Introduction to ACCRA Oct 2011
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Climate change adaptation is important to address the complex challenges it poses for development in Africa. Agricultural production and food security on the continent will likely be severely compromised by climate change, with crop yields projected to fall substantially. ACCRA seeks to understand how existing social protection, livelihood and disaster risk reduction projects build adaptive capacity, and influence actors to improve climate adaptation. The research is being conducted in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique to provide evidence to support vulnerable communities and inform humanitarian and development work.
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Introduction to ACCRA Oct 2011
- 4. ‘ The property of a system to adjust its characteristics or behaviour, in order to expand its coping range under existing climate variability, or future climate conditions.’ (UNDP, 2005) ‘ The potential of individuals, communities, and societies to be actively involved in the processes of change, in order to minimize negative impacts and maximize any benefits from changes in the climate.’ Oxfam GB Adaptive capacity
- 5. Summary of Climate Change Adaptation “ Actions that people and institutions make in anticipation of, or in response to, a changing climate. This includes changes to the things they do, and/or the way that they do them.” (Oxfam:PGN 2009) Examples of generic measures to reduce vulnerability: Promotion of minimum wage to reduce vulnerability. Cash transfers and social insurance to contribute to poverty reduction and reduce vulnerability. Livelihoods diversification to spread risk. Increased power in markets to increase income. Reforestation to protect embankments, reduce local temperatures, and provide food and fodder in times of scarcity. Examples of measures for specific impacts: Increased heat: Drought resistant crops. Increased risk of floods: district level contingency plans; PCVA, Early Warning Systems; stockpiling. Decreased and unpredictable rain: appropriate forecasts, crop diversification, farming techniques that reduce crop water needs. Working at community level and with national institutions Measures to generically reduce vulnerability and specific measures for total risks: Livelihoods and agriculture Social Protection DRR Natural resource management
- 7. ACCRA
- 10. What ACCRA is doing Capacity building/advocacy Research and learning Support poor communities’ ability to adapt to adapt to climate hazards, variability and change. Evidence-based action by humanitarian and development actors: Donors, NGOs, Governments
Editor's Notes
- For poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, climate change adds another layer of complexity to already existing development challenges, such as high levels of poverty and inequality, rapid population growth, underdeveloped financial markets and weak governance systems. Climate change is predicted to exacerbate these developmental challenges, ‘as more floods, more droughts, more strong storms, and more heat waves makes development policy and practice more complicated’ (World Bank, 2010).
- ACCRA sees both of these as important – emphasis on people, and on the system. Ability of a system to move from a current state, to that of a ‘ climate smart’ system in light of future environment and hazards
- CCA = Actions that people and institutions make in anticipation of, or in response to, a changing climate. This includes changes to the things they do, and/or the way that they do them.
- It’s nothing revolutionary and completely new but to look at current livelihoods and project interventions through a different lens: forward looking, move away from a ‘business-as usual’ approach to development, long-term. CCA cannot be characterised as a single approach, and instead needs to be seen as incorporating a number of different approaches. The various elements of DRR, SP and LH may go a long way towards contributing to an individual’s capacity to adapt to a changing climate.
- ACCRA is a consortium of Save the Children, World Vision International, CARE, the Overseas Development Institute and Oxfam. We work in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Uganda.
- ACCRA has 4 key objectives – summarised in this slide (speak through them in more detail when slide is up): To understand how existing social protection, livelihoods and disaster risk reduction projects by ACCRA members build adaptive capacity to climate change in beneficiaries, and how these approaches can be strengthened. To use the findings to influence donors, development partners and civil society to improve future planning/action. To work together with local and national governments to build capacity to implement interventions which can build communities ’ adaptive capacity. To encourage learning across countries and disciplines.
- RESEARCH To understand how existing social protection, livelihoods and disaster risk reduction projects by ACCRA members build adaptive capacity to climate change in beneficiaries , and how these approaches can be strengthened. ADVOCACY to use the findings to influence donors, development partners and civil society to improve future planning/action . CAPACITY BUILDING to work together with local and national governments to build capacity to implement interventions which can build communities ’ adaptive capacity. IMPORTANT to encourage learning across countries and disciplines. ULTIMATE AIM: to improve people ’ s lives.
- LOTS OF PROGRESS SO FAR. Significant interest in all 3 countries.
- Looking to get more funding – increase government engagement further.
- PRACTICAL research – aims to see what we’re doing that works – and where we could improve it.
- We realise that it is vital to work with governments – from the beginning. We don’t want to turn up in 18 months with research findings out of the blue.
- The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report highlights the unequivocal evidence that the world’s climate system is warming. Profound impacts are already being felt by poor people in sub-Saharan Africa, where livelihoods based on agriculture and livestock are threatened by unpredictable seasons, rising temperatures, and increases in the frequency and severity of climate-related hazards.
- We’d love you to be involved.