Livelihoods for Resilience Activity

Introduction to Climate Vulnerability and

Capacity Analysis (CVCA)

January 29-31, 2018

Addis Ababa
Climate Vulnerability and Capacity
Analysis (CVCA)
CLIMATE VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ANALYSIS (CVCA)

Why?
 To ensure that development programs reduce people’s
vulnerability to climate change we must :
 understand who is vulnerable to its effects and why.
 recognize the critical role that local and national
institutions, as well as public policies, play in shaping
people’s adaptive capacity.
CLIMATE VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ANALYSIS (CVCA)

 CVCA is a methodology that helps us:

 Understand the implications of climate change for the lives and
livelihoods of the people we serve.
 The process builds people’s understanding about climate risks and
adaptation strategies.
 Provides a framework for dialogue within communities, as well as
between communities and other stakeholders.
 The results provide a solid foundation for the identification of practical
strategies to facilitate community-based adaptation to climate change.
CLIMATE VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ANALYSIS (CVCA)

What?

The CVCA methodology provides a framework for analyzing

vulnerability and capacity to adapt to climate change at the
community level.
 CLIMATE VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ANALYSIS (CVCA)

Main Objectives of the CVCA

Analyze vulnerability to climate change and adaptive capacity at the
community level
 Considers vulnerability at different community groups (women,
youth, farmers, pastoralist, agro pastoralist)

Combine community knowledge and scientific data to yield greater

understanding about local impacts of climate change - as the
information gathered from communities serves to build local knowledge
on climate issues and appropriate strategies to adapt.
CLIMATE VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ANALYSIS (CVCA)

Use of the CVCA

It can be used and adapted to gather and analyze

information:
 to design climate change adaptation initiatives;
 to integrate climate change adaptation issues into
livelihoods and natural resource management programs; and

 to provide practical evidence for advocacy on climate

change issues.
CLIMATE VULNERABILITY AND CAPACITY ANALYSIS (CVCA)

Objectives of Integrating Adaptation into Development Projects

 Reducing the risks posed by climate change to project activities,

stakeholders, and results, sometimes referred to as “climate-proofing” -
protecting investments in, and results from, development initiatives

 Ensuring that project activities reduce the vulnerability of target

populations to climate change, through interventions designed to build
their adaptive capacity while achieving development goals.
Adaptation Planning
 ADAPTATION PLANNING
 This is a process in which the community/household identify
adaptation strategies or options that can help them address risks,
mainly climate change related, that are already discussed and
identified through the participatory process – CVCA
 to reduce the negative effects of the identified impacts, both
direct and indirect.
 this may involve undertaking the effective existing options,
strengthening effectiveness of the existing options or doing a
particular strategy differently and new livelihoods activities
 ADAPTATION PLANNING
Steps
 Focus on a particular direct or indirect impact of a hazard
 Identify possible options/strategies to minimize the impacts
 Separate the most urgent and the more longer-term strategies
 Select the urgent strategies that can done as individuals or
households.
 Identify opportunities or existing resources they have that will support
them in implementing the strategies.
 Select the urgent strategies that would require collective actions
 Identify a strategy how the collective actions could be mobilized
 Look in to additional support the community might need to implement
the individual, household or collective actions.
CONDUCTING CVCA AND ADAPTATION PLANNING
AT DIFFERENT LEVELS
Community-Level Climate Change
Analysis
WHY COMMUNITY-LEVEL CLIMATE CHANGE ANALYSIS

?
 OBJECTIVES OF THE ANALYSIS IN GRAD-2

• The community-level climate change analysis has three objectives:

o Understand vulnerability to current climate-related hazards
o Build awareness of climate change trends and future
projections
o Identify adaptation options for communities
 QUESTIONS ON CONTEXT
• What are the most important livelihood resources for women and
men?

• What are the most important hazards affecting livelihoods of

women and men?

• What are the impacts of these hazards on livelihoods?

• How are people currently responding to these impacts?

 QUESTIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE

• What changes in the climate/environment have communities

observed?

• What are the opportunities and barriers for adaptation?

 AIMS OF THE PROCESS
• Validate community observations of climate change

• Introduce future projections

• Emphasize increasing uncertainty

• Make existing livelihood strategies more climate-resilient

• Identify new, climate-resilient livelihood strategies

• Build adaptive capacity

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ANALYSIS PROCESS

• Participatory
• Gender-disaggregated
 Women in female headed and male-headed
households
 Men and women together
 Men
• Action-oriented and empowering
Tools to be Used in Community-Level
Climate Change Analysis
 PARTICIPATORY TOOLS

 Hazard Mapping
 Impact Chains
 Seasonal Calendar
 Historical Timeline
 Vulnerability Matrix
 Adaptation planning
 HAZARD MAP
• Initial identification of important
livelihood resources
• Initial identification of hazards
affecting the community (both
climate-related and other)
• Identification of response
strategies for identified hazards
VULNERABILITY MATRIX

• Identification of priority hazards

• Prioritization of important livelihood
resources
• Analysis of impact of hazards on
most important livelihood resources
 HISTORICAL TIMELINE
• Identification of important events in
the community
• Analysis of hazard trends
• Community observations of
changing hazard trends
 SEASONAL CALENDAR
• Identification of important livelihood activities
• Analysis of seasonal changes in activities
• Community observations of changing trends in seasonal patterns
 SEASONAL CALENDAR
Seasonal activities/events Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Land preparation                        
Start of rain                         
End of rain                         
Sawing for major crops                          
Weeding                           
Harvesting for major crops                          

Pest/disease occurrence                          
Use of fertilizer                        
High labor demand                        
Labor shortage                        
High price of staple/consumable                        
crops
Low price of staple/consumable                        
crops
High price of Livestock                        
Low price of livestock                        
High price Agri. Inputs(i.e seed,                        
fertilizer,hand tools etc

Low price Agri. Inputs(i.e seed,                        

fertilizer,hand tools etc

SWC structures work                        

Biological SWC works(like plantation                        
of seedling)

                         
 IMPACT CHAINS
• Analysis of direct and
indirect impacts of hazards
on livelihoods

• Identification of existing
response strategies

• Identification of
opportunities and barriers
for adaptation
ADAPTATION PLANNING
• Identification of
adaptation pathways for
different climate
scenarios
• Analysis of information
needs and decision-
making process
 The Community-Level Climate
Change Analysis or CVCA Facilitation
Manual
 THE FACILITATION MANUAL

• Overview of analytical framework

• Guidance on planning the field work
• Facilitation tips
• Facilitation Guides for each of the six tools
• Report Formats for each of the six tools
• Summary report format
 ANALYZING THE DATA

• Data is compiled to answer the analysis questions in a

summary report format
• Examines differences between the different focus
groups
• Analyzes their relative vulnerability
• Documents their observations of climate change
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