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Title: Review and Comparative Assessment of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Frameworks DEVELOPING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MONITORING AND EVALUATING AND LEARNING FOR TARGET KNOWLEDGE USERS TO SCALE UP ADAPTATION ACTION IN COUNTRIES
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Created: 14/07/2022 11:16
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NWPPartner: Wageningen University
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NWPGeographicRegion: Africa; Asia; Caribbean and Central America; Europe; North America; Pacific/Oceania; South America
NWPGeographicScope: Global; Local; National; Regional; Subregional
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Target group: Academics and scientists; Communities; Policy makers; Practitioners; Private sector
Modified: 16/10/2023 14:46
Modified By: Lilian Daphine Lunyolo
NWPReferences: The link to the full report will be available shortly. 
Adaptation element: Adaptation planning and practices; Capacity building; Climate observations; Climate scenarios; Communication and outreach/awareness; Education and training; Financial support; Institutional arrangements; Knowledge management; Monitoring and evaluation/M&E; Science and research; Stakeholder involvement
Adaptation sector/theme: Agriculture; Food security; Ecosystems; Biodiversity; Health; Ecosystem-based adaptation; Community-based adaptation; Infrastructure; Human settlements; Gender; Indigenous and traditional knowledge; Urban resilience; Services
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Description: Motivation and context:
Robust monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) frameworks can play an essential role in increasing one's
adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change, by allowing organizations, policymakers, and practitioners
to assess and improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of their climate change adaptation actions
regardless of the context and scale.
 
This project and report's specific purpose was to identify
relevant MEL frameworks, tools, and approaches that could be applied to systematically measure the impact
of knowledge products on the implementation and scaling up of adaptation in the context of the work of the
NWP.
 
Methodology
The research and writing team of this report adopted a stepwise approach and methodology that consisted
of four sequential steps:
a review of the existing literature,
soliciting inputs from experts through
interviews,
a comparative assessment of relevant MEL approaches, frameworks, and tools, and
formulating recommendations.
 
The insights from the literature review, expert interviews, and comparative
assessment were iteratively integrated in this report, initially discussed in different sections, to then be
combined to form the evidence base for the recommendations. The literature review consisted of both peer-reviewed
literature and gray literature – including, amongst others, reports and working papers from
governments, NGOs, and international organizations. Semi-structured interviews based off a standardized
questionnaire constructed by the research team were conducted with various experts engaging in the field of
MEL, who shared insights according to their knowledge and experience in applying specific MEL approaches
and tools to their work. 
The comparative assessment, divided the approaches and applications found in the
literature review and expert interviews by shared features, resulting in three distinct overall approaches of
MEL to be compared. Relevant applications of each approach were then described and comparatively
assessed over a variety of criteria.
 
The three initial phases of the project culminated in a series of evidence-based
recommendations and MEL framework features that are highlighted and divided into 3 main subcategories.
 
Key findings
From the review of the literature, it emerged that there is no universally accepted definition of MEL in the
context of climate change adaptation. Key specific features such as indicators and criteria for assessment
differ according to the context, requirements, and objective of the different MEL frameworks, highlighting a
no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach. However, some common features identified underscore the use, function and
importance of MEL frameworks, including integration of information across sectors, geographical scales, and
through time; community learning and capacity development; supporting governments in planning and
decision-making processes; and identifying investment priorities at different levels. Overall, across scales and
contexts, MEL systems are characterized by (1) the definition of the context of the MEL system; (2) the
identification of the content (i.e., adaptation intervention) to be monitored; (3) the design of the
operationalization process; and (4) the establishment of strategies to communicate the results, in line with
the purpose of the MEL system.
 
The comparative assessment of MEL approaches was articulated around three overall approaches
identified: 
Outcome Mapping which focuses on the changes - in behavior, relationships, activities or
actions of the ‘boundary partners’;
Theory of Change/Theory of Action which helps to assess the
pathway through which action and change will be achieved; and
Co-Productive Approaches with MEL
framework embedded in an inclusive, collaborative and flexible process to improve the use and uptake of
knowledge, leading to action.
 
