Application of Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (CVCA) Methodology in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia

Short info: This case study analyzes the results, lessons  learned  and  recommendations  emerging  from  the  application  of  the  Climate  Vulnerability  and  Capacity  Assessment  (CVCA)  methodology  in  the  context  of  the  PRAA  project.  First,  it  presents an overview of the project, the areas of intervention  by country, the results of the analysis itself, and lastly, the  main lessons learned and recommendations that arose from  the application of the tools contained in the CVCA Handbook  in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. 

The CVCA methodology is a tool developed by CARE to  delineate  the  socio-‐economic  aspects  of  vulnerability  to  climate change, particularly those factors that make women  and  other  marginalized  groups  especially  vulnerable.  The results of the analysis provide  a  solid  foundation  for  identifying practical strategies to enable community-‐based  adaptation to climate change.

Providing Institution: Care International
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
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Malawi's strategy on climate change learning

Short info: Malawi, like many other developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa is grappling with adverse impacts of climate change. The government of Malawi formulated a Strategy on Climate Change Learning in 2013 to address knowledge gaps that are key for formulating informed policies and climate change interventions. Effective implementation of climate change response initiatives requires high levels of awareness, knowledge and skills on climate change across all socio-economic sectors.

The development of this updated strategy involved multi-stakeholder consultations, complemented with a literature review of key studies that have been conducted in the country since 2013. The updated strategy is intended to address three key pillars: i) Human capacity building, ii) institutional capacity building and iii) Climate change financing.

Providing Institution: Government of Malawi, Ministry of Forestry and Natural Resources Environmental Affairs Department
Region: Africa
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 Gender Analysis Toolkit for Coastal Management Practitioners

Short Info: The toolkit is a practical compendium for coastal and fisheries management practitioners seeking to understand how gender can affect coastal ecosystems resource use and management and coastal resilience. It helps practitioners develop baseline knowledge around gender dimensions related to coastal and natural resources use, livelihoods development and ecosystems management. This knowledge can help identify gender gaps and advance gender-integrated and gender responsive planning for improved resilience of coastal ecosystems and the communities that depend on them.

Providing Institution: Stockholm Environment Institute
Region: Asia
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Landscape Analysis on young people’s engagement in climate change and health in six LMICs in Africa and Asia   

Short info: Young people have demonstrated the capacities and agency to advocate for and contribute to climate action and resilience-building. Making up a large proportion of LMIC populations, their engagement and participation is crucial for inter-generational climate justice and broader social equity. Yet, despite their proven capabilities, structural barriers and normative beliefs too often fail to recognise their rights and agency to participate beyond a tokenistic level.

This research identifies, maps, and analyses relevant actors, stakeholders and initiatives in six countries facing climate risks and public health challenges – Ethiopia, Kenya, and Senegal in Africa, and Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Vietnam in Asia, investigating current knowledge of young people’s engagement; relevant policy and governance mechanisms; roles and responsibilities of key actors and stakeholders; and what factors enable or challenge effective engagement.

The findings lead to recommendations to help stakeholders enhance the engagement of young people in climate change and health action.

Providing Institution: Stockholm Environment Institute, Save the Children
Region: Africa and Asia
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Gender-sensitive Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis (GCVCA)

Short Info: The GCVCA practitioner’s guidebook provides a framework for analysing vulnerability and capacity to adapt to climate change and build resilience to disasters at the community level, with a particular focus on social and in particular gender dynamics, and on Mozambique,  classified  as  one of the world’s most vulnerable countries in the face of climate change  and  natural  disasters.
The GCVCA uses participatory qualitative methods to empower and engage community members in an analytic process.to self assess, articulate and understand their own vulnerabilities and capacities in the face of climate change and natural disasters. and collectively identify how to adapt, using a series of guiding questions to analyse information on climate change, disaster risk and vulnerability at national, local government/community, and household/individual levels.  

Providing Institution: Care International
Region: Global
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Assessment of National Capacities for Implementing Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Measures and Development of a National Capacity Development Program for the Palestinian Authority 

Short info: This report contains the National Capacity Development Program (CDP) on climate change mainstreaming  for  the  Palestinian  Authority,  part  of  a  project  financed  by  the Government of Belgium and implemented by the United Nations Development Programme/Programme  of  Assistance  to  the  Palestinian  People  (UNDP/PAPP),  with  the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) providing technical and financial resources in support of the project. This project aims at enhancing capacities of institutions of the State of  Palestine  to  mainstream  and  address  the  challenges  of  climate  change  in  the  areas  of reporting, mitigation and adaptation.

Proposed actions for increasing the capacities in the State of Palestine include the improvement of the National Institutional Framework for Climate Change (NIFCC); amendments to the legal and regulatory framework and the national strategies and policies; establishing an overall national climate finance and good financial governance structure; strengthening the overall information sharing and awareness on climate change in Palestine.

Providing Institution: Triple, Climatekos
Region: Asia
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Training Needs Assessment in Climate Change, Gender and Health For Health workers in Malawi

Short info: This is training needs assessment for climate change and gender in relation to health, involving a rapid review of the literature on gender, health and climate change; focus group discussions and in-depth interviews. and a review of academic curricula for content in climate change and gender in relation to health.

It proposes content for inclusion in curricula for climate change and health and for gender and health, methods for climate change training for health workers, the launch of educational campaigns.

