Publications

28 February 2017

APAN Forum 2016 Session Summary: Vertical integration: Lessons from local level adaptation planning

The session “Vertical Integration: Lessons from Local Level Adaptation Planning” was organized during the 5th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 19 October 2016. The session shared the experience...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Event Proceedings

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28 February 2017

APAN Forum 2016 Session Summary: Integrated Watershed Management for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction

The session “Integrated Watershed Management for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reductiton” was organized during the 5th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 19 October 2016. The sess...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Event Proceedings

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16 February 2017

Innovative Financing for the Adaptation Fund: Pathways and Potentials

This new report explores the potential of seven innovative climate finance options to meet the financing needs of the Adaptation Fund. It concludes that if implemented in a collective manner, these can provide a steady and predict...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

15 February 2017

Summary of Adaptation Measures in the Nationally Determined Contributions of selected Asia-Pacific Countries

The international commitments in response to climate change have been made globally, particularly at COP21 in Paris in December 2015 and at COP22 in Marrakech in November 2016. All parties are required to submit their Nationally D...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

10 February 2017

Adapting and Living below 2°C: Outcomes of the 5th Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum

“Adapting and Living below 2oC: bridging gaps in policies and practices” call for harnessing more local involvement in integrated adaptation planning, providing access to relevant sources of financing and technologies, provisionin...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Event Proceedings

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19 October 2016

Overcoming Floods in the Philippines: A story of climate change adaptation and mitigation

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus / Natural Resources and Agriculture

PUBLICATION TYPE : Video

Philippines

17 August 2016

Supporting community adaptation to water shortages in Kiribati - DAMP Handbook

The dynamic adaptive management process (DAMP) was designed to build the skills of community facilitators to lead participatory decision-making processes to plan for the delivery of basic services under a changing climate. It prov...

THEMES : Communication and Awareness

PUBLICATION TYPE : Guideline / Manual / Toolkit

Kiribati, Pacific

31 July 2016

Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Report: Developing a Demonstration Site in Nepal on Community Forestry, Gender and Climate Change Adaptation

The Asia-Pacific region has some of the highest absolute numbers of people dependent on forests for significant portions of their livelihoods, and also stands to suffer some of the greatest expected economic and loss of human life...

THEMES : Community Based Adaptation / Forecast and Assessment / Gender and Social Impacts / Natural Resources and Agriculture

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Nepal

27 July 2016

Guidelines for Designing Bankable Adaptation Projects

For countries to gain direct access to international climate change adaptation funds, like the Adaptation Fund, they not only need to be able to pass stringent accreditation requirements, but they also need the skills to prepare s...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Best Practice / Lessons Learned

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05 July 2016

LEGACY REPORT: Planning and Implementing Rural Adaptation Initiatives in the Lower Mekong

USAID Mekong ARCC worked with implementing partners to identify the environmental, economic, and social effects of climate change in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB), and to assist highly exposed and vulnerable rural populations in ec...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus / Communication and Awareness

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam

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