Some key features highlighted in the assessment included the scope each
MEL frameworks was applied within (local, regional, national and global scales), the diversity of boundary
partners, the diversity in types of indicators used across different contexts and levels, and the types
adaptive, flexible and iterative approaches used in each framework. Several challenges identified across
approaches and applications included achieving sufficient engagement of key stakeholders across scales
with respect to inclusivity, capacity, and depth of engagement (amongst other factors) in the design and
operationalization of these MELs; the availability and accessibility of consistent, reliable and action-oriented
data to knowledge partners; and contextualization (or lack thereof) of adaptation outcomes and impacts
following an intervention action or project. Additional challenges found within all three initial phases of this
project address additional issues with effective and efficient stakeholder engagement, issues in navigating
limited resources (such as time, data, financial, technical, and/or institutional capacity), the impact of
climate change uncertainty factors, the impact of and difficulty in establishing baselines and targets for
future projects and projections, challenges in assessing attribution, and effectively applying an MEL
framework that can operate over long time horizons.
 
Recommendations: 
The recommendations of this report are divided into three main categories: 
Methodological
Considerations, 
Indicators and Criteria, and 
Capacity Building and Institutional Context, all of which are
further supplemented by Appendix 05 which is comprised of a list of resources deemed to be relevant
references for the deployment and development of an operational MEL.
The Methodological
Considerations section is a series of recommendations on how to combine different approaches and
methodologies from the Theory of Change, Outcome Mapping, and Co-Productive MEL approaches for the
creation of an operational and specialized MEL framework for climate adaptation and knowledge uptake.
The primary recommendations of the Indicators and Criteria section revolve around the importance and
necessity of standardizing the operational definitions of key terms, concepts, and indicators across
programs and projects. 
This includes the importance of including relevant climate indicators (such as
hydro-meteorological indicators) in projects revolving around climate adaptation or mitigation projects as a
factor for assessing the outputs, outcomes, and impacts under shifting baselines due to climate change
uncertainties.
 
The final recommendation section, Capacity Building and Institutional Context, highlights the
importance of designing and implementing a parallel structure within an MEL so as to assess both the
internal and external capacities of a project or program and the context (i.e., region, community,
institution, government) it is applied within to determine both the framework and project’s ability to
sustainably function and achieve set objectives. If the design of a project or program cannot be sustainably
supported or realized in the region, then that has implications for how successful and effective that project
and intervention may be. Both this section and the first include recommendations for the inclusion of and
amplification of stakeholders’ concerns, voices, and input.
 
The report is then concluded with a section discussing its report’s Limitations in the context of the course
framework, time frame, and resources available, followed by the bibliography and appendices.

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Title: An Analysis of the Desertification/Land Degradation-Socioeconomic Nexus in Egypt's Delta Region
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Created: 06/04/2023 07:00
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Good practices and lessons learned: Key beneficial practices and lessons include: 
1. Collective action and capacity building are the most effective ways to combat climate change. 
2. Integration with partners on the national and international levels, academics and scientists from inter-disciplinary fields: economics, agriculture, climate change and GIS have collaborated and produced a comprehensive picture that would not have been possible from one field of study. 
3. Capacity building including mentoring, workshops and training helped to learn advanced research methods, as well as designing policies that can touch local communities and civil society closely. 
4. Updating data and informing government entities that data dissemination is an essential element for development.
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NWPOutcome: A memo (in Arabic) was submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation highlighting the key project outcomes. The memo included an analysis of the ESI maps, a recommendation of crops to soil suitability, socio-economic policy action to improve communication between farmers and government entities as well as mapping ESI to socioeconomic characteristics of individuals on the district level.
 
The ESI maps indicated that most of the districts of Alexandria are unsuitable for farming owing to their proximity to the Mediterranean Sea, and the nature of the industrial activity located there. Recommended actions include modifying the region’s strategy, by converting it into fish farming (aquaculture) rather than agriculture. The results indicated that the highest degree of land degradation and desertification (>1.530: CAA3 (HSL)) is concentrated in the Beheira Governorate, specifically the Qattara Depression area and Wadi Al-Maghra (representing 46 percent) of the total area of the hinterland of the Beheira Governorate. Several suggested treatments are also proposed to reduce the impact of soil degradation and productivity in the long term.
 
On the other hand, a Vulnerability Assessment including a mapping of the socioeconomic status of individuals on the district level in both governorates to the environmental sensitivity index found that the areas most affected by land degradation have the lowest socioeconomic status. For instance, Dalangat is the most sensitive district to land degradation in Beheira, which is also characterized by relatively lower agricultural revenue, the lowest wealth index, as well as the lowest average years of schooling.
 
In Alexandria, the Mena El-Basal district is the most sensitive area to land degradation and is also characterized by the lowest wealth index, the lowest average years of schooling, a higher-than-average household size of approximately 6 people, and high population density, leading to high urban sprawl in that area.
Therefore, the proposed policy action would be designing customized interventions for the most affected areas and highly stressed on avoiding the “One Size fits all” approach.
 
