PDF, Fact Sheet, 702 KB, 2 pps
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Adaptation Partnership: USAID Supports
Climate Change Adaptation through Knowledge Exchange, Collaboration and
Implementation
November 2013
CCRD Program(s): Adaptation
Partnership, Climate Resilient Infrastructure Services (CRIS), Climate Services,
High Mountains Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP), Small Grants
Description: This fact sheet
presents information on USAID’s Adaptation Partnership, a global coalition
founded in 2010 to share information and lessons learned about climate change
adaptation. USAID supported 10 regional capacity-building Adaptation
Partnership workshops in Africa, Asia, and Latin America on climate change
vulnerability and adaptation issues related to food security, climate services,
urban climate resilience, coastal and marine protected areas, and high-mountain
glacial regions. Outcomes of the workshops included: (1) communities of
practice (CoP) to facilitate communication and collaboration on climate
services, glacial retreat, and climate resilient agriculture, (2) scientific
research and technical analyses to learn more about climate change issues,
including glacial lake formation and the economic value of climate services;
and (3) small-grant programs with $25,000 to $550,000 awards.
Related Topics: Glacial events, Afghanistan/Pakistan,
Africa, Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, agriculture, coastal, water
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PDF, Workshop Report, 25.9 MB, 235pps
ID: 057, B2 | Andean-Asian Mountains Global Knowledge Exchange: On
Glaciers, Glacial Lakes, Water and Hazard Management: An Adaptation
Partnership Workshop
CCRD Program(s): Adaptation Partnership, High Mountains Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP)
Description:
This report presents the findings from a series of Adaptation
Partnership workshops about glaciers, glacial lakes, and water and
hazard management in the Andes and in several Asian mountain regions.
The workshop series began with a field expedition to Nepal’s Imja
Glacial Lake; participants focused on knowledge exchange and
collaboration. A knowledge-sharing workshop was next, in which
participants discussed the physical and human dimensions of glacial
recession, glacial lakes, and water supply. The final workshop was a
writers workshop aimed at capturing the experiences, lessons learned,
and recommendations that emerged from the field expedition and
knowledge-sharing workshop. The primary goal of the field expedition and
follow-on workshops was to catalyze, facilitate, and accelerate
interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration among scientists,
practitioners, and policy makers from the Andes, the Hindu Kush-Himalaya
(HKH) region, and Central Asia. This report also contains many papers
from the workshops.
Related Topics: Adaptation research, disaster response, glacial events, Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, water
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ID: 060, B2 | Climate Change Resilient Development
CCRD Program(s): Adaptation Partnership, Climate Services, National Adaptation Planning and Implementation
Description:
This fact sheet provides an overview of USAID's CCRD project, as
envisioned at the beginning of the project. CCRD activities increase the
resilience of people, assets, and livelihoods to climate change impacts
by integrating adaptation strategies into the broader development
agenda and inducing donors, governments, and the private sector to
invest in cost-effective adaptive strategies. The CCRD program focuses
on three areas, providing: 1) support to USAID Bureaus and Missions
through the development and dissemination of guidance, training, and
capacity-building to strengthen the agency’s portfolio of adaptation
projects, as well as the mainstreaming of climate concerns into other
programs and projects; 2) coordination and support for activities
related to U.S. Government climate change programs, including the
Adaptation Partnership and Partnership Workshops programs; and 3)
technical leadership in emerging areas of climate vulnerability and
adaptation that need further innovation, including glaciers and
mountains, climate services, and climate-resilient long-term planning.
Related Topics:
Extreme weather events, glacial events, precipitation changes, sea
level rise, temperature changes, agriculture, coastal, health,
infrastructure, water
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PDF, Fact Sheet, 649 KB, 2 pps
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The Climate Change Resilient Development Project: Integrating Climate
into the Development Decision-making Process
May 2014
CCRD Program(s): Adaptation Partnership, Climate-resilient Development
Framework, Climate Services, High Mountains Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP),
Small Grants
Description: USAID stresses the importance of integrating climate into the
development decision-making process. This fact sheet summarizes the purpose and
key activities of the USAID CCRD project. It also presents a diagram explaining
the five stages of the CCRD framework (i.e., Scope, Assess, Design, Implement,
and Evaluate).
Related Topics: Extreme weather events, glacial events, Africa,
Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, agriculture
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PDF, Fact Sheet, 109 KB, 2 pps
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Climate Resilient Development: Building
Climate Resilience to Safeguard Development Gains
2013
CCRD Program(s): Climate-resilient Development Framework,
High Mountains Adaptation Partnership
Description: This fact sheet
provides an overview of USAID's work to help developing countries build their
resilience to climate change today and in the future, which will help protect
current development gains and future development outcomes. The fact sheet
discusses how USAID supports (1) access to science and analysis for
decision-making by focusing on climate services, which produce, interpret,
share, and use knowledge about climate and weather to support decision-making,
policy, and planning; (2) effective governance systems, assisting partner countries
to take leadership roles on adaptation as they plan for development; and (3)
climate resilience, creating new tools to help developing countries implement
adaptation measures quickly and effectively.
