1. Integrating ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation into development planning Governance barriers and opportunities Anna T, Tahia D, Helen J, and Nadia B March 2011

3. Key question: is there a need to better integrate the governance of development, climate adaptation and ecosystems; and if so, what are the barriers and opportunities?

4. Key concepts: ecosystem services; climate as one of multiple drivers of change; governance system; integration

6. Emerging field of adaptation as space to think again about integrating poverty, ecosystems and development

7. Seek to ground some of the debates around “EbA” or ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation, in the real experiences of developing countries

10. Workshop provided a space for information sharing and realisations about how adaptation fits into ongoing work – need for a holistic approach

11. Recommendations included in Belize Environmental Outlook report for gov. depts.

13. When actors together see the inter-connections between poverty, development, ecosystems,and adaptation it:

14. makes clear the need for working together and coordinate actions, and

17. Refining the questions and reviewing relevant literature

18. Preparing country background documents to contextualise and identify relevant SHs

19. Conducting interviews in each of the 3 case study countries

20. Convening workshops

21. Getting feedback on country reports

22. Reflecting on findings together

23. Developing outputs relevant to specific SHs

24. Follow up: DfID; SHs in 3 countries; WWF – SEI