A detailed elaboration of the project will be available as a journal paper to be updated here.

NWPPartner: The British University in Egypt
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NWPGeographicRegion: Africa
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Country: Egypt
Target group: Academics and scientists; Communities; Policy makers; Practitioners
Modified: 03/05/2023 17:10
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Adaptation sector/theme: Agriculture; Food security; Coastal areas/zones; Community-based adaptation
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Description: The Nile Delta is a main source of agricultural production for Egypt yet it is amongst the world’s most vulnerable areas to climate change. The region comprises 11 governorates including Beheira – one of Egypt’s largest Delta governorates, and Alexandria– Egypt’s largest coastal governorate and second-largest city. Beheira and Alexandria are facing risks including sea level rise, desertification and urban encroachment on agricultural lands all of which are impacting national agricultural production.
 
Hence, this research aimed at exploring the socioeconomic impacts of desertification/land degradation in Alexandria and Beheira and propose an actionable policy plan to support decision-making and subsequent implementation.
 
The research sought to address two knowledge gaps indentifed under the Lima Adaptation Knowledge Initiative (LAKI) — gaps (10 and 11) identified for the North Africa sub-region; (10): Insufficient information and knowledge about interconnections between desertification and socio-economic development, (11): Limited information and knowledge sharing on interlinkages with other sectors.
 
The following methodology was followed to accomplish the aim of the research: 
Adopting the MEDALUS-GEE approach to calculate the Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI), a proxy for desertification/ land degradation. 
The Ricardian Approach using the Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) to examine the economic impacts of climate change on agricultural revenue (aggregated from the five main crops) on the governorate level. 
Assessing the interlinkages between the desertification/ land degradation and socioeconomic development on the individual level through employing Principal Components Analysis (PCA) on the ESI sub-indices, then running Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) to regress the wealth index of individuals on land degradation, along with other explanatory variables.
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Title: CLIMATE SMART AGRICULUTURE YOUTH NETWORK
ID: 29365
Created: 06/04/2023 07:00
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Adaptation element: Capacity building; Climate observations; Climate scenarios; Education and training; Impact assessment; Knowledge management; Monitoring and evaluation/M&E; Science and research; Technology support
Adaptation sector/theme: Agriculture; Food security; Energy; Gender; Indigenous and traditional knowledge; Heavy industry
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Description: Climate Smart Youth Agriculture Network is program that works with women, local communities and students to attain sustainable agriculture. The student-Farmer out reach program enables the bottom up type of approach where the farmers give their views on sustainable Agriculture which is taken up for innovations. The local communities are reached out through focal persons and farm demonstrations done at the locality.
The universities Sustainable Development Goals dialogue which being carried out among university in Kenya has brought sharing ideas among youths on ways to faster attainment of SDGs and combating climate change
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Title: Risk management theory and practice
ID: 29361
Created: 01/04/2023 07:00
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Description: Risk management theory and practice

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Title: Forest-based adaptation: transformational adaptation through forests and trees
ID: 29360
Created: 01/04/2023 07:00
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Description: Forest-based adaptation is an ensemble of climate actions that employ forests and trees in support of climate change adaptation and resilience, including sustainable forest management, forest conservation and restoration, reforestation and afforestation. Forest-based adaptation can help address the gaps between current adaptation actions and the adaptation needed for reducing climate-related risks and impacts, while contributing to most of the Sustainable Development Goals and promoting strong synergies with mitigation.
 
