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Adaptation Practice
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Type of organization
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Regional focus
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Sector
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Adaptation delivery activity
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Description
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Vulnerability to Climate Change: Adaptation Strategies and Layers of Resilience (ICRISAT) | Non-Governmental
| Asia-Pacific
Least Developed Countries
| Food security, agriculture, forestry and fisheries
| Capacity building
Pilot adaptation programmes/projects
| Provides in-depth research on climate variability, adaptation-coping strategies and institutional capacity in SAT focusing on the rural poor.
Project Documents
Inception report
Year 2 Review
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Water and Adaptation Intervention in Central and West Asia (ADB) | Intergovernmental
| Asia-Pacific
Least Developed Countries
| Other
Water resources
Science, assessment, monitoring and early warning
Food security, agriculture, forestry and fisheries
| Communication and awareness raising
Capacity building
Knowledge management
Other
| Develops knowledge and models on potential climate change impacts in the Amu Darya and Syr Darya river basins. Conducts cross-scale risk assessments and risk management plans incorporating adaptation considerations. |
Water and Sanitation Sector Responses to Climate Change Impact in Yunnan Province of China and Viet Nam (WB) | Intergovernmental
Private
| Asia-Pacific
| Water resources
| Other
| Conducts technical assessments on climate change potential, risk, vulnerabilities and impacts of two cities. Provides mitigation and adaptation recommendations and outreaches programmes to raise awareness of the need to, and benefits of, adaptation and associated costs.
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Water Banks in Mexico (CONAGUA) | Governmental
| Caribbean and Central America
| Water resources
Other
| Pilot adaptation programmes/projects
Knowledge management
Financial support
| Provides access to information for appropriate decision making, integrated free consultancy regarding transmission of rights, guidance on technical and hydrological characteristics.
Reports
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Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean Activities
(CATHALAC)
| Academic
| South America
| Science, assessment, monitoring and early warning
Water resources
| Education
Training
Communication and awareness raising
| Training and education on regional water management.
Example outputs
PortalGIS: Mesoamerica and the Caribbean |
Water Funds (FEMSA Foundation; TNC; Inter-American Development Bank) | Governmental
Intergovernmental
Non-Governmental
Private
| Caribbean and Central America
| Water resources
| Financial support
Capacity building
Knowledge management
| Innovative mechanism of large-scale conservation based on the payment for environmental services in which the investments of downstream users are used to preserve water source with the aim to create and capitalize at least 32 funds in Latin American and Caribbean countries.
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weADAPT Collaborating group on climate adaptation | Non-Governmental
| All regions
| Education and training
| Knowledge management
| Engaging adaptation professionals into developing a common knowledge base for adaptation. |
Wetlands International Activities
| Non-Governmental
| All regions
| Science, assessment, monitoring and early warning
Water resources
| Education
| Integrating wetlands conservation and restoration into adaptation.
Sample leaflet
Understanding linkages between mangrove forests and livelihoods |
World Agroforestry Centre Activities
| Non-Governmental
| All regions
| Science, assessment, monitoring and early warning
Food security, agriculture, forestry and fisheries
| Knowledge management
Training
Pilot adaptation programmes/projects
Education
Communication and awareness raising
| Steering agroforestry from capacity-building and knowledge exchange through to implementation at national and community levels.
Example projects
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World Bank Activities
| Intergovernmental
| All regions
| Education and training
Science, assessment, monitoring and early warning
| Education
Financial support
| Project and analytical work, development of tools for climate data dissemination and mapping as well as screening for climate risk to projects, and pilot insurance programs for protection against weather climate. Outputs include: screening tool 'ADAPT', guidance booklets and knowledge products with a regional focus. Project funding.
Funding
Consultations
Example Publications
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World Bank's Project Portfolio | Intergovernmental
| All regions
| Other
| Financial support
Pilot adaptation programmes/projects
| Database on World Bank lending projects since 1947, including adaptation. |
World Conservation Union Activities
(IUCN) | Non-Governmental
| Africa and the Arab States
| Science, assessment, monitoring and early warning
Water resources
Terrestrial ecosystems
| Pilot adaptation programmes/projects
| Building the capacity of natural ecosystems to adapt to climate change (coral reefs, river basins).
