Adaptation Tools
Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment
(CVCA) - Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment
Toolkit
Sponsor
Scale/Location
CARE
Community-focus, multi-
International
scalar assessment
Community-based Risk Screening Tool Adaptation and Livelihoods (CRISTAL) - Project
InterCooperation
Community
assessment and decision support tool
Climate Change and Environmental Degradation
Risk and Adaptation Assessment (CEDRA) Project assessment and decision support tool, aid in
TearFund
Southern NGOs
access to information
Adaptive Capacity Benchmarking -Assess
organizational capacities & change strategies
EU, ESPACE
Child-oriented Participatory Risk Assessment &
Asian Disaster
Planning (COPRAP) - Risk assessment, strengths &
Preparedness
weaknesses
Center (ADPC)
Systemic Approach to Rural Development
Swiss Agency for
(SARD) - Livelihood assessment, planning, project
Development
assessment
and Cooperation
Organizations, Western
Europe
Framework
Methods
Learning
Organized around four categories of 'enabling factors': climate-
Secondary research, policy analysis, key informant
Makes an explicit statement and emphasis on
resilient livelihoods, DRR, local capacity development,
interviews, participatory methods at the
learning by creating a dialogue across scales
underlying causes of vulnerability.
community/household level
and with multiple stakeholders
2 modules - synthesizing information and planning and
managing projects.
Possible methods include stakeholder consultations,
participatory workshops, site visits, document
review, Internet research, and interviews.
Does not include a specific component of
learning, but instead serves as an evaluation
and decision making tool for project planners
and partners.
Final Outcome
Other Notes
Inform and strengthen adaptation planning processes by
Conducted separately for men and
providing context-specific information
women
Devises adjustments to improve how projects impact the
livelihood resources important to adaptation or suggest
projects that better reduce climate risks.
Excel program, requires computer data
entry
Identify hazards from community and science info., prioritize
Scientific information assessment, points of contact
Experiential learning and social learning
Modified and newly agreed adaptation activities, improved
Unique emphasis on how NGOs
hazards, select appropriate adaptation options, consider new
for information, Tools from PADR, matrix
integral to the tool, some mention of an
understanding of climate change context and relation to
understand climate change to assist
projects, monitor and evaluate
assessment, process completed through report
iterative process
environmental degradation
their communities
Document review and interviews, variations on
Learning as a pathway for change, possibilities
Recommendations for organizational improvement and
interviews like card sorting
for transformational learning as an outcome
climate change action plans
No learning component included
Devise risk reduction solutions pertinent to children
-
Social learning process identified, iterative
Vision statement, Assist in the design and re-orientation of
Well explained and comprehensive
framework
development interventions
toolkit
Based on 6 response levels (ex. stakeholder responsive,
efficient management) and 9 pathways for change (ex.
leadership, awareness)
Provides examples of metrics and
baselines for change
6 new tools - ‘Make me a Portrait' ‘Dangerous
Children
Series of possible methods, no clear framework
Things'; ‘My Needs Before, During and After the
Flood'; ‘Our Suggestions to Those in Authority.'
Community/Local
Government
3-levels: household livelihoods, typology of households &
Mapping, household typology, access to services,
relationships with other stakeholders, landscape and local
power/conflict analysis, outcome mapping, vision
history
development, planning
Tools vary per level: PRA tools in the community,
Participatory Vulnerability Assessment (PVA) Vulnerability assessment tool
ActionAid
Multi-level (community,
3 phases - preparation, analytical framework, multi-levelled
interview emphasis at other levels, recordings
district, national)
analysis
&video, not detailed since based on another tool
No explicit learning component
Reveals causes of vulnerability, increases effectiveness of
emergency and development activities
Promotes international level feedback
(REFLECT)
Participatory Capacities & Vulnerabilities
Assessment (PCVA) - Vulnerability and coping
Oxfam
Community
assessment
Community-based Disaster Risk Management
Asian Disaster
(CBDRM) - Risk assessment and management
Preparedness
development
Center (ADPC)
Community
Participatory Assessment of Disaster Risk
(PADR) - Vulnerability and capacity assessment,
Tearfund
Capacity and vulnerability assessment with participatory rural
Participatory rural appraisal tools (mapping,
appraisal - perceptions, coping, response, development
matrices, ranking, Venn diagram, etc)
7 step process - selection, rapport building, assessment,
planning, organization, implementation, monitoring/evaluation
Participatory rural appraisal tools (mapping,
matrices, ranking, etc), secondary sources,
visioning/planning, social network analysis
Key steps: preparation, hazard assessment, vulnerability
Participatory rural appraisal tools (mapping,
assessment, capacity assessment, key informant interviews,
matrices, ranking, Venn diagram, etc), modified
action planning
sustainable livelihoods approach (assets)
3 Phases - preparatory groundwork (1-2 months), risk
Aerial photography, secondary sources, rapid
assessment (3-5 days), generate disaster risk reduction plans
appraisal tools, risk management capacities matrix,
Community-focus, multi-
3 steps: Livelihood Baseline (LB); an Initial Livelihood Impact
Secondary sources, qualitative/statistical
scalar assessment
Appraisal (ILIA), Detailed Livelihood Assessment (DLA)
information, participatory rural appraisal tools,
Community
action planning
Social learning process identified
Small mention of social learning qualities,
emphasis on risk communication
Information presented to government and other
stakeholders, strategic planning (proposals), advocacy tool
Creation of Community Disaster Risk Management
Organization (CDMO) and implementation of management
plan
Social learning process identified
Action planning and advocacy
Social learning process identified
Integrated disaster risk management - strategic planning
Good facilitation input
Emphasis on risk communication and
gender
Mention climate change & HIV/AIDS
utility
Disaster
Weathering the Storm - Risk assessment and
planning
Mitigation for
Sustainable
Informal settlements
Livelihoods
Great explanation of methods with
pictures
Programme
Livelihood Assessment Toolkit (LAT) coping/response strategies, impact,
IFO, FAO
No learning component included
Each step informs the next leading to various plans and
Comprehensive in scale of analysis and
actions within the pre- or post- disaster context
inclusion of statistical information