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A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation.
The world's poor will be the most critically affected by a changing climate-and yet their current plight isn't improving rapidly enough to fulfill the UN's Millennium Development Goals. If experienced development organizations are finding it difficult to solve decades-old development...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; Introduction; Part I: Local Context; 1. Community: Local Needs; Communities, challenges, and sustainability; Developing a project based upon a participatory needs assessment; Facilitating a participatory needs assessment; Creating a simple project outline; 2. Community: Local Climate Knowledge; Facilitating a participatory capacity and vulnerability assessment; Summarizing and correlating the results of the assessment; Coping strategies and adaptive capacity.
- Revising the project outline based upon new findings3. Climate: Scientific Climate Information; Researching scientific climate change information; Assessing risk and summarizing local scientific climate change information; 4. Challenge: Local Context; Comparing local and scientific climate knowledge; Modifying the project outline based on new scientific information; Completing a revised project outline reflecting local need, local knowledge, and scientific climate knowledge; Part II: Design; 5. Solution: Adaptation Activities; Researching solution-based project activities.
- Program and activity solution listVerifying activity effectiveness through evidence; Community ownership: feedback, input, and engagement; Assessing NGO expertise; 6. Project: Management and Funding Tools; Developing a logical framework; The detailed project budget; The project schedule; The compelling two-page fact sheet; How will you organize a donor presentation?; Part III: Sustainable Implementation; 7. Launch: Partnering with the Community; Preparing for a teambuilding workshop; Forming a community project management committee; 8. Sustainability: Capacity Building for Community Takeover.
- Engaging management committee members in project activitiesEmpowering committee members to co-manage the project; Community capacity building: adaptation skill set workshops; Two-way knowledge transfer; The first community skill set workshop; 9. Impact: Milestones into the Future; Participatory project monitoring and evaluation; Milestones: post-project monitoring and evaluation; Finding future expertise and resources to address future challenges; Developing a long-term project management plan; Packaging and presenting the post-project toolkit; Part IV: Tools and Field Guides.
- 10. Tools and Field GuidesKnowledge Transfer: Developing Field Guides and Lesson Plans; Field Guide 10.1: Participatory Community Needs Assessments; Field Guide 10.2: Participatory Capacity and Vulnerability Assessments; Field Guide 10.3: Preparing Family Garden Beds and Planting Seeds; Field Guide 10.4: Soil Restoration and Conservation for Smallholder Farmers; Field Guide 10.5: Participatory Mapping of Soil and Water Resources; Field Guide 10.6: Agricultural Soil and Water Management for Sloping Land; Field Guide 10.7: Household Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting.