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A field guide to community based adaptation / Tim Magee ; with a foreword by Howard White
- Author
- Magee, Tim
- Published
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Physical Description
- x, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 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 findings -- 3.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 -- pt. II Design -- 5.Solution: Adaptation Activities -- Researching solution-based project activities -- Program and activity solution list -- Verifying 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? -- pt. 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 activities -- Empowering 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 -- pt. IV Tools and Field Guides -- 10.Tools and Field Guides -- Knowledge 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 -- Field Guide 10.8 Community-Level Water Harvesting -- Field Guide 10.9 Overview of Developing a Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction Plan -- Field Guide 10.10 Diversifying Livelihoods Through Market Links.
- Summary
- "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 fulfil the UN's Millennium Development Goals. If experienced development organizations are finding it difficult to solve decades-old development problems, how will they additionally solve new challenges driven by climate change? A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation illustrates how including community members in project design and co-management leads to long-lasting, successful achievement of development and adaptation goals.This field guide provides a system of building block activities for staff on the ground to use in developing and implementing successful adaptation to climate change projects that can be co-managed and sustained by communities. Based on years of experience in 129 different countries, the field guide uses a step-by-step progression to lead readers through problem assessment, project design, implementation, and community take over. The book equips development staff with all the tools and techniques they need to improve current project effectiveness, to introduce community based adaptation into organizational programming and to generate new projects. The techniques provided can be applied to broad range of challenges, from agriculture and drainage problems, to health concerns, flood defences and market development. The book is supported by a user-friendly website updated by the author, where readers can download online resources for each chapter which they can tailor to their own specific projects.This practical guide is accessible to all levels of development staff and practitioners, as well as to students of development and environmental studies. "--Provided by publisher.
"This innovative field guide argues that in order to combat climate change we must work 'from the ground up' using dynamic community projects. A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation is arranged in a step-by-step progression that leads readers through problem assessment, project design, implementation, and community take over. Based on years of experience in 116 different countries, the field guide provides students and professionals with all the tools needed to develop and deliver their own projects"--Provided by publisher. - Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780415519298 (hardback)
0415519292 (hardback)
9780415519304 (paperback)
0415519306 (paperback)
9780203082553 (ebook)
0203082559 (ebook) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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