Community Based Adaptation Exchange (CBA-X)

Community based adaptation recognises that environmental knowledge, vulnerability and resilience to climate impacts are embedded in societies and cultures. This means the focus is on empowering communities to themselves take action based on their own decision-making processes.

Increased resilience to climate stresses can be achieved by enabling communities to enhance their capacity to cope with climate extremes and surprises, such as hurricanes, floods or droughts. Although community based adaptation is an emerging area, efforts are being been made to develop participatory methodologies, raise awareness of climate change and foster adaptive capacity.