-level...
Getting the most from Integrated Assessment Modelling: A., G Patt;D., P van Vuuren;F Berkhout / Springerlink, 2010; The history of Integrated Assessment Modelling and climate change are closely interlinked, and as new information and ideas come to light, it becomes necessary to incorporate them into the Integrated ...
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...