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Presentation held by Fiona Percy, Care International, at the learning event the Community Based Adaptation and Resilience in East and Southern Africa’s Drylands, held in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia by Care International Adaptation Learning Program for Africa (ALP), The CGIAR research program on Climate change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and African Insect Science for Food and Health (ICIPE)TRANSCRIPT
Community Based Adaptation and Resilience in East and Southern Africa’s Drylands
Adaptation Learning Programme in Africa, ALP
Addis Ababa 1-4th September 2014Fiona Percy
grazing
What do we find in the drylands?
Arid lands livestock
drought pastoralists
Poor roads/services
Trade/
enterprise
migration
Semi-arid
farming
Scarce water resources
conflict
Mobile phones
recurrentcrisis
Degraded land
hot
Highlyvulnerable
Land grabs
mobility
etc.
People are at the centre
Pastoralists, farmers, entrepreneurs, traders – their aspirations, agency and livelihoods
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The people who feel the impacts of climate change most :
• depend on climate sensitive, natural resource based livelihoods – which are rapidly changing
• live in areas exposed to climate risks – droughts, floods• are marginalised and vulnerable – o limited agency - voice, access or control over decisions that
affect them o face multiple challenges and causes of vulnerabilityo Poor, isolated communitieso Pervasive gender inequalities
• Often excluded from ‘modern’ developments, which ignores or undermines or conflicts with the value of their knowledge and resources they use
Climate change worsens existing risksApril 8, 2023
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Resilience
Different interpretations by different disciplines:
(IPCC, UNISDR, DFID, FAO etc)• bouncing back from shocks• maintaining function of a system in spite of a
disturbance • long term resilient development pathways• secure livelihoods, absorbing and adapting to
shocks, managing growing risks, addressing underlying causes of vulnerability, transforming lives in response to new hazards and opportunities.
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Resilience - many questions:
• Whose resilience? To what? • What is resilience in a changing and uncertain
context? • Uncertain climate, economy, governance, security….
• Bouncing back - to chronic poverty, inequality? • Covering up differences in and causes of
vulnerability?• Who is responsible for vulnerability in drylands
and who is responsible for realising resilience? • How does climate change affect resilience?
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Climate change impacts on resilience
• Is happening now, changing variability, seasonal patterns, intense / extreme events, unpredicted, volatile and previously unknown weather, CC is not going away
• New normal of constant change, volatility & uncertainty Transformation to new situations and livelihoods, access to new development opportunities?
• Large scale of challenge, but localised impacts: Vulnerable people need to adapt themselves
• Vulnerabilities differ across and among communities, gender and wealth groups, but all have complementary capacities to respond
• The science and access to information is becoming a valuable resource - but a long way to go
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Adaptive capacity has some answers
The ability to constantly adjust livelihood and risk
management strategies in response to new and changing
circumstances (IPCC)In an uncertain climate, adaptive capacity is an increasingly critical aspect of resilience April 8, 2023
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Community Based Adaptation?
Evolving approach supporting climate vulnerable communities to:
• analyse their vulnerabilities, risks and capacities
• strengthen their adaptive capacity • decide on and engage in actions that are
sustainable, climate resilient and responsive to local realities, climate information & changing risks.
• make choices in an uncertain climate April 8, 2023
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CBA = Multi-level action with a community focus
• Multi- stakeholder, sector and level, not only in communities.
• Anticipation of regular and new shocks requires:• thoughtful and joined up responses, • working with communities knowledge and aspirations.
• Local and national actors support with:
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► Capacity building ► Systems and services ► Information ► Technology► Policies ► Finance► Programmes
A CBA Framework
WWW.CARECLIMATECHANGE.ORG
COMMUNITY-BASED
ADAPTATION
Local adaptive & organisational capacity
Addressing underlying causes of
vulnerability
Disaster risk reduction
Climate-resilient
livelihoods
Influencing enabling policy environment
Climate change knowledge
Risk and uncertainty
CBA and Resilience - Combining approaches?
• Integrate humanitarian, DRR, social protection, climate change adaptation, natural resource management, good governance and sustainable development actions, in all sectors – informed by Climate Change.
• Empower dryland communities and actors to innovate, work collaboratively with others, access and control resources and information, make informed and flexible decisions for adaptation and moving out of poverty in the face of worsening climate shocks and uncertainties.
• Invest in long term coordinated multi-stakeholder responses to underlying causes of vulnerability, safety nets, early warning, enabling policy for inclusion and equity.
SOUNDS GREAT – yes, but realistically how do we do this?April 8, 2023
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We have 4 days to combine our knowledge and generate answers to:
• How / why vulnerabilities and opportunities are changing with the climate?
• What does it take to achieve resilience for everyone in a changing climate? Is that enough?
• Drivers and barriers to change & transformation, synergies and trade offs involved?
• The added value can CBA bring to achieving resilience in dryland communities?
• Working together, coordinating across silos - an integrated and coherent approach?
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Thank you
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