ALM UNDP

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Climate change is having a significant impact on water availability, quality, accessibility and demand in many contexts. These impacts are, in turn, affecting many other sectors such as agriculture, energy and health, seriously undermining development. The poorest people, who often live in the most fragile environments and are especially reliant on water- and climate-sensitive sectors, are highly vulnerable to climatic impacts. It is the poor who are being hit first and hardest.

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This Toolkit is designed to guide users through the process of developing and implementing Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) projects. It is organised around the following, simplified stages in the project cycle: analysis, design and implementation. It also provides guidance on information & knowledge management, including monitoring & evaluation.

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The CARE Toolkit for Integrating Climate Change into Development Projects provides practical assistance for adapting design, implementation, monitoring & evaluation to the challenges posed by climate change. Its step-by-step structure helps users design climate-resilient interventions with sustainable impacts. The Toolkit also includes simple checklists to ensure that activities don't inadvertently increase people's vulnerability to climate change. It provides guidelines and recommended tools for all stages of the project cycle, as well as practical examples.

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Introduction Unquestionably, a wealth of experience and expertise exists within governments and organizations; however the majority of this knowledge is never documented, compiled, nor shared. Filling this knowledge gap is a key objective of the International Recovery Platform and the Guidance Notes on Recovery: Climate Change, along with its companion booklets, are an initial attempt to begin building a knowledge base on disaster recovery.

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The Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance has launched the consultation version of the ACCRA adaptive capacity framework! ACCRA is an exciting and ambitious consortium working to improve our understanding of adaptive capacity. We have developed an innovative adaptive capacity framework which we are consulting on, and we are currently using it as a conceptual tool for research on existing Disaster Risk Reduction, Social Protection and Livelihoods programme interventions in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique.

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Overview

Many countries are increasingly vulnerable to destructive weather events - floods, droughts, windstorms, or other parameters. The vulnerability is driven in part by climate but also by countries’ sensitivity to events exacerbated by past practices, socioeconomic conditions, or legacy issues.

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The toolkit is a step-by-step guide on how to develop adaptation initiatives in developing countries. The guide helps to understand how to differentiate between a climate change “adaptation” and a traditional development initiative, and what key elements must be considered when developing and designing an adaptation initiative.

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CRiSTAL is a decision support tool developed jointly by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Stockholm Environment Institute in Boston (SEI-US) and the Swiss Foundation for Development and International Cooperation (Intercooperation).

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Many countries in the European Region experienced a growing number of episodes of extreme weather events, often displaying distinctive features of disasters, associated with a significant burden of premature deaths, diseases and forced displacement of communities. Because of this the linkage between extreme weather events and population health, survival and well being has been increasingly recognized by the scientific and decision-making communities.