| Name | Description | References |
| Designing Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives: A UNDP Toolkit for Practitioners | This Toolkit aspires to support all those involved in the design of measurable, verifiable, and reportable adaptation initiatives. It provides step-by-step guidance. As such, it seeks to answer the following question: What are the basic steps in planning and designing an adaptation initiative? | http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/environment-energy/low_emission_climateresilientdevelopment/designing-adaptation-initiativestoolkit.html |
| BACCLIAT and speed BACCLIAT | This tool comprises a framework for explorative discussions that can be conducted through set of workshops. Each of the BACLIAT workshops can be delivered as a standalone activity to raise awareness, or to start exploring the implications of climate change impacts and adaptation at either a company or a sectoral level. Those who do not have time to set up and run a workshop may choose to use the Speed BACLIAT instead. They could form part of a wider process of developing an adaptation plan or strategy. It was developed to support businesses to adapt but can be adapted for other contexts. | Gentoo Housing Association http://www.ukcip.org.uk/wordpress/wpcontent/Business_casestudies/BCS_Gentoo.pdf A changing climate for cider http://www.ukcip.org.uk/business/businesscase-studies/cider-makers/ For more information go to: http://www.ukcip.org.uk/bacliat/ |
| Adaptation Wizard | The
adaptation wizard takes you through a process to determine your
vulnerability to climate change, identify your key climate risks, and
develop a climate change adaptation strategy. It is also a guide to all
the information, tools and resources developed by the UK Climate
Impacts Programme. The Wizard can be used to:
| For more information go to: http://www.ukcip.org.uk/wizard/ The wizard was developed from a longer framework (the Risk, Uncertainty and Decision Making Framework) available here: http://www.ukcip.org.uk/risk/ The Port of Felixstowe, the UK’s largest container port, completed a high level climate risk assessment using the UKCIP Adaptation Wizard: http://www.ukcip.org.uk/wizard/wizard-casestudies/felixstowe/ |
| Local Climate Impacts Profile (LCLIP) | LCLIP is a resource that organisations can compile in order to get a better understanding of their exposure to weather and climate. It was developed for local authorities in UK but has a wider application. | There are a number of case studies available on the UKCIP website e.g. Oxfordshire County Council http://www.ukcip.org.uk/lclip/lclip-case-studies/oxfordshire-cc/ Hampshire County Council http://www.ukcip.org.uk/lclip/lclip-case-studies/hampshire-cc/ |
| The Climate Lens: an all round policy tool | The OECD has developed a practical tool known as the 'climate lens' to help decision makers analyse the needs and options for climate change adaptation in policy choices. . In essence, it suggests asking four questions about any decision:
| http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/27/46664494.pdf |
| Problem and solution trees | Problem tree analysis helps to find solutions by mapping out cause and effect around an issue in a similar way to a mind map, but with more structure. The problem can thus be broken down into more manageable chunks allowing for prioritisation, helping to focus objectives. It also allows people to gain a shared understanding of different perspectives on the problem and where there are gaps in knowledge which helps in identifying sustainable solutions | Example of use of problem and solution trees for small stock development http://www.smallstock.info/info/comm/prob-tree.htm For more information go to: http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/details.asp?id=5258&title=problem-treeanalysis |
| JoHaRi's Window | This technique explores the difference between professionals and local people’s knowledge and helps to highlight inherent prejudices and preconceptions about the value of each. Participants are asked to fill in the following matrix with examples from their own experience. This can be done at a general level for professionals and locals or on a more specific level e.g. administrators, small businesses versus small farmers etc. and the differences shared and compared | The known unknowns of climate change: adaptation in the Southern Agricultural Region of Western Australia http://www.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/109611/EFS_Journal_vol_5_no_2_11_Gray.pdf For more information go to: http://www.businessballs.com/johariwindowmodel.htm |
| Logical frameworks | A logical framework is an analytical, presentational and management tool which can help planners and managers to analyse the existing situation during activity preparation, establish a logical hierarchy of means by which objectives will be reached, identify the potential risks to achieving the objectives, and to sustainable outcomes, establish how outputs and outcomes might best be monitored and evaluated, if desired, present a summary of the activity in a standard format, and monitor and review activities during implementation. | For more information go to: http://www.ausaid.gov.au/ausguide/pdf/ausguideline3.3.pdf |
| Gender specific planning guidance and tools | ||
| Resources relating to gender and climate change: how climate changes and the impacts resulting affect women differently to men | Climate Change affects men and women differently largely due to differing roles and responsibilities. Gender analysis is thus an important part of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. Here is list of 174 resources relating to gender and climate change and disaster risk reduction related documents from the International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction ( ISDR) partnership and the disaster risk reduction (DRR) community | http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/publications/?tid=38 |
| Adaptation, gender and women’s empowerment | A particular climate hazard, such as a drought, does not affect all people within a community – or even the same household – equally because some people have greater capacity than others to manage the crisis. The inequitable distribution of rights, resources and power – as well as repressive cultural rules and norms – constrains many people’s ability to take action on climate change. This is especially true for women. Therefore, gender is a critical factor in understanding vulnerability to climate change and any analysis needs to include an examination of differential vulnerability due to social, political and economic inequalities. This assessment helps to tailor adaptation strategies to the specific needs, capacities and priorities of women. | http://www.careclimatechange.org/files/toolkit/CARE_Gender_Brief_2010.pdf |
Related section of the Pathfinder:
| Decision tree: Implementing adaptation actions - Getting started |
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