Publications

30 April 2016

Lessons from Implementing Adaptation Plans in the Lower Mekong Basin

After two-year effort to strengthen community adaptation capacity to the negative impacts of climate change, USAID Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (USAID Mekong ARCC) project engaged World Resources Institute Vu...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Best Practice / Lessons Learned

Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Southeast Asia

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11 March 2016

6 Things to Know about Urban Adaptation

One of the ways USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific supports the region is by designing and implementing standalone capacity building programs targeted specifically at government officials. Responding to regional capacity building needs, inc...

THEMES : Urban Areas and Infrastructure

PUBLICATION TYPE : Best Practice / Lessons Learned

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31 January 2016

Analyzing the Economic Costs and Benefits of CCA Options

The fourth publication in the USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific Adaptation Finance Knowledge Series presents the methodology used in the Pacific Cost-Benefit Analysis Initiative (P-CBA) training workshops, accompanied by examples from the...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus / Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Best Practice / Lessons Learned

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05 December 2015

The 10th Exchange Series “Effective Capacity Building for Accessing Climate Finance” E-Discussion Report

Participants, including government officials and climate finance experts, of the USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific supported 10th Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) Exchange Series agreed that countries need to build up their skills to...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

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30 November 2015

The Adaptation Finance Gap Update

In 2014 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) published its first global Adaptation Gap Report (AGR 2014) (UNEP, 2014), which put forward a preliminary framework for assessing adaptation gaps along with an initial assess...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

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30 November 2015

Emerging Climate Change Adaptation Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region

This report aims to fill a need for the latest thinking on climate change adaptation (CCA) in the Asia-Pacific region, thus the members of the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN)* produced this report titled Emerging Climate Ch...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Report / Paper

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30 November 2015

NAP Process and Actions (10 Case studies and Lessons in the Asia-Pacific Region)

A variety of stakeholders in developing countries have greatly contributed to mainstreaming adaptation into national development strategies/ plans in different ways (national adaptation planning (NAP) process) as well as implement...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus

PUBLICATION TYPE : Best Practice / Lessons Learned

Bangladesh, Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Pacific, South Asia

23 November 2015

Ten principles to help assess funding for local climate adaptation

Escalating climate change impacts are intensifying the need for local communities to adapt. But it is not known how much adaptation finance is flowing down to local activities, and there has been little debate on what ‘high-qualit...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Policy Brief / Strategy Brief

28 October 2015

The Role of Technical Assistance in Mobilizing Climate Finance – Insights From GIZ Programs

International development assistance can play an important role in mobilizing additional public and private climate finance for keeping global warming below 2 degrees and helping developing countries in their efforts to adapt to c...

THEMES : Financing Adaptation

PUBLICATION TYPE : Best Practice / Lessons Learned

21 October 2015

Empowering the Poor in a Changing Climate: Experiences from UNDP Supported Initiatives on Adaptation

UNDP has been working during the last decade to support countries to transition to green, inclusive, climate-resilient development paths. More than US$790 million in grant financing from the Global Environment Facility-managed Lea...

THEMES : Adaptation Strategies / Adaptation-Mitigation Nexus / Gender and Social Impacts

PUBLICATION TYPE : Best Practice / Lessons Learned

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