Example publication
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World Food Programme Activities
(WFP)
| Intergovernmental
| All regions
| Science, assessment, monitoring and early warning
Food security, agriculture, forestry and fisheries
| Capacity building
Pilot adaptation programmes/projects
| Enabling development, saving lives in refugee crises and other emergencies, improving nutrition and quality of life of world's most vulnerable people. Assisting governments in putting in place and in strengthening early-warning and emergency preparedness systems at the national and regional level. |
World Health Organization Activities
(WHO) | Intergovernmental
| All regions
| Human health
| Capacity building
Education
Pilot adaptation programmes/projects
| Collaborating with countries and agencies inside and outside of the UN system, including governments and civil society to develop capacity to assess and respond to health risks from climate change. Providing close relationships to the health sector within Member States through regional and national offices. Providing a normative framework of action for national governments and for WHO to address linkages between health and climate change. Organized ten inter-regional workshops on Human Health Impacts from Climate Variability and Climate Change between 2000 and 2008, in collaboration with WMO and UNEP. Leading the health component of the MDG-Fund projects on climate change adaptation (Jordan and China). Developing, in partnership with UNDP, developing a project on Piloting Climate Change Adaptation to Protect Human Health under a changing and more variable climate. Developing a global strategy that outlines the overarching framework for the international response to protect health from climate change.
Example projects
Publications
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World Meteorological Organization Activities
(WMO) | Intergovernmental
| All regions
| Education and training
| Education
| Information on the state and behaviour of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, the climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources. Weather forecasts and warning.
Example outputs
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World Resources Institute - Vulnerability & Adaptation database | Non-Governmental
| All regions
| Education and training
| Pilot adaptation programmes/projects
| 135 examples of adaptation projects sorted according to various geographical and procedural criteria.
Synthesis publication
Weathering the Storm: Options for Framing Adaptation and Development
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World Tourism Organization Activities
(UNWTO)
| Intergovernmental
| All regions
| Education and training
Tourism
| Education
Communication and awareness raising
| Carrying out extensive research, capacity building and technical assistance activities, advocating the sustainable development of tourism in international and national policy processes, with climate change dealt with as a priority issue.
Outputs
Tourism and Climate Exchange
Example Publications
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World Wildlife Fund International Activities
(WWF) | Non-Governmental
| All regions
| Education and training
Water resources
| Knowledge management
Training
Pilot adaptation programmes/projects
| Developing and implementing resistance projects with stakeholder groups, including local communities, national, regional and local government agencies, WWF national organisations and other local conservation and research groups (universities, climate institutes, ecologists, conservation biologists, hydrologists and others).
Example publications
Case Studies and Publications
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WorldFish Center - Enhancing Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change Impacts through well-managed Water Use for Aquaculture integrated with small-scaled Irrigation in the Chinyanja Triangle in Africa | Governmental
| Africa and the Arab States
Least Developed Countries
| Food security, agriculture, forestry and fisheries
| Risk/vulnerability mapping
Other
| Develops practices and expands knowledge on the integration of water management and aquaculture concerns into food security strategies with the aim of reducing the impact of climate change on vulnerable households. |
Zambezi River Basin Initiative (SADC) | Governmental
| Africa and the Arab States
Least Developed Countries
| Other
| Capacity building
Other
| Builds capacity in local Red Cross Branches to address risk reduction, resilience and livelihood stability along the Zambezi River.
Brochures
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Zambezi Valley Development Initiative | Non-Governmental
| Africa and the Arab States
| Education and training
Food security, agriculture, forestry and fisheries
Water resources
| Knowledge management
Communication and awareness raising
| Develeping an indigeneous knowledge bank and consulting on sustainable development in the region for self-help projects. Identifying and assessing human (social) and ecological vulnerability impacted by increasing climate dynamics, identifying and planning strategic action to adapt to the threats posed by this vulnerability. Sectoral focus on food security, energy scarcity and sustainable development.
Projects
Climate vulnerability and adaptation in the Upper Zambezi
Valley – ‘Lyambai Vulnerability and Adaptation’ (LYVA) project
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