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Tracking adaptation and measuring development
… broadens the way that decision makers evaluate the impact of climate adaptation interventions on development … Tracking adaptation and measuring development …
Publication, 01 December 2013
An image of Saleemul Huq at the podium giving a speech. On the final day of the CBA10 conference, he called for federations and communities of the urban poor to be better utilised by urban developers, climate change practitioners and local government to mainstream local adaptation (Photo: ICCCAD, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
International climate adaptation conference calls for governments, NGOs and infrastructure investors to work with urban community federations to mainstream and finance local adaptation
… climate change practitioners and local government to mainstream local adaptation. Delegates showed that with the right support, these … federations of the urban poor is a 'bottom up' approach to achieve adaptation at scale, which also has benefits for pro-poor urban … dwellers associations have the potential to scale up community-based adaptation projects and initiatives and continue the work started by …
News, 28 April 2016
Stunted crops in the Kaffrine region of Senegal are the result of a lack of rainfall, jeopardising farmers’ harvests (Photo: Daniella Van Leggelo-Padilla/World Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Local climate adaptation: bridging the funding gap
… this, wealthier countries are providing climate finance to support adaptation and mitigation measures for those most affected or at risk. … What is needed is a way to bridge this divide. Decentralised climate adaptation funds One way of ensuring that local people have access to … national and devolved governments set up decentralised climate adaptation funds in Kenya and Tanzania. These pilots are serving as the …
Insight, 09 July 2015
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Tracking adaptation and measuring development in Nepal
… reports a case study from Nepal that empirically tested the Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD) methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of approaches to climate adaptation. Nepal has many climate change projects, so this study used a … It draws out the policy implications for how to monitor and evaluate adaptation in Nepal and how to use the TAMD framework approach both for …
Publication, 01 June 2014
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Examples of low cost community based adaptation projects
Publication, 18 May 2016
This culvert, constructed to allow villagers to cross the River Mahenya, Kenya, proves insufficient at times of extreme rainfall. Kenya is one of the pilot countries for TAMD which aims to improve the way climate adaptation is assessed (Photo: Robin Wyatt)
Measuring the impact of climate adaptation on development
… A new framework is improving climate adaptation assessment, evaluating it alongside local climate resilience and economic development. Tracking Adaptation and Measuring Development (TAMD) helps assess how effectively adaptation interventions lead to development and how well climate risks … Measuring the impact of climate adaptation on development …
Article, 20 January 2014
A large number of people stand and pose for a photo in front of a huge COP30 sign.
Climate and Development Ministerial
… finance institutions (known as ‘co-champions’). The co-champions are: Adaptation Fund, Denmark, Ethiopia, Ireland, Italy, Malawi, Nepal, … another in a collaborative manner, build trust and discuss critical adaptation finance issues outside of the UNFCCC process. …
Article, 29 August 2025
Women doing maintenance work on a fish sanctuary in Bangladesh (Photo: Paul Thompson/Challenge Program on Water and Food, Creative Commons via Flickr)
1st International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA1)
… enable communities to adapt to climate change. About community-based adaptation (CBA)  Climate change is considered to be one of the most … been the main focus for many climate change experts, but adaptation to the effects of climate change is also vital for responding … particularly in developing countries.  The concept of community-based adaptation emerged out of a growing recognition in the development …
Article, 07 April 2016
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Institutionalising adaptation monitoring and evaluation frameworks: Kenya
Publication, 01 August 2014
Conference organiser Saleemul Huq receives the "Burtoni" award: from left to right: Ian Burton (IPCC lead author), Roger Jones (CSIRO), Atiq Rahman (BCAS), Saleemul Huq (IIED) and Richard Klein (SEI) (Photo: IISD)
2nd International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA2)
… media, attended the 2nd International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA2 ) to climate change in Dhaka in February 2007. … (IPCC) , spoke at the opening plenary. Burton said information on adaptation had "filtered down" since the signing of the  UN Framework … He added that a reverse process of "flooding up" was needed, to allow adaptation information to be brought to the UNFCCC. Burton said this …
Article, 14 April 2016