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Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET)
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ISET focuses on environmentally sustainable development and poverty alleviation within the
context of rapid social, economic, political and environmental change (including climate change
and variability). All of ISET's programmes are focused in the South Asia region,
specifically India, Nepal and Pakistan.
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Action Pledge
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ISET is exploring the possibility of partnering with and fostering social entrepreneurs with climate
resilient and environmentally sustainable business models, ideas for adaptive livelihoods, financial
risk spreading, and the diversification of markets. ISET would provide information, expertise and
potentially capital to such entrepreneurs until such time that the business ventures could
successfully stand on their own.
Possible activities include
- Creating/serving as an incubation group providing information, expertise to entrepreneurs engaged
in climate resilient projects;
- Producing replicable outcomes and lessons learned from the sustainable livelihoods that
can be disseminated widely through the Nairobi work programme.
Overall objectives of ISET’s pledge
- Assessing the costs and benefits of pro-active disaster risk management to meet the needs of
vulnerable communities in South Asia.
- Seeking to understand the autonomous processes of adaptation that individuals, households,
businesses and communities take in response to the opportunities, constraints and risks climate
change poses to their livelihood systems.
- Strengthening the planned adaptive response that governments, organizations, and sometimes
businesses take by developing strategies that are capable of responding to both incremental and
pulsed changes.
- Piloting methods, such as shared learning dialogues, to facilitate communication, understanding,
shared learning, and cooperation between public and private sectors, all levels of government, and
communities.
- Studying and seeking to support interventions that increase diversification of livelihood options
and economic systems.
- Studying and supporting interventions that emphasize learning to live with risk, climate
variability and change.
 Action
pledge (147 kB)
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Action Pledge Update (September 2009)
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The following were provided as contributions to and are summarised in the Nairobi work
programme publication "Action Pledges: Making a difference on the ground. A synthesis of the
outcomes, good practices, lessons learned, and future challenges and opportunities"
Scaling up community-based adaptation actions
Scaling Up
Local and Community Based Actions (224 kB)
Reducing risks of extreme events and climate-related disasters
Reducing risks
of extreme events and weather-related disasters (319 kB)
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