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Empowering Decision Makers: Practical Steps for Adaptation Policies

Learn how to engage decision/policy makers effectively in climate adaptation with practical steps and ideas from ENDA Energy, Environment, and Development Programme. Overcome barriers, understand concerns, and create alternatives for sustainable development. Key tips include knowing your audience, being respectful and flexible, and emphasizing the positive aspects of climate adaptation.

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Empowering Decision Makers: Practical Steps for Adaptation Policies

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  1. Community level adaptation for policy makers Some practical steps and ideas ENDA Energy, Environment and Development Programme

  2. Typology of decision/policy maker • Livelihood practitioner e.g. farmer/fisher • Village chief/traditional authority/religious leader • Local government • National government and policy making bodies • International/supranational ENDA Energy, Environment and Development Programme

  3. Barriers to engaging decision/policy makers • Low understanding of climate issues/lack of information • Time in which to change perceptions /convince the need for change/obtain enabling permissions, legitimacy ENDA Energy, Environment and Development Programme

  4. Concerns of local decision makers/enablers • Responding to a politically influenced agenda • Retaining credibility • Control ENDA Energy, Environment and Development Programme

  5. Climate impacts Decision and policy-making remoteness from real life experience of CC impacts Livelihood practitioner Village elders/ traditional authority Religious leader Local government National government ENDA Energy, Environment and Development Programme

  6. Adaptation/development - some old ideas • Amartya Sen - development as the creation of choice and underdevelopment as having no choice or no say in what happens • Adaptation is a social response to human and environmental vulnerability. Most vulnerability has not been caused by climate change, but climate change has become an added factor that is exacerbating vulnerability. • Adaptation is not innovative, the way of thinking is

  7. Upper Zambezi Valley - major mode of productive activity • Cultivation • Livestock – cattle • Fishing • Reed products and crafts ENDA Energy, Environment and Development Programme

  8. Major concerns among producers • Lack of working capital • Undeveloped markets • Reducing productivity (partly due to drought/flood and partly due to the unreliability of the weather and new threats from weather events • Land tenure/ownership issues • Out-migration of ‘useful’ people • In-migration of ‘useless’ people from elsewhere - crime, guns and refugees ENDA Energy, Environment and Development Programme

  9. Adaptation/development - some old ideas • Adaptation/development is about the creation of alternatives and choices. • Most vulnerability has not been caused by climate change, but climate change has become an added factor that is exacerbating vulnerability. • Adaptation is not innovative, the way of thinking is • Adaptation is a positive social response to human and environmental vulnerability. Creates insurance policies.

  10. Some key tips • Know your decision maker, the right person • Know your product • Be respectful • Be flexible • Have empathy • Send someone who is experienced at talking with decision makers • Never promise more than can be achieved • Be positive about climate adaptation – threats and opportunities

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