Mainstreaming processes for climate change adaptation: collection of best practices
This collection of best practices looks at successful mainstreaming efforts to provide policy makers and planners in the Pacific with ideas and lessons learned. The examples, which come from different regions and sectors including the Pacific, are not only illustrating adaptation to climate change. Many examples originate from other related mainstreaming efforts like disaster risk management or environmental mainstreaming. Interestingly, one major obstacle of mainstreaming has hardly been discussed in the literature reviewed, that is, so called âmainstreaming fatigueâ. This phenomenon describes the excessive demands placed on policy makers and development planners to take more and more issues into account which, at first glance, are unrelated to the project goal. Common issues to be mainstreamed include gender, HIV/AIDS, conflict, environment and disaster risk reduction. The pressure to integrate progressively more of these important topics has continued, but it is obvious that people will undertake mainstreaming only if they are convinced that there will be an advantage in the long run. This can be an economic calculation or a demonstration that neglecting climate change might jeopardize the success of the project. The additional workload connected with the mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change can be reduced if effective and easy-to-use tools are available, which minimize the additional efforts.
Mainstreaming processes for climate change adaptation: collection of best practices.pdf
