Adaptation Strategies
All IW projects should facilitate the inclusion of appropriate strategies to adapt to climate change within the project activities, especially demonstration actions and to ensure that strategies to assist with the sustainability of activities address potential climate change issues. The adaptation strategies should also be a constitutive element of SAP and should be integrated into it.
As the the UNECE "Guidance on Water and Adaptation to Climate Change" states, "...the adaptation strategies and measures should be based on the results of vulnerability assessments as well as on development objectives, stakeholder considerations and the resources available. If little or no information is available for structured vulnerability assessments, adaptation should be based on available general information combined with expert and local knowledge. Effective adaptation strategies are a mix of structural and non-structural, regulatory and economic instruments, and education and awareness-raising measures to tackle short-, medium- and long-term impacts of climate change. Given the uncertainty associated with climate change, win-win, no regret and low regret measures should be chosen as a priority."
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The Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project has put together this guide as a response to the need from PACC-participating countries to integrate climate change risks into their national and sector strategies and plans, and budgetary processes. The recommended approach combines standard policy cycles commonly used in the Pacific with analytical inputs from the climate risk management (CRM) framework. This forms a seven-phase process representing a broad outline of how to mainstream climate risk into development planning and policy processes, with analytical inputs, outputs and key decisions described for each step. Steps include: preparatory activities; situation analysis; problem analysis; solution analysis; design of the outputs; implementation, monitoring and evaluation; and review. The guide operates at two levels: strategic level mainstreaming, and "on the ground" level mainstreaming. The process is illustrated with detailed case studies drawn from the region. SPREP and UNDP: Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific: A Practical Guide, 2013 (Ref. Doc. 52) |
See Documents 16, 32, 33, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, and 52 for more information.
