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This program focuses on mainstreaming adaptive capacity within community-based adaptation initiatives. Adaptive capacity refers to the ability of individuals and communities to make necessary changes in their lives and livelihoods in response to environmental challenges. Key aspects include leveraging knowledge diversity, enhancing social network affiliations, ensuring representation in decision-making, and promoting institutional responsiveness. The program emphasizes process measures such as transparency, accountability, timely decision-making, and effective resource delivery, ultimately aiming for better livelihood outcomes and resilience in the face of climate change.
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Adaptive ProgrammesTowards mainstreaming community-based adaptation
Adaptive capacity: ability to make changes to lives and livelihoods Knowledge – diversity of, access to and ability to use available information Affiliation – extent, strength and position within social networks Representation - proximity to and control over change leaders Responsiveness - institutional reaction to and accountability to demands.
Mainstreaming adaptive capacity into programme work Outcomes
Process measures? • Capacity • Representation in decision making processes (all sides); • Transparency of representatives’ interests and their accountability (all sides); • Understanding of overall process and decision making steps (all sides); • Planning • Transparency of decision steps and decisions reached; • Representation in decision steps; • Responsiveness of decisions to information (including Outcomes monitoring); • Complexity and attention to detail of decisions; • Timeliness/speed decisions reached; • Delivery • Responsiveness of resources secured to Planning decisions; • Transparency and inclusion in delivery; • Timeliness/speed and quality of delivery; • Outcomes • Measures of Adaptive Capacity; • Livelihood Outcomes; • Effectiveness of delivery – ‘Ask Them’; • Information and Monitoring • Complexity, diversity and tailoring of information to Planning; • Complexity, diversity and tailoring of Outcomes Monitoring to Planning; • Timeliness of input into Planning;