Checklist for adaptation good practices

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Draft v1: Checklist for Adaptation Good Practices Adaptation Learning Programme, July 2016 Introduction Climate change impacts involve three defining features that are not always a part of other development challenges: they are diverse, both short- and long-term and not easily predictable. Adapting to these three traits is difficult because they require making context-specific and forward-looking plans regarding a variety of local climate impacts, risks and vulnerabilities when the future is highly uncertain. Adaptive capacity is central to building resilience and involves developing processes and capacities which enable continued response to a changing and uncertain climate over time. Against this background, there is need to reflect on and develop standards for good practice that financial decision makers, policy-makers, programme designers and practitioners in the climate change adaptation arena can take into account to ensure vulnerable people, communities, institutions and systems are able to continuously adapt effectively and sustainably to the ever-changing and uncertain future.

Purpose of the checklist The objective of this Adaptation Good Practice (AGP) checklist is to guide and ensure that actions proposed as adaptation do result in long term effective impact. The checklist is for use in the context of designing and deciding financial support to policy, projects, programmes and all other types of initiatives which focus on adaptation specifically or in which climate resilience is mainstreamed. The checklist presents nine practices which should feature in such initiatives in order to qualify as adaptation to climate change. The checklist and its use are described, including a practical scoring method for use by proposal development teams, adaptation financiers and adaptation practitioners to screen concepts, proposals and implementation plans for their incorporation of and compliance with adaptation good practices. The development of the AGP checklist is in response to ensuring effective adaptation at local, national and regional level as enshrined in the global commitment by Parties to the UNFCCC in the Paris Agreement. Parties also agreed to increase financial flows for adaptation to climate change through a range of bilateral, multilateral and direct and international access mechanisms. Countries in Africa are committed to Nationally Determined Contributions and associated National Adaptation Plans which will frame the development of adaptation programmes to be financed through the Adaptation Fund (AF), Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other mechanisms. Procedures to govern access modalities to the AF and GCF funds have been established with well-developed institutional safeguards, fiduciary and procedural requirements, and readiness programmes to support countries and institutions to strengthen their capacity and prepare proposals. The GCF Concept Note Users guide (2015), the GCF Readiness Programme resources and other GCF literature highlight a number of issues that should be incorporated to reflect good practices, including eight environmental and social safeguards. However, in regard to adaptation, criteria to provide easy to follow guidance on what makes for effective adaptation and adaptation impacts are yet to be clarified or elaborated. Demands for capacity building on applying adaptation in practice are growing. The AGP checklist is an initial effort to fill this gap and demonstrate the adaptation specific practices that are needed to achieve results in a form that can be systematically applied during concept and proposal design and evaluation.

Some important perspectives to inform adaptation.

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