Related Topics: Adaptive practice/behavior, disaster response,
extreme weather events, glacial events, precipitation changes, sea
level rise, temperature changes, Africa, Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, agriculture, coastal, tourism, water
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PDF, Fact Sheet, 2.5 MB, 2 pps
ID:002
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Climber-Scientist Grants Promote Climate
Resilience in the High Mountains
November 2013
CCRD Program(s): Climate-resilient
Development Framework, High Mountains Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP), Local
Adaptation Planning and Implementation, Small grants
Description: The Climber-Scientist
Small Grants program provides field-based, hands-on research
opportunities to scientists and practitioners working in high mountain regions.
This fact sheet summarizes eleven grants that USAID awarded in July 2012. The
focus of the grants ranges from developing a framework for climate-resilient
development and adaptation to address climate change risks to producing a
feature-length film to document the complex relationships among local
communities in three regions of Nepal.
Related Topics: Adaptive
practice/behavior, disaster response, adaptation research, extreme weather events, glacial
events, Afghanistan/Pakistan, Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, agriculture, natural resources management, tourism, water
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PDF, Workshop Report, 533 KB, 7pps
ID: 050, B2 | Glacial Flooding and Disaster Risk Management: Knowledge Exchange and Field Training Workshop
August 2013
CCRD Program(s): High Mountains Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP)
Description:
This report presents the findings of the third international workshop
of the High Mountains Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP), "Glacial Flooding
and Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Exchange and Field Training." The
workshop took place in various locations in the Peruvian Cordillera
Blanca mountain range. Presenters offered key HiMAP research results and
provided training modules on new field methods in the high-mountain
sciences, including ground penetrating radar demonstrations at Pastoruri
glacier, conflict-resolution methods at Parón Glacial Lake, and new
systems for developing local adaptation management plans in the Quilcay
watershed above Huaraz. During the workshop, participants voted to
change the name to HiMAP; it was previously called the High Mountain
Glacier Watershed Program (HMGWP). A film of the workshop is available
as a series of short videos available on the HiMAP website.
Related Topics: Glacial events, Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, water
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PDF, Technical Report, 20.1 MB, 80 pps
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The
Glacial Lake Handbook: Reducing Risk from Dangerous Glacial Lakes in the
Cordillera Blanca, Peru
February 2014
CCRD Program(s): High Mountains
Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP)
Description: Climate change, population
growth, and increased development increase the potential risk of glacial
lake outburst floods (GLOFs) on
nearby high mountain communities in Peru and elsewhere. This report presents a
series of case studies and lessons learned by Peruvian engineers who have more
than 70 years of experience with glacial lake management methods, mostly in the
Peruvian Cordillera Blanca mountain range. The report also provides an overview
of glaciers, glacial lakes, and management practices.
Related Topics: Disaster response, protection, glacial
events, temperature changes, water
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PDF, Fact Sheet, 369 KB, 2 pps
ID:003
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The High Mountains Adaptation Partnership: Helping High-Mountain
Communities Adapt to Climate Change
November
2013
CCRD Program(s): High Mountains Adaptation Partnership
(HiMAP), Small Grants
Description: This
fact sheet describes USAID’s High Mountains Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP). This
partnership helps communities work together to strengthen adaptation planning
capacity, knowledge-sharing, and research capabilities related to
climate-resilient development and disaster risk management in the glaciated
regions of Perú, Nepal, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Bhutan, and other mountainous
countries. HiMAP supports Local Adaptation Plans for Action (LAPAs) in Perú and
Nepal, an international Community of Practice (CoP), the Climber-Scientist
Small Grants program, and important scientific research on climate
change threats such as glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) and glacial
retreat.
Related Topics: Adaptation research,
glacial events, temperature changes, Afghanistan/Pakistan, Asia, Latin
America/Caribbean, water
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Website
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High Mountains Adaptation
Partnership Website
CCRD Program(s): High Mountains Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP),
Small Grants
Description: The High Mountains
Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP) website provides information on the range of
research, events, and workshops related to high-mountain glacial watersheds,
including links to the Climber-Scientist Small Grants Program. The mission of HiMAP is to
provide information to raise global awareness of the importance of
high-mountain glacial watersheds. HiMAP strives to share knowledge with and
create new opportunities between previously disconnected scientists and
practitioners. HiMAP supports a new generation of climber-scientists who
understand climate change, adaptation issues, research methods, and action
projects in high-mountain watersheds. HiMAP works to engage local community
knowledge, as well as international climate science expertise, to achieve this
goal. HiMAP also works to strengthen scientific, social, and institutional
capacity for the management of dangerous glacial lakes in Perú and Nepal.
Related Topics: Glacial events, precipitation changes, Africa,
Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, water
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