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Today, our paper on #adaptation projects leading to increased #vulnerability is out in World Development.
You can access it for free here: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0305750X20305118
The article is the result of 2 years of work with 20 authors led by @sirieriksen7 @noragric
You can access it for free here: https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0305750X20305118
The article is the result of 2 years of work with 20 authors led by @sirieriksen7 @noragric
Rather than reducing vulnerability to climate change, many adaptation interventions are found to reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability. We focussed on funded interventions in developing countries made under the rubric of climate resilient development.
3 key issues are responsible (1) shallow understandings of what drives vulnerability in specific locations in project design (2) not involving local people in design and implementation & (3) retrofitting adaptation into existing development projects.
We examined 33 projects and concluded that these challenges can be overcome by engaging more deeply with the local vulnerability contexts as well as with global contexts and drivers of vulnerability.
These findings have implications for use of climate #finance to enable more effective and equitable adaptation.
Does it even makes sense to argue for more adaptation finance when we are designing adaptation projects so badly that they are leading to making people even worse off?
Does it even makes sense to argue for more adaptation finance when we are designing adaptation projects so badly that they are leading to making people even worse off?
Unless adaptation is rethought, calls for #transformation are likely to repeat the same patterns that worsen vulnerability to climate change.
We found that what can be seen in the adaptation examples echos many of the failures in development projects over the last few decades, and thus the critiques directed at development aid are equally pertinent for adaptation programming to consider.
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