Understanding vulnerability to climate change within communities
I am collating and reviewing community level participatory tools to understand vulnerability to climate change and identify resilience strategies. These are part of my preparatory work for a forthcoming trip to Timor Leste in which I shall be working at the community level to try to unpack how different social groups (by age, gender, livelihoods, socio-economic groups and others) are vulnerable to variations in the climate. The focus will be on whether/ how they are coping, adapting and identifying policies and interventions to try to support them.
As a start, here are four frameworks and tools :
CARE Climate Vulnerability and Community Adaptation Assessment
Mercy Corp’s Resilience Approach
Oxfam’s Participatory Capacity and Vulnerability Analysis
Tearfund’s Climate Change and Environmental Degradation Risk and Adaptation Assessment (CEDRA)
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