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Theme: Networking Project Name: Linking Climate Adaptation (LCA) Network Date: June 2004 – May 2005 Project partners: The LCA Project is coordinated by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and IIED. Additional partners include: The Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS); Development Alternatives, India; Zimbabwe Environmental Research Organization (ZERO); Environment and Development Action (ENDA), Senegal; African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), Nairobi; Institute of Agricultural Environment and Sustainable Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing. Objective: The objective of this interdisciplinary project is to ensure that poor people benefit from adaptation processes, rather than bearing greater burdens, by, for example, having the risks caused by climate change shifted in their direction. The key research aim of the LCA Project is to determine what kind of procedural and institutional frameworks are needed to ensure that locally determined adaptation needs are linked ‘upwards’ to national and international policy and institutional structures. The Project will identify how actors, funding flows and policy mechanisms must be linked to support successful community-led adaptation. The Project links geographically dispersed communities in developing countries undertaking adaptation at the local level with each other as well as linking them with those engaged in formal scientific and policy responses to climate change. This will assist communities and developing country adaptation experts share theoretical, policy and experiential knowledge and contribute to easing capacity related bottlenecks. The Project will also identify longer-term research priorities needed to support community led adaptation in the future. Project Activities: LCA project partners will undertake six country case studies covering Asia (Bangladesh, India, China) and Africa (Senegal, Kenya, and Zimbabwe) because the majority of the world’s 1.2 billion poor reside in these regions. The case studies will provide examples of ‘good practice’ community led adaptation focusing on food security and agriculture. The LCA project will create a web-based multi-level network to facilitate information flows and connectivity among and between members from different domains and with media representatives interested in climate impacts/adaptation issues. It will facilitate access to information by vulnerable communities to relevant scientific and policy literature, to adaptation experts and importantly to community-based forms of knowledge from other geographic regions. The Project will also produce a framework paper to guide how actors and local, national and international procedures and institutional frameworks can be linked to provide support for community led initiatives and also develop a research agenda on climate change adaptation and related international issues. Funded by: the UK Department for International Development (DFID) Copyright © 2005 International Institute for Environment and Development. |
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