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ACCRA
Who we are, what we do and where we
work.
Why should you be interested?
How can you contribute?
CCA and Africa
Another layer of complexity to existing development challenges.
Implications for humanitarian and development interventions.
Agricultural production and food security likely to be severely
compromised by climate change and climate variability (high confidence).
50% reduction in yield by 2020, and crop net revenues could fall by as
much as 90% by 2100.
About 25% of Africa’s population (about 200 million people) currently
experience high water stress. The population at risk of increased water
stress in Africa is projected to be between 350-600 million people by
2050.
Interest in developing country governments. Interest
from key donors. ACCRA seeks to feed into debate
and practice.
Adaptive capacity
‘The property of a system to adjust its characteristics or
behaviour, in order to expand its coping range under existing
climate variability, or future climate conditions.’ (UNDP, 2005)
‘The potential of individuals, communities, and societies to be
actively involved in the processes of change, in order to
minimize negative impacts and maximize any benefits from
changes in the climate.’ Oxfam GB
Summary of Climate Change Adaptation
Measures to generically reduce vulnerability and specific measures for total risks:
Examples of generic measures to
reduce vulnerability:
Promotion of minimum wage to reduce
vulnerability.
Cash transfers and social insurance to
contribute to poverty reduction and
reduce vulnerability.
Livelihoods diversification to spread
risk.
Increased power in markets to increase
income.
Livelihoods and
agriculture
Social Protection
DRR
Natural resource
management
Examples of measures for specific
impacts:
Increased heat: Drought resistant crops.
Increased risk of floods: district level
contingency plans; PCVA, Early Warning
Systems; stockpiling.
Decreased and unpredictable rain:
appropriate forecasts, crop
diversification, farming techniques that
reduce crop water needs.
Reforestation to protect embankments,
reduce local temperatures, and provide
food and fodder in times of scarcity.
Working at community level and with
national institutions
Adaptive capacity:
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is forward looking;
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focuses on process that enables us to move to a
climate smart system;
•
supports development practitioners to move away
from a ‘business-as-usual’ approach to thinking
about impact of CC on development;
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Has a long-term perspective.
ACCRA
Ethiopia
Uganda
Mozambique
ACCRA’s objectives
1.
To understand how existing social protection, livelihoods and disaster risk
reduction projects by ACCRA members build adaptive capacity to climate
change in beneficiaries, and how these approaches can be strengthened.
2.
To use the findings to influence donors, development partners and civil
society to improve future planning/action.
3.
To work together with local and national governments to build capacity to
implement interventions which can build communities’ adaptive capacity.
4.
To encourage learning across countries, disciplines
and organisations.
What ACCRA will do
Research and learning
Capacity building/advocacy
Evidence-based action by humanitarian and
development actors: Donors, NGOs,
Governments
Support poor communities’ ability to adapt to adapt to
climate hazards, variability and change.
Key questions to frame our research
1. How are different livelihood groups currently affected
by climate variability / change?
2. What is currently happening in existing projects that is
helping to increase the adaptive capacity of systems to
climate change?
3. What is missing – within reasonable limits – in
current projects that would enhance adaptive
capacity?
The Local Adaptive Capacity Framework
• Conceptual basis for ACCRA’s research.
• Options to use it going forward:
– devising indicators for M&E;
– to guide the design of a project, or a suite of projects;
– to inform or assess government and NGO policies and
strategies.
• ACCRA is currently exploring these.
• ACCRA will look for opportunities to develop these partnerships,
and others beyond the consortium.
• LACf aims to inform policy and development
interventions.
Working with governments
ACCRA will work closely with local governments in each
country, seeking to involve them in the development of the
research framework, the research process and validation of
the findings.
ACCRA will carry out capacity gap analyses with local
governments in each country and undertake capacity
building activities. This will inform future work on building
governments’ capacity on CCA.
ACCRA has carried out reviews on the policy
context and key actors in each country to
inform our work.
Working with ACCRA members and
others
Consortium is operational in each country.
Involved in the development of research approach and
research itself.
Disseminating learning and best practice from ACCRA
members’ work.
Encouraging others to change practice or policies
based on findings.
Why should you be interested?
• Lack of evidence about what are the most effective interventions to
promote adaptive capacity – ACCRA is practical.
• Growing consensus that joint work across different fields is required
to respond to these challenges, not yet reflected in the policy,
practice or research priorities of governments and other
development actors.
• Despite policy commitments in many African countries
and experience from development actors, governments lack the
capacity to implement adaptation and DRR activities in
ways that involve and benefit the most vulnerable.
• Seeking to build trust and dialogue between
government and NGOs – in case of Ethiopia.
How can you be involved?
• Share information on your own work – we’re keen to
link up with others.
• Feed in your information to us.
• Feed our messages/findings into your work as they
emerge.
• Share your views on the LACf.
• Learn from research and think about your own
practice.
Contacts
Jo Lofthouse, International Programme Coordinator:
[email protected]
Simon Levine, ODI lead: [email protected]
Samuel Maibasse, Mozambique coordinator: ACCRA
[email protected]
Margaret Barihaihi, Uganda ACCRA coordinator:
[email protected]
Kirsty Wilson, Ethiopia ACCRA coordinator
[email protected]