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How is the actors' potential capacity?
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How is the actors' potential capacity?

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In order to do that you need to know the actor's potential capacity (high or low?), which refers to resources, skills and networks or social capital, available to the private actor. If potential capacity is unknown, methods may be applied to describe resources available to the affected actor, such as, the sustainable livelihoods framework (Scoones, 1998) and the IPCC adaptive capacity framework. Assessing the potential capacity thus refers to assessing resources available to an actor in an objective sense.

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Assessing the capacity of private actors includes two aspects. The first aspect is the actor’s potential capacity. Potential capacity refers to resources, including material resources, skills and networks or social capital, available to the private actor.

If potential capacity is unknown, methods may be applied to describe resources available to the affected actor, such as, the sustainable livelihoods framework (Scoones, 1998) and the IPCC adaptive capacity framework. Assessing the potential capacity thus refers to assessing the resources available to an actor in an objective sense.

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This section is based on the UNEP PROVIA guidance document

Criteria checklist

1. You want to identify adaptation measures.
2. Your focus is on public actors and on individual actions.
3. As a next step you are faced with assessing the actors' potential capacity.