Community-based Adaptation : Lessons from a Grant Competition

What do local communities perceive as the key problems and challenges for adaptation to climate change? Lessons are identified from a major global grant competition, the Development Marketplace, focused on adaptation to climate change. Proposals developed by non-governmental actors at the local leve...

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Main Authors: Heltberg, Rasmus, Gitay, Habiba, Prabhu, Radhika G.
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor and Francis 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13268
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spelling okr-10986-132682021-04-23T14:03:07Z Community-based Adaptation : Lessons from a Grant Competition Heltberg, Rasmus Gitay, Habiba Prabhu, Radhika G. adaptation climate change community-based adaptation resilience stakeholder participation vulnerability What do local communities perceive as the key problems and challenges for adaptation to climate change? Lessons are identified from a major global grant competition, the Development Marketplace, focused on adaptation to climate change. Proposals developed by non-governmental actors at the local level were informed by deep concerns that on-going climate change and its impacts undermine development and exacerbate poverty, migration and food insecurity. Drought and floods were the most commonly identified climate risks. Adaptation proposals simultaneously addressed local poverty and climate change challenges, and offered a wide range of approaches to render local development more resilient to current climate variability. The findings have important implications for the design of support to community-based adaptation, which should exploit its strong local grounding and synergies with development; help connect local initiatives to higher levels; and use complementary approaches to address policy issues. 2013-04-25T15:14:11Z 2013-04-25T15:14:11Z 2011-08-11 Journal Article Climate Policy 1469-3062 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13268 en_US Climate Policy;12(2) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank Taylor and Francis Journal Article
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topic adaptation
climate change
community-based adaptation
resilience
stakeholder participation
vulnerability
spellingShingle adaptation
climate change
community-based adaptation
resilience
stakeholder participation
vulnerability
Heltberg, Rasmus
Gitay, Habiba
Prabhu, Radhika G.
Community-based Adaptation : Lessons from a Grant Competition
relation Climate Policy;12(2)
description What do local communities perceive as the key problems and challenges for adaptation to climate change? Lessons are identified from a major global grant competition, the Development Marketplace, focused on adaptation to climate change. Proposals developed by non-governmental actors at the local level were informed by deep concerns that on-going climate change and its impacts undermine development and exacerbate poverty, migration and food insecurity. Drought and floods were the most commonly identified climate risks. Adaptation proposals simultaneously addressed local poverty and climate change challenges, and offered a wide range of approaches to render local development more resilient to current climate variability. The findings have important implications for the design of support to community-based adaptation, which should exploit its strong local grounding and synergies with development; help connect local initiatives to higher levels; and use complementary approaches to address policy issues.
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author Heltberg, Rasmus
Gitay, Habiba
Prabhu, Radhika G.
author_facet Heltberg, Rasmus
Gitay, Habiba
Prabhu, Radhika G.
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title Community-based Adaptation : Lessons from a Grant Competition
title_short Community-based Adaptation : Lessons from a Grant Competition
title_full Community-based Adaptation : Lessons from a Grant Competition
title_fullStr Community-based Adaptation : Lessons from a Grant Competition
title_full_unstemmed Community-based Adaptation : Lessons from a Grant Competition
title_sort community-based adaptation : lessons from a grant competition
publisher Taylor and Francis
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