Adapting to climate change: an assessment of local adaptation planning processes in forest-based communities in Nepal

Silwal, Pratigya; Roberts, Lin; Rennie, Hamish; Lexer, Manfred J.

doi:10.1080/17565529.2019.1586634

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“…This inauspicious situation has been documented in other studies of the LAPA process (e.g. Silwal et al 2019), and points to the importance of power dynamics in shaping the implementation of planned adaptations (Few et al 2007). Furthermore, some have argued that local adaptation planning efforts have tended to focus on addressing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change per se without addressing the wider social context within which susceptibility to harm emerges (Ensor et al 2019;Ojha et al 2016).…”

Section: Progress In Meeting Adaptation Needsmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…This innovative model for supporting local adaptation action has been emulated in other mountainous countries such as India, Pakistan, Kenya, and Tanzania (Maharjan 2019). Nepal's LAPA programme provides a formal framework for identifying local adaptation needs, integrating sub-national priorities into national-level adaptation planning, and, in turn, accessing support to implement local-level adaptations (Silwal et al 2019); it receives major implementation support from the Nepal Climate Change Support Programme (NCCSP) (Vij et al 2019). These efforts were complemented by subsequent policies aimed at facilitating the integration of climate concerns into broader development plans and programmes (see NPC Fig.…”

Section: The Architecture Of Unfccc Adaptation Initiativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From needs to actions: prospects for planned adaptations in high mountain communities

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Adaptation needs in high mountain communities are increasingly well documented, yet most efforts to address these needs continue to befall mountain people who have contributed little to the problem of climate change. This situation represents a contravention of accepted norms of climate justice and calls attention to the need for better understanding of prospects for externally resourced adaptation initiatives in high mountain areas. In response, this paper examines the architecture of formal adaptation support mechanisms organized through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and how such mechanisms might help to meet adaptation needs in high mountain communities. It outlines key global adaptation initiatives organized through the UNFCCC, clarifies idealized linkages between these global adaptation initiatives and meeting local adaptation needs, and evaluates actual progress in connecting such support with discrete adaptation needs in the upper Manaslu region of Nepal. The paper then critically examines observed shortcomings in matching adaptation support organized through the UNFCCC with local adaptation needs, including complications stemming from the bureaucratic nature of formal adaptation support mechanisms, the intervening role of the state in delivering aid, and the ways in which these complexities intersect with the specific socio-cultural contexts of mountain communities. It concludes by highlighting several prospects for increasing the quantity and quality of adaptation support to mountain communities. These opportunities are considered alongside several salient concerns about formal adaptation support mechanisms in an effort to provide a well-rounded assessment of the prospects for planned adaptations in high mountain communities.

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Section: Progress In Meeting Adaptation Needsmentioning

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From needs to actions: prospects for planned adaptations in high mountain communities

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“…Indigenous knowledge provides insights on how the community dealt with climate change in the past and also what to do in the future [29][30][31]. Moreover, indigenous knowledge creates an instrumental reason for developing transformation techniques to CBA [23].…”

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“…Funding plays a key role in CBA implementation [7,24,36]. The increasing of funding is urgently needed to support the CBA project [31]. Research in 20 communities in Pacific Islands shows that the locally funded CBA shows better results than internationally funded CBA [13].…”

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Community-Based Adaptation: Challenge and Opportunity in Indonesia

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Climate change is a serious problem mostly caused by human activities but the impacts are felt by all creatures in the word. These conditions are worsened by the rise of ‘dirty industries’ that exceed the environmental carrying capacity. Many studies had showed that people need to do something to cut climate change from individual to state scale. Therefore, community plays an important role to climate change program’s success. It is known as community-based adaptation (CBA). CBA combines indigenous knowledge, community needs, and local conditions so the program is more likely to implement. In Indonesia, climate change adaptation and mitigation are run in community level namely ProKlim. Government also gives the best practiced community with title and prizes. This paper aims to identify and synthesize previous researches related to CBA and challenge and opportunity of CBA practices in Indonesia. The findings of this paper are CBA is proven in shaping resilience on disaster management, aquaculture, food, and water. Moreover, indigenous knowledge, local leader, funding, and government involvement are the important instrument of CBA. Despite the numerous reports on CBA succeed, there are still some challenge and opportunity of CBA practices in Indonesia.

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“…They depicted how a technocratic framing of climate change vulnerability and adaptation reