1. Tools & Processes for Adaptation
Anne Hammill

2. Geneva Meeting
April 11-12, “Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along” Napoleon Hill

3. Sharing Climate Adaptation Tools: Improving decision-making for development
Aim of the meeting:
To improve decision-making at all scales to reduce risks and avail opportunities associated with climate variability and change
Objectives:
Share different screening tools
Discuss databases and other shared sources of climate information for screening tools
Identify options for extending, improving and linking

4. Examples Tools Methodologies / Processes Information sources
ADAPT (sensitivity analysis for Bank projects, flagging, advice)
CRiSTAL (framework for community engagement; assess project impact on adaptive capacity; prompt thinking on adjustments)
Adaptation Wizard (basic understanding of CC; economic analysis of adaptation options and scenarios)
Country Database (collate info from NAPAs, NC, studies, UNDP country information to develop adaptation proposals)
Methodologies / Processes
DGIS – Climate Quick Scans
Red Cross – Preparedness for Climate Change
USAID – Climate Change Adaptation Guidance Manual
IDS / DFID – Opportunities and Risks of Climate Change and Disasters (ORCHID)
Information sources
PRECIS - Providing Regional Climates for Impact Studies (UK Met OFfice)
Vulnerability mapping and impact assessment
SERVIR Climate Change Mapping Tool (USAID et al)
CAIT - Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (WRI)

5. Some conclusions Cross-referencing and collaboration is occuring
Inefficient replication limited – targeting particular niche
Different users; purposes (project design, portfolio evaluation); aims (evaluate risk; evaluate adaptive capacity); scales
Willingness to share tools and approaches – but early days
Broadly common approach – see climate-related impacts as an additional stressor
Gap between grassroots and national / international (traditional leaders, local government, private sector?)
Awareness-raising value
Opportunities associated with climate change??
Relevant to international processes:
G8 Gleneagles Plan of Action
OECD
UNFCCC Nairobi Work Programme on Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation to Climate Change

6. Community-based Risk Screening – Adaptation & Livelihoods
CRiSTAL
Community-based Risk Screening – Adaptation & Livelihoods

7. CRiSTAL: Why? Rationale
Community-level projects may improve adaptive capacity or constrain it
Purpose
Help users to systematically understand the links between livelihoods and climate
Enable users to assess a project’s impact on community-level adaptive capacity
Assist users in making project adjustments to improve its impact on adaptive capacity

8. CRiSTAL: Who? How? Community-level project designers and managers
User
Community-level project designers and managers
Approach
Draw on Environmental Impact Assessment model
Use SL Framework to focus on elements of coping / adaptive capacity at local level
Logical, user-friendly process
Offer in multiple formats and as part of a suite of tools

9. CRiSTAL’s Structure 4 Framing Questions in 2 Modules
M1: Synthesizing info on climate and livelihoods
Q1: What is the climate context
Impacts of climate change?
Current hazards
Impacts of hazards
Coping strategies
Q2: What is livelihood context?
Resources?
How affected by hazards?
How important to coping?
M2: Planning and managing projects for adaptation
Q3: What are impacts of project activities on livelihood resources that are…
Vulnerable to climate risks?
Important to coping?
Q4: How can project activities be adjusted to reduce vulnerability and enhance adaptive capacity?
Synergies and barriers