Providing Institution: University of Malawi
Region: Africa
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Integrating gender targets into LEDS and NAMAs

Short info: As part of its Carbon Neutral Strategy (CNS), Bhutan is  undertaking  the design of mitigation actions across a number of key sectors including: transport; waste; housing, and industry. To help mainstream gender balance into this design process, a Rapid Gender Capacity Needs Assessment  was  developed  and  implemented to: identify and develop capacities to enhance scaled up mitigation actions  ;  integrate  gender  issues  in  climate  policy  development;  and  provide   gender disaggregated data to the government to improve policy-making.

The assessment primarily focuses at the national level, but also seeks to engage relevant stakeholders from local governments, civil society, and industry. It has improved capacity and provided key recommendations and entry points for gender mainstreaming in national strategies.

Providing Institution: International Partnership on Mitigation and MRV
Region: Asia
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Integrating gender in Climate change adaptation proposals

Short info: USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific’s On-Line Sourcebook: Integrating Gender in Climate Change Adaptation Proposals is a (periodically updated) live document, intended to be used mainly by individuals and teams who prepare large-scale climate change adaptation (CCA) project proposals. It provides readers with tools to help answer the question, "How do we best go about incorporating gender considerations into our CCA proposal?"

Gender-sensitive stakeholder analysis in the context of a climate change project involves the assessment of the distribution of tasks, activities and rewards associated with the division of labor at a particular locality or across a region, the relative positions of women and men in terms of representation and influence; and the benefits and disincentives associated with the allocation of tasks to women and men.

The majority of the document includes brief summaries of key points, highly useful tables from other resources, short text box examples, links to the best available resources, and compilations of project cases employing gender best practices. As well as a checklist of gender options by CCA proposal section and a summary of global and Asia-Pacific resource institutions for CCA/gender advice and resources.

Providing Institution: Asia pacific adaptation network
Region: Asia
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Assessment if Rural Communities' Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Short info: This research assesses the adaptive capacity of rural people to climate change in Kaduna State with particular reference to some selected communities in six Local Government Areas of the state.  The results revealed that the  capacity  of  individuals  or  households  to adapt  to  climate  change impacts  is  a function  of  their  access to resources. The  capacity  of  individuals  or  households  to adapt  to  climate  change impacts  is  a function  of  their  access to  resources . The study recommends the development of climate change policies that would enhance the adaptive capacities of rural communities at both the state and local government levels. These policies should be specifically geared toward low adaptive capacity areas with emphasis on poverty reduction.

Providing Institution: Federal University Dutse
Region: Global
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Mapping of Institutional Arrangement in Sri Lanka for Climate Change Mitigation 

Short info: This institutional mapping report focuses on climate change related sub-national level institutional arrangements in Sri Lanka, placing high emphasis on mitigation and low emission development. It seeks to identify and map the key stakeholders at sub-national levels in Sri Lanka, to improve clarity on institutional jurisdictions, functions, and mandates across levels of government and civil society to deliver emission reductions and improve the climate resilience of infrastructure services, to understand the potential subnational governance role in developing and achieving national level climate change targets; to understand the potential influence and role can be played by sub-national stakeholders on Climate Change.
Providing Institution: LEDS; Janathakshan
Region: Asia
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The GIZ sourcebook for climate-specific monitoring in the context of international cooperation 

Short Info: This sourcebook is intended to act as a reference and aims to contribute to the calculation, standardised definition and illustration of climate results in climate-relevant projects. It is divided into three parts:

• Basic principles of results-based monitoring, target areas for categorising climate results, and the meaning of co-benefits for all climate change related projects.

• Results in climate protection projects

• Results in adaptation projects

It is aimed at everyone who works on the  planning, execution, monitoring or evaluation of environmental projects in the area of international cooperation.  The focus is on tracing intended climate results at a  project level.

Providing Institution:  GIZ
Region: Global
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• Global Climate Change Institutional Capacity Assessment
• Global capacity needs assessment methodology
• Step-by-step Guidelines for Establishing a National Framework for Climate Services
• CCDA Capacity Needs Assessment Towards GCF Requirements and Private Sector Assessment to Develop Climate Change Projects
• Updated Gender Policy and Gender Action Plan 2020-2023
• Knowledge platform: Sylcan trust
• Fourth National Communication and Biennial Update Reports to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• Implementation of the framework for capacity-building in developing countries. Synthesis report by the secretariat 
• Activities, outcomes, impacts and context by Better evaluation
• Analysis of capacity needs and gaps and possible strategies to address them
•  Identify reporting requirements by Better evaluation
• Capacity-building documents prepared by the secretariat in support of UNFCCC negotiations 
• Training and Knowledge Products for Capacity Development on Climate Finance 
• CGE toolbox on institutional arrangements
• Supporting Uzbekistan to advance their NAP process
• New diagnostic tool for more gender-inclusive water, sanitation and hygiene services 
• Empowerment in WASH Index
• The Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD) framework
• Towards a just Transition
• National Communication submissions from Non-Annex I Parties Providing Institution
• Stronger Human Resources and Improved Skills to Tackle Climate Change
• Thematic Capacity Building
• Technology needs Assessment - knowledge sharing platform

General information:

• A Guide to Organizational Capacity Assessment Tools
• Viewing Capacity Development through Four Dimensions of Change
• Conceptualizing Capacity Building
• Women and transportation in East Africa
• What is Stakeholder Analysis?
• Methodology for Self-assessment of Capacity Building in Member States with Nuclear Power Programmes and Those Planning to Embark on Such a Programme
• Organisational development, innovation & change
• Investigating Policy Processes: The Governance Analytical Framework (GAF)
• Stakeholder analysis
• Stakeholder Engagement in IUCN projects
• Organizational Capacity Assessment for Community-Based Organizations
• The Methods Lap evaluation toolkit
• Data collection methods