This FAO technical paper unpacks the concept of forest-based adaptation and describes policy spheres that could bolster the role of forests and trees in providing adaptation and resilience benefits. It introduces a set of ten principles for using forests and trees to promote transformational adaptation, which were developed with leading experts from the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) and other partners. It describes the policy implications of each principle and draws on examples from diverse forest ecosystems and management practices to illustrate their application in practice.
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Title: Oceanic Global Foundation
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Created: 30/03/2023 07:00
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Description: Oceanic Global reminds us of humanity’s essential relationship to the ocean and guides us in restoring equilibrium to our blue planet. Our work is designed to deepen humanity’s connection to the ocean, and provide tangible solutions for resilience and rewilding of our blue planet. Collectively, our core programs blueprint for coexisting in harmony with our natural world. #CareDeeply | www.oceanic.global
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Title: Institute for Land and Community Resilience, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria
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Title: WATER SECTOR TRUST FUND
ID: 29357
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Adaptation element: Adaptation planning and practices; Capacity building; Financial support; Monitoring and evaluation/M&E; Science and research; Stakeholder involvement; Technology support
Adaptation sector/theme: Water resources; Ecosystems; Biodiversity; Adaptation finance; Disaster risk reduction; Human settlements; Gender; Urban resilience
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Description: Water Sector Trust Fund (Water Fund) is the Kenyan State Corporation under the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation mandated to assist in financing water, sanitation and water resources management projects in the underserved and marginalized rural and urban areas. In the Water Act, 2016, the mandate of the Water Fund is to provide conditional and unconditional grants to Counties and to assist in financing the development of and management of water services in the marginalized and underserved areas . The Water Fund has developed five main mechanisms of financing and executing its operations as follows:
a) Rural Investment; support towards implementation of water supply and sanitation projects in underserved rural communities. The programme is implemented through water utilities serving rural areas.
b) Urban Investment; support towards water supply and sanitation projects for low-income urban areas. This programme is implemented through the Water Services Providers (WSPs).
c) Water Resources Climate Change Investment; gives support to communities to effectively conserve their catchments, manage and protect the water resources within their sub-catchments. The programme is implemented through Water Resources Users Associations (WRUAs); Community Forest Associations (CFAs) and Conservancies, International NGOs (INGOs) and Community Based Organizations (CBOs). Technical support to the beneficiary communities is given by partner institutions eg Kenya Forest Service (KFS), Water Resources Authority (WRA) and Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT).
d) Results-Based Financing: support towards water and sanitation projects in urban low-income areas, financed through loans from Kenyan commercial banks, which are then subsidized by Water Fund on achievement of agreed targets. The programme is financed through Water Services Providers (WSPs)
e) Research and Innovation Financing: support towards financing of research and innovation initiatives within the sector. The outputs of these initiatives are geared towards generation of new knowledge in the sector, provision of innovative, practical and cost-effective solutions in the realization of sustainable provision of water, sanitation and sewerage services in addition to water resources management as well as addressing gaps through collaborations and adaption of innovative models for better service delivery.
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Title: Regenerative Society Foundation
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Description: The Regenerative Society Foundation is a participatory foundation made by and for companies, born to promote a new regenerative socio-economic model. RSF aims to accelerate the ecological transition by scaling up regenerative projects, creating and sharing knowledge about Regeneration, providing the private sector with impact evaluations, resources and problem solving. RSF mission is to promote the Regenerative model for businesses to accomplish the ecological transition. Its macro-objective for 2030 is to develop and institutionalize a regenerative model across its founding companies to be generalized outside, through actions in 4 main areas of intervention: 1. Reducing GHG and rebuilding the carbon stock in the earth and water biospheres 2. Preserving biodiversity 3. Developing circular materials and supply chains 4. Nurturing and targeting well-being while pursuing the double benefit - health and happiness. The focus is on European businesses. The goal is putting companies at the center: they are the main actors which, collectively, can reach the critical mass needed to trigger the change and, at the same time, improve the citizens' well-being. RSF provide companies with assistance, specifically through knowledge transfer (education, advisory & project mentorship), financing solutions and reporting, establishing strong public private partnerships.
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Title: Catalogue of Ecosystem-based Adaptation measures in mountains
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Description: Mountains are at the frontline of climate change, exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and socio-economic inequities for both mountain communities and those downstream. However, mountain communities have the capacity to adapt to these changes and mitigate the impacts of climate change. By utilizing the opportunities created by ecosystem services, mountain communities can build climate-resilience, resource security and consistent livelihoods. This publication presents and highlights the experiences using Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to build climate resilience in three mountain ranges: the Andes in South America, the Himalayas in Asia, and Mt. Elgon in East Africa. Its main objective is to provide practical information on these experiences to inform NbS practitioners, decision-makers, project designers and managers, researchers and local communities.
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NWPCountryItem: Nepal, Bhutan, Peru, Colombia, Uganda, Kenya
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Title: United Nations Global Compact
ID: 29354
Created: 03/03/2023 07:00
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Description: In the framework of Caring for Climate, a series of publications on adaptation and business were published between 2011 and 2015.
- Adapting for a Green Economy: Companies, Communities and Climate Change (2011) – Provides the business case for private sector adaptation.
- Business and Climate Change Adaptation: Toward Resilient Companies and Communities (2012) – Showcases 10 case examples.
- The Business Case for Responsible Corporate Adaptation: Strengthening Private Sector and Community Resilience (2015) - Outlines the benefits for businesses of implementing adaptation activities.
 
