The adaptation "Toolkit": A guide book for researchers

Issue Date: March 2013

The “Adaptation toolkit – a guide book for researchers and adaptation practitioners working with local communities” contains 7 participatory tools selected on the basis of their ability to guide researchers and adaptation practitioners in the implementation of a participatory climate vulnerability assessment that can inform adaptation choices at the community level. These tools when used in combination help conduct a climate change vulnerability assessment and develop adaptation strategies based on current capacities. Specifically, researchers are able to: identify current capacities, skills and assets in a project site, understand climate related events in the past and coping strategies used as well as current climatic/environmental hazards that shape vulnerability; and on this basis facilitate a multi-stakeholder process for developing locally suitable adaptation strategies