NEGOTIATIONS
FOCUS
PROCESS
KEY STEPS
|
|
Your location: Home > Adaptation > Nairobi Work Programme > Knowledge Resources and Publications |
|
Compendium on methods and tools to evaluate impacts of, and vulnerability and adaptation to, climate
change
|
|
Livelihood Sensitivity Exercise
|
|
Description
|
Livelihood sensitivity mapping exercise is a means of integrating existing knowledge of climate
vulnerability with livelihood analysis. It commonly involves stakeholder participation.
Initially the exercise can be conducted in the context of rapid workshop breakout group, but
eventually can be formalized via the inclusion of expert analysis, impact models, or historical
analogues: The exercise involves developing a matrix with three blocks of rows — beginning
with ecosystem services (e.g., soil moisture), then livelihood activities (such as crop production)
and finally a synthesis based on livelihoods themselves. Climatic stresses (e.g., drought) are
listed as columns. Users then fill in the cells - rating the sensitivity of ecosystem services,
activities and livelihoods to a range of hazards and stresses. Exposure across the hazards and
impacts across the services/activities/livelihoods can be calculated as aggregated indices.
|
|
Appropriate Use
|
Livelihood sensitivity exercise is a useful tool for helping identify vulnerable livelihoods and
consequently targeting adaptations that aim to increase the resiliency of particular livelihood
strategies to climate change. Livelihood sensitivity exercise is best applied to a single sector or
region at any one time. The approach has been used in regional training workshops for the NAPA teams.
|
|
Scope
|
All sectors. Most applicable at a local or regional level.
|
|
Key Output
|
Ranking of vulnerable livelihoods as well as an overall livelihood sensitivity index.
|
|
Key Input
|
Qualitative assessments of sensitivity of livelihoods to climatic threats.
|
|
Ease of Use
|
Easy
|
|
Training Required
|
A familiarity with livelihoods, expert knowledge elicitation, and vulnerability indicators is
helpful.
|
|
Training Available
|
The NAPA workshops have produced a range of presentations and a sample spreadsheet that are available
at http://www.unitar.org/ccp/ and http://www.vulnerabilitynet.org. The spreadsheet includes notes
on delineation of livelihoods and an illustrative example based on agriculture in southern Africa.
|
|
Computer Requirements
|
Computer access
|
|
Documentation
|
Available at http://www.vulnerabilitynet.org
|
|
Applications
|
See http://www.livelihood.org
|
|
Contacts for Framework, Documentation, Technical Assistance
|
Dr. Thomas Downing
Stockholm Environment Institute, Oxford Office, 10B Littlegate Street, Oxford, OX1 1QT, United
Kingdom; Tel: +44.1865.202070; e-mail: tom.downing@sei.se.
|
|
Cost
|
Free
|
|
References
|
See http://www.livelihood.org
Downing, T.E. 2003. Livelihood Sensitivity to Climatic Hazards. Annex to Technical Paper 3 of the
Adaptation Planning Framework. SEI, Oxford, UK. (http://ncsp.undp.org/report_detail.cfm?Projectid=151).
|
|
|
| |
|
