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AIACC Project AF14:
Strategies for Increasing
Community Resilience in Sudan:
Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation
A joint
project of the Sudan Higher Council for
Environment and Natural Resources and SEI-Boston
Project Goal:
To contribute to efforts to build the
resilience of vulnerable communities to climate change.
AF14: Major Objectives
Identify SL and environmental management
(EM) strategies that are effective at increasing
the resilience of vulnerable communities to
climate-related shocks
Assess these in the context of underlying
conditions and of climate change
Share lessons for promoting climate change
adaptation with the research, planning and
policy-making communities
AF14: Project Approach
The project will look at:
Vulnerable communities within Sudan.
Vulnerability and level of adaptation to current
climatic conditions.
Community-based strategies for coping with and
adapting to climate-related stressors.
Underlying conditions (socioeconomic, political,
ecological) that promote or inhibit these strategies.
AF14: Project Approach
Want to understand:
what SL/EM strategies can do for a community
What measures and strategies used? To what effect?
what factors are needed to support or enable SL/EM strategies
What national and local policies, conditions, etc. are behind successful
strategies?
General steps:
– Identify and confirm “successful” SL/EM experiences
– Explore the nature of this success – use indicators to determine the way in which
the community is resilient
– Ask “why?” - what factors/conditions made it possible for strategies to be
implemented, to take hold and to persist
– Distill lessons on how to build community resilience to climate impacts
Developing a Research Strategy
1) Defining Research Goals
To illustrate the ways in which certain SL/EM measures
increase a community’s resilience to today's climate-related
shocks
To illustrate how such measures can be effectively
implemented and supported for lasting impact.
2) Defining Methodological Approach
Locally –derived resilience indicators will be developed e.g
(grain stores , household assets, access to credit etc..)
Qualitative experimental information will be collected on the
local and national factors that enabled SL/EM measure
implementation.
Developing a Research Strategy (ctd.)
) Defining Research Scope
Climate stressor :for each case study, a discrete climate
–related event –past or ongoing- will be identified around
which case study will be constructed
Agric.system :Each case study will focus on agric.
System and dependent communities within a particular
region that has been exposed to a climate stressor
SL/EM strategy: Identification of SL/EM will occur tandem
with identification of agric. system
Developing a Research Strategy (ctd.)
4) Defining Indicators and Data Needs
A generic set of indicators of system resilience will be
developed by the project.
These indicators will then be adapted on a case by
case basis on the specific local content of each case
study
Case study researchers will adapt indicators with
community input during initial reconnaissance of site
visit
Developing a Research Strategy (ctd.)
Selecting Case Studies: Criteria involved :
Past and on going climate related events (prolonged
drought),representative to national & regional future C.C.
conditions.
Specific examples of community-level SL/EM measures
that have been applied in Sudan (replicable).
Specific examples of community –level SL/EM
applications considered successful (by Gov.,NGOs,CBOs)
Clear research objectives, available data and feasible field
work strategies.
Research methods
Interviews
Role playing
Group discussion ,PRA
Stakeholder participation (results screening)
Multicriteria assessment
Expected outputs
A series of 4 case studies reports
A series of three project synthesis reports
A peer reviewed publication of one or more synthesis
documents
A series of four training modules
Three regional training workshops
A dedicated web page
A regional network
Potential Stakeholders Include:
Communities in drought-prone regions
NGOs ,
Research and scientific communities
Relevant gov. institutions (local & national)
Disaster management organizations
AIACC, IPCC and climate change community
Funding and donor organizations
Potential Decisions
Community-level planning decisions
Local gov.adaptation planning
National adaptation and development planning
(e.g NAP and NAPA)
Regional and international planning (Sahel,
LDCs)