Water Resilience Coalition: The Water Resilience Coalition, founded in 2020, is an industry-driven, CEO-led coalition of the UN Global Compact’s CEO Water Mandate that aims to elevate global water stress to the top of the corporate agenda. 20 companies have joined the Coalition and signed a pledge towards three overarching 2050 commitments. The Coalition is a part of the Climate Champions’ Race to Resilience.
 
Ocean Work: The Ocean teams’ work also has many activities relating to adaptation notably through its Ocean Stewardship Coalition and its Safe Seaweed Coalition, but also its work on Marine Spatial planning, blue finance and nature-based solutions.
 
Adaptation and Resilience in Africa: Climate Adaptation and Resilience is one of the five thematic areas for new program development as a part of UN Global Compact’s new Africa Strategy. Adaptation is also one of the commitments included in the Africa Business Leaders Climate Statement of the UN Global Compact-convened Africa Business Leaders Coalition. In 2023, the coalition will be focusing on capacity building for the implementation of such commitments.
 
Adaptation partnerships: We are part of the SBTN Council, the TNFD Forum, and The WEF Adaptation community of purpose. We are aiming to follow the developments of their frameworks and amplify these efforts.
 
Just Transition and Adaptation Think Lab Brief: A Business Brief on Just Transition and Adaptation, written in collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute, was released at COP27 in the framework of our Think Lab on Just Transition.
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Title: Promoting Synergies Between Climate Change Adaptation and Biodiversity - Through the National Adaptation Plan and National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan Processes
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Created: 03/03/2023 07:00
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Description: This technical brief is a joint collaboration with the Nairobi work programme expert group on biodiversity and climate change adaptation and has been published as a supplement to the NAP technical guidelines. It targets country-level Convention on Biological Diversity and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change focal points and technical staff of ministries who are engaged in the planning and implementation of NAPs and NBSAPs.
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Title: Promoting synergies between climate change adaptation and biodiversity through the NAP and NBSAP processes
ID: 29352
Created: 16/02/2023 07:54
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Target group: Academics and scientists; Communities; Policy makers; Practitioners; Private sector
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Description: The UNFCCC knowledge-to-action hub, the Nairobi work programme, has collaborated with its expert group on biodiversity and climate change change adaptation to close a knowledge gap on biodiversity and climate change adaptation, identified through the development of a scoping paper.
 
