Transcript Pro-Poor Asset Adaptationx

A Framework For Pro-Poor
Asset Adaptation to Urban
Climate Change
The Need for a Framework
• We need specific tools which can be used to support pro-poor
adaptation strategies in urban areas
• support existing coping strategies to protect assets and rebuild after
climate change-related disasters
Current Approaches to Climate Change
Asset Adaptation Framework
Two Components
1. Asset Vulnerability Analytical Framework- identifies the types of
socio-economic vulnerability and groups most affected in four
closely inter-related ‘phases’ or ‘stages’ that can occur during urban
climate change
2. Asset Adaptation Operational Framework• ‘bottom-up’ climate change adaptation strategies that individuals, households
and communities have developed to cope with different phases of climate
change
• ‘top-down’ interventions at city and national level
Important Definitions
Vulnerability- lack of resilience to changes that threaten welfare. These changes bring
increasing risk and uncertainty.
Assets- stock of financial, human, natural, or social resources that can be acquired,
developed, improved and transferred across generations
Types of Capital Assets
• Physical &Financial
• Human- investments in education, health and nutrition and related capacity in labor
• Social- rules, norms, obligations, reciprocity and trust embedded in social relations and
structures
• Natural- environmentally provided i.e. soil, atmosphere, forests
Asset-Based Adaptation Strategy:
3 Basic Principles
1. External factors such as government policy, political institutions,
and NGOs play a role in how assets held by individuals are
protected or adapted.
2. The context within which actors operate can provide and enabling
environment for protecting or adapting assets.
3. Household assets change over time, which means they can move
into security/vulnerability through internal changes and in response
to external economic, political, and institutional variability.
4 Phases of Vulnerability to Climate Change
1. Long-term resilience- identification of those who live/work in
locations most at risk from impacts of CC or lack the infrastructure
to reduce risk
2. Pre-disaster damage limitation- who lacks the knowledge and
capacity to take immediate short-term measures to limit impact
3. Immediate post-disaster response- concerns groups less able to
cope with impacts
4. Rebuilding- groups with the least capacity to adapt after disaster
Applied Framework: Storms and Floods
Long Term Resilience
Applied Framework: Storms and Floods
Pre-Disaster Damage Limitation
Applied Framework: Storms and Floods
Immediate Post-Disaster Response
Applied Framework: Storms and Floods
Rebuilding and Transformation
Applied Framework: Cartagena, Colombia
Asset Planning for Climate Change (APCA)- undertaken to identify the
impacts of climate change on health and environmental hazards in the slums
Administered in 3 phases:
• Feasibility and preparation phase- understand characteristics and climate
related issues. Identify partner institutions and planning sites.
• Diagnostic phase (2 part)
• Participatory Climate Change Asset Adaptation Appraisal (PCAA)- identifies
vulnerability of households, businesses, and communities; adaptive capacity; and
sources of resilience
• Rapid Institutional Appraisal (RIA)- relevant national policies, programs, and projects
• Planning phase (2 part)
• Asset Adaptation Planning Workshop (AWP)- participation from all stakeholders
• Mainstreaming- follow-up and monitoring of agreements reached during workshop
Applied Framework: Cartagena, Colombia
Identification of Issues and Vulnerabilities
Climate and Infrastructure Issues
• Severe weather events- rain, flooding, heat, dust storms
• No storm drainage- increased severity of floods
• Poor roads- rain causes major transport problems
Asset Vulnerability in the Barrio as Determined by Focus Groups
• Septic Tanks
• Electricity
• Health
• Streets
• Houses
Applied Framework: Cartagena, Colombia
Action Plan
1. Topographical and Pluviometric Survey of Barrio- involving a
socioeconomic study, surveying, and coordination to share results
2. Dredging and widening of drainage canals- census of houses to
classify and resettle, community participation, awareness
campaigns, clearing and cleaning
3. Healthy Housing Minimum Improvement- survey, identification of
houses, socioeconomic study, program implementation
4. Improvements to community nursery houses- include in Healthy
Housing program
Applied Framework: Cartagena, Colombia
Lessons
1. Climate change can be used as an entry point for planning for the
upgrading of poor urban settlements
2. APCA shows that the urban poor are not lacking of knowledge, resources
or capabilities
3. The process identifies vulnerability not only as a function of exposure,
sensitivity and adaptive capacity but also identifies current coping and
adaption practices
4. APCA is grounded in specific strategies of the urban poor so there are
possibilities of finding agreement between them and the local
government
5. APCA framework builds capacities in local institutions to mainstream
asset adaptation planning
6. APCA is a learning opportunity for different stakeholders
Did the researchers consider transformation/resilience in the Cartagena
Case? Were there obstacles?
References
Moser, C. “A Conceptual and Operational Framework for Pro-poor Asset
Adaptation to Urban Climate Change”. In Cities and Climate Change. Ed.
Daniel Hoornweg, Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2011:225-255
Stein, A. and Moser, C. Asset planning for climate change adaptation:
lessons from Cartagena, Colombia in Environment and Urbanization,
April 2014 26: 166-183