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Adapting to Climate Change and enhancing Resilience

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ACTIVITY INFORMATION
What we did

The impacts of climate change are already a measurable reality and if not addressed head-on immediately, will significantly exacerbate current challenges faced by local governments such as poverty, water and sanitation issues, access to energy and job security. In doing so, they will create new challenges, making it more difficult for local governments to become sustainable and climate resilient in the long term. Achieving sustainability and climate resiliency requires local governments to adapt to climate change. Both they and their citizens stand to gain far more by starting to adapt today, rather than waiting or not taking action at all. The Adapting to climate Change and Enhancing Resilience training course, developed by ICLEI Africa and funded by WIOMSA, was designed to build adaptive capacity and resilience to the impacts of climate change in coastal urban areas throughout the (West Indian Ocean) WIO region, specifically focusing on Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, South Africa and Mauritius.

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How we tracked

(1) Improve knowledge of climate change and how climate change impacts could be minimised through effective planning; and improve knowledge on the importance of coastal natural assets for improving the adaptive capacity and resilience of cities allocated along the coast; (2) Provide an overview of successful methodologies on how to develop climate change adaptation plans (CCAPs); (3) Support each city through the process of designing content to inform the development of their own skeleton CCAPs which specifically includes a coastal focus; (4) Transfer knowledge and skills to capacitate participating stakeholders throughout the course to not only train their fellow city stakeholders but facilitate and lead a course with their own city stakeholders to finalise their skeleton CCAP; and lastly: (5) Provide the space throughout the course for discussion, reflection and learning; and facilitate vertical and horizontal dialogues around coastal adaptation and resilience to build effective partnerships for future collaboration.

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What we achieved

The main objectives of the course were to: (1) Improve knowledge of climate change and how climate change impacts could be minimised through effective planning; and improve knowledge on the importance of coastal natural assets for improving the adaptive capacity and resilience of cities allocated along the coast; (2) Provide an overview of successful methodologies on how to develop climate change adaptation plans (CCAPs); (3) Support each city through the process of designing content to inform the development of their own skeleton CCAPs which specifically includes a coastal focus; (4) Transfer knowledge and skills to capacitate participating stakeholders throughout the course to not only train their fellow city stakeholders but facilitate and lead a course with their own city stakeholders to finalise their skeleton CCAP; and lastly: (5) Provide the space throughout the course for discussion, reflection and learning; and facilitate vertical and horizontal dialogues around coastal adaptation and resilience to build effective partnerships for future collaboration.

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Related ICLEI Pathways
  • Nature-based development
  • Resilient development
Related SDGs
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ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENHANCING RESILIENCE – A GUIDE TO BUILDING ADAPTIVE CAPACITY AND RESILIENCE TO THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN COASTAL URBAN AREAS
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