The technical brief reviews the interconnections between biodiversity and climate change adaptation and explores the potential to foster synergies between the processes to formulate and implement NAPs and NBSAPs. This is underpinned by highlighting practical entry points and lessons learned from case study examples on effective coordination and joint implementation of climate change adaptation and biodiversity actions at the national level.
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Title: Resilience Rating System : A Methodology for Building and Tracking Resilience to Climate Change
ID: 29351
Created: 16/02/2023 07:53
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Description: Resilience is the capacity to prepare for disruptions, recover from shocks, and grow from a disruptive experience. The World Bank Group has developed a Resilience Rating System that provides guidance and specific criteria to assess resilience along two complementary dimensions. 1. Resilience of the project rates the confidence that expected investment outcomes will be achieved, based on whether a project has considered climate and disaster risks in its design, incorporated adaptation measures, and demonstrated economic viability despite climate risks. 2. Resilience through the project rates a project’s contribution to adaptive development pathways based on whether investments are targeted at increasing climate resilience in the broader community or sector. The objectives of the Resilience Rating System are to: (a) Better inform decision makers, investors, and other stakeholders on the resilience of projects and investments; (b) Create incentives for more widespread and effective climate adaptation through enhanced transparency and simpler disclosure; (c) Identify best practices to allow proven lessons on resilience to be scaled up across sectors and countries; (d) Guide project developers on the best ways to manage risk and improve the quality of projects, while allowing flexibility for different sectoral and country contexts. The resilience rating methodology, from C through to A+ in each dimension, can serve as a guide for institutions, public and private sector participants.
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Title: Forest-based adaptation: transformational adaptation through forests and trees
ID: 29350
Created: 01/02/2023 07:00
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Description: Forest-based adaptation is an ensemble of climate actions that employ forests and trees in support of climate change adaptation and resilience, including sustainable forest management, forest conservation and restoration, reforestation and afforestation. Forest-based adaptation can help address the gaps between current adaptation actions and the adaptation needed for reducing climate-related risks and impacts, while contributing to most of the Sustainable Development Goals and promoting strong synergies with mitigation.
This FAO technical paper unpacks the concept of forest-based adaptation and describes policy spheres that could bolster the role of forests and trees in providing adaptation and resilience benefits. It introduces a set of ten principles for using forests and trees to promote transformational adaptation, which were developed with leading experts from the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) and other partners. It describes the policy implications of each principle and draws on examples from diverse forest ecosystems and management practices to illustrate their application in practice.
One of the case studies (Case study 5) presents the use of the NWP Knowledge-to-action methodology to integrate forest and grasslands into adaptation strategies. This is being undertaken in collaboration with the NWP thematic expert group on biodiversity and climate change, representing 25 experts.
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Title: Handbook System for the Design and Implementation of EbA
ID: 29349
Created: 01/02/2023 07:00
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Description: This handbook system was created to guide the process of designing, setting up, implementing, monitoring, and up-scaling EbA interventions under the global Programme “Scaling Up Mountain Ecosystem-Based Adaptation: building evidence, replicating success, and informing policy”, supported by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), Germany, and jointly implemented by IUCN from 2021 to 2022 and The Mountain Institute from 2017 to 2019. The contents of this handbook were applied by country teams of the Programme to take stock, generate learnings and replicate and consolidate what was implemented in the previous Flagship Programme (from 2012 to 2016), demonstrating its use is highly valuable at the outset of projects. The utilization of the handbook system for implementation has been adapted into this publication with the aim to share these materials and methodology with the larger EbA community. This document takes the EbA practitioner through the 7 stages of the EbA cycle, from selecting suitable sites for EbA interventions to supporting the process of mainstreaming EbA. Each stage is summarized and supported by resources and forms. The Forms
help with recording information in a systematic manner, helping with decision making processes and ensuring consistency and comparability for particular aspects of EbA across interventions in different project sites.
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Title: 360° Resilience : A Guide to Prepare the Caribbean for a New Generation of Shocks
ID: 29348
Created: 01/02/2023 07:00
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Adaptation element: Adaptation planning and practices; Institutional arrangements; Monitoring and evaluation/M&E; Stakeholder involvement; Vulnerability assessment
Adaptation sector/theme: Agriculture; Food security; Water resources; Ecosystems; Biodiversity; Coastal areas/zones; Health; Ecosystem-based adaptation; Disaster risk reduction; Infrastructure; Gender; Urban resilience; Tourism; Services
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Description: Caribbean countries, a set of mostly Small Island Developing States (SIDS), have a history of dealing with large shocks. The region is threatened by both economic and natural hazards. Nations have specialized in tourism and commodity exports, disproportionately exposing them to global economic cycles through changes in tourism demand and commodity prices. They are also located in a region that is highly exposed to a range of natural hazards, from volcanic eruptions to earthquakes and hurricanes, which damage their infrastructure stock, reduce tourism demand, and destroy agricultural production. Hazards have often caused severe damage to economies and livelihoods in the region. This report reviews existing assessments of past losses from natural and economic shocks in the Caribbean, looking at impacts on physical capital, private sector activity (especially tourism and agriculture), economic growth, poverty, and well-being. It concludes that, despite the damage to physical capital experienced by countries due to natural hazards (especially in housing and transport infrastructure), the impacts on growth are short-lived, possibly because many mechanisms are in place to help economies bounce back rapidly. However, natural hazards have a high impact on poverty and human capital and threaten the sustainability of economic growth.
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Title: Adaptation Principles: A Guide for Designing Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
ID: 29347
Created: 01/02/2023 07:00
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Description: Effective action on resilience and climate change adaptation requires coordinated efforts from the highest levels of government to individual households and firms. The Adaptation Principles offer a guide to effective climate change adaptation, containing hands-on guidance to the design, implementation and monitoring of national adaptation strategies. It specifies six guiding principles, which correspond to common policy domains: 
1) Ensuring resilient foundations through rapid and inclusive development; 
2) Facilitating the adaptation of firms and people;
3) Adapting land use and protecting critical public assets and services;
4) Increasing people’s capacity to cope with and recover from shocks; 
5) Anticipating and managing macroeconomic and fiscal risks;
6) Ensuring effective implementation through prioritization and continuous monitoring.
 
While outlining these universal Adaptation Principles, this guide shows that each country needs to tailor these actions to its specific needs and priorities. To guide this process, Adaptation Principles offers concrete and practical tools: Screening questions to identify the most urgent and effective actions, toolboxes illustrating common datasets and methodologies to support decisions, indicators to monitor and evaluate progress, and case studies on how the COVID-19 pandemic influences priorities in taking effective adaptation action.
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Title: Global Mangrove Watch platform
ID: 29343
Created: 01/11/2022 07:00
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Description: The GMW platform uses JAXA’s ALOS data, USGS LandSat data, and ESA’s Sentinel-2 data along with local expertise to track the relative gain and loss of mangroves across the planet. It is the only platform of its kind which accurately maps not only loss and gains in mangroves globally, but also which mangroves are protected, how much carbon they can store in both aboveground biomass and mangrove soil, and presents this information in a way that is relevant for policy. It is free for anyone to use.
 
