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ID: 007
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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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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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ID: 011
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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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ID: 015
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Climate Resilient Infrastructure Services: Increasing the
Climate Resilience of Infrastructure in Developing Countries
August 2014
CCRD Program(s): Climate Resilient Infrastructure
Services (CRIS), Climate-resilient Development Framework, Fast Track
Implementation, Small Grants
Description: This fact sheet provides an overview of USAID’s CRIS program and its
work in five rapidly growing pilot cities that are vulnerable to climate risks:
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Piura, Perú; Trujillo, Perú; Nacala-Porto,
Mozambique; and Hue, Vietnam. CRIS enables municipal decision-makers to
identify, prioritize, and implement adaptation strategies for infrastructure
projects to save lives and protect long-term investments. CRIS activities
include assessing vulnerability, screening adaptation options, writing
proposals for external funding, using decision-support tools for infrastructure
planning, and supporting training and peer-learning events. USAID also provides
small grants for developing and testing
innovative approaches to improve resilience in cities.
Related
Topics: Adaptation
research, Africa, Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, coastal, infrastructure, water
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ID: 001
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Climate Services: Better Information for Climate-resilient Decision
Making
November 2013
CCRD Program(s): Climate Services, Small Grants
Description: This factsheet describes CCRD projects that foster development and
promote effective use of climate services:
USAID participation in the Climate Services Partnership (CSP); support
of SERVIR, a global satellite network for climate information; cooperation on
drought forecasting in Jamaica; evaluations of climate services programs; and an
evaluation of a model climate services program in Mali. Climate services deliver
timely, tailored, decision-relevant information so that people in developing
countries can manage current climate variability, build resilience to future
climate change, and reduce impacts on agriculture, infrastructure, health, and
other sectors.
Related Topics: Adaptive practice/behavior, disaster response,
research, extreme weather events, temperature changes, precipitation changes,
Africa, Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, agriculture
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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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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
ID: 044 |
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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