The latest data is featured in the second edition of the State of the World’s Mangroves report which shows that: 
 - The trend from 1996 to 2020 is a net decline of 5,245 km2 in mangrove extent, globally. There has been a reduction of 3.4% of our planet’s mangroves since 1996, with the biggest loss occurring in Asia (2813 km2 or 4.6%), Africa (648 km2 or 2.2%) and the Pacific (524 km2 or 3.1%).
 
- The most common cause of mangrove loss is clearance and conversion to farmland, agriculture, and/ or urbanization
8,183 km2 of mangroves are considered restorable, of which 2,000km2 are in Indonesia. 
- Full restoration of the entire 8,183km2 could result in an additional 50 billion commercial marine species and benefit the countless communities that rely on fishing for their livelihoods. 
- Restoration of losses since 1996 could safeguard carbon in soil and aboveground biomass equivalent to 1.27gigatons of CO2.
 
The determination to safeguard mangroves is growing at all levels from international to local. With this new update, Global Mangrove Watch provides an accurate regional and national mangrove baseline for encouraging and supporting the development of policies and management plans for the sustainable use and restoration of mangroves.
 
The platform is being continually updated with new datasets and several tools will soon be launched to support policy development and tracking of restoration progress and success.
 
Lammert Hilarides, Senior Technical Officer at Wetlands International said:
 
“When we see the other mapping tools, for everything from tree cover to fishing, and we consider the incredible value mangroves have in building resilience to climate change, creating a platform that accurately tells the global story of mangroves is a no-brainer. The global mangrove watch platform is the combined effort of space agencies, scientific institutions, companies, NGO’s and their local partners which recognizes that while space may be the final frontier, our planet is still our only home and mangroves play a significant role in ensuring the longevity of life on Earth.”
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Title: Department of Geography, Ohio University
ID: 29346
Created: 14/01/2023 07:01
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Description: The Department of Geography at Ohio University is a research-intensive graduate program (MS and MA) that provides an extensive curriculum and research opportunities related to climate change adaptation around the world. Students from around the world and the US undertake field-based research examining adaptation challenges related to institutional, agrarian, and cultural change. Recent students have pursued a range of adaptation related projects in the recent past: - institutional mapping of adaptation actors in the Gambia - assessment of social vulnerability and flood risk in Brazil - innovation in adaptive agriculture in Northern Ghana - changing fuelwood economies in rural Tanzania - gendered access to resources for adaptation in Tanzania - community mapping and assessment of water resource management through an adaptation lens We believe that our current and future research could make a contribution filling gaps and needs related to NAPS in a variety of countries, particularly in Ghana, the Gambia, Tanzania and Kenya. We would welcome the opportunity to draw on feedback from this initiative to refine the focus and planned outcomes of research in ways that can contribute to the NAPS process. Many of our students return to their home countries to provide important scientific, civil society and policy leadership related to climate change adaptation challenges. Their engagement with NAPS research needs from the outset of their graduate programs would better prepare them for making substantive contributions in research and practice.
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Title: Transformational Adaptation in the Context of Coastal Cities
ID: 29345
Created: 08/12/2022 07:01
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Country: United States of America
Target group: Academics and scientists; Policy makers
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Adaptation element: Adaptation planning and practices; Knowledge management; Monitoring and evaluation/M&E; Science and research; Vulnerability assessment
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Description: Coastal settlements, home to more than three billion people and growing rapidly, are highly vulnerable to climate change. Increasingly, there are calls for climate adaptation that goes beyond business-as-usual approaches, transforms socioeconomic systems, and addressformational adaptation, as well as practitioner frameworks and case studies of urban coastal adaptation. The article discusses specific challenges for transformational adaptation and its governance in coastal cities. In doing so, this review cones underlying drivers of
vulnerability. Although calls for transformational adaptation are
growing, greater clarity is needed on what transformation means in
context in order to bridge the gap between theory and practice. This
article reviews the theoretical literature on transtributes to the growing debate about operationalizing the concept of transformational adaptation in the context of coastal cities and offers insights to ensure that transformation processes are inclusive and equitable.
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NWPPrimaryEmail: l.kuhl@northeastern.edu
NWPTypeOfKnowledge: Scientific/peer reviewed publication
NWPCountryItem: United States
NWPWeblink: https://cssh.northeastern.edu/policyschool/
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-environ-012420-045211
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Title: Economics of Climate Adaptation
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Created: 01/10/2022 07:00
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Good practices and lessons learned: ECA has been applied in more than 30 countries world wide. The framework as it, as been extensively used and further developed in San Salvador, Honduras, Ethiopia and Vietnam in close collaboration with local and international stakeholders.
 
Why should I use ECA?
 
LONG-TERM INVESTMENT PLANING
ECA allows extension of investment portfolios, e.g. in a given country or sector. Depending on the volume of the investment, a detailed study for CCA measures might be meaningful.
 
NAPs DEVELOPMENT
Numerous governments are looking into developing their National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). ECA supports countries in formulating detailed NAPs and assists in decision-making processes for further implementation. The level of detail depends on the volume of the project and the prospect of an investment in CCA measures.
 
RISK TRANSFER
In some cases, governments or businesses might be interested in completing already existing CCA measures and looking into potential for risk transfer for low-frequency hazards.
 
STRATEGIC PLANING
ECA provides a prospective assessment of measures that are best adapted to certain conditions in a well-determined area. The level of detail can be high locally or moderate when going beyond the country level.
 
PRE_FEASIBILITY
ECA provides a prospective CCA assessment in order to identify efficient measures and areas most at risk. This approach is embedded in an iterative assessment prospect if deemed meaningful.
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NWPPartner: United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security
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NWPGeographicRegion: Africa; Asia; Caribbean and Central America; South America
NWPGeographicScope: Local; National; Regional; Subregional; Transboundary
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Target group: Academics and scientists; Communities; Policy makers; Practitioners; Private sector
Modified: 05/12/2022 14:12
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NWPReferences: General Information in ECA:
https://ehs.unu.edu/news/news/economics-of-climate-adaptation-eca-the-tool-to-support-countries-and-communities-to-develop-more-ambitious-climate-adaptation-and-mitigation-plans.html
 
Press release about ECA in Honduras:
https://reliefweb.int/report/honduras/eca-studies-pave-way-combating-flooding-honduras
https://reliefweb.int/report/honduras/honduras-etiop-y-vietnam-hacen-frente-al-cambio-clim-tico-con-la-ayuda-de-la (in Spanish)
 
Infographics on ECA:
https://i.unu.edu/media/ehs.unu.edu/attachment/23351/ECA_infographic_LOGO.png
Adaptation element: Adaptation planning and practices; Capacity building; Climate scenarios; Communication and outreach/awareness; Financial support; Impact assessment; Science and research; Socio-economic data and information; Stakeholder involvement; Technology support; Vulnerability assessment
Adaptation sector/theme: Water resources; Ecosystem-based adaptation; Community-based adaptation; Adaptation finance; Disaster risk reduction; Urban resilience
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Description: What is the Economics of Climate Adaptation (ECA)?
 
The approach taken under the Economics of Climate Adaptation (ECA) framework provides decision makers with information about potential climate-related damage to their environment, economies and societies. It can foster comprehensive adaptation strategies by analysing and proposing a variety of specific adaptation measures in a systematic way. Well targeted, early investments to improve climate resilience are likely to be less cost intensive and more effective than complex post-disaster relief efforts, both locally and on an aggregated global scale.
ECA addresses the following key questions to develop an effective climate adaptation strategy:
 
1) What is the potential climate-related damage over the coming decades?
2) How much of that damage can be averted, using what type of adaptation measures?
3) What investments will be required to fund those measures – and will the benefits of these investments outweigh the costs?
 
What does ECA provide?
 
Powered by CLIMADA, an open-source modelling platform, the ECA framework helps promoting resilience through the assessment of weather and climate risks and the integration of appropriate climate change adaptation (CCA) measures. More particularly, it supports governments, businesses and individuals with the following:
 
1) CLIMATE RISK IDENTIFICATION
Conduct an identification of climate risk in a defined region (e.g. urban area), identify areas and people at risk, spanning all significant climate hazards and the full range of possible impacts for different sectors
2) CLIMATE RISK QUANTIFICATION
Calculate the expected damage across multiple climate and economic scenarios
3) IDENTIFICATION AND PRIORITIZATION OF CCA MEASURES
Determine strategies, including a portfolio of specific measures with detailed cost-benefit assessment
4) ENABLING MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATION
Ensure local involvement in order to create a long-term and transparent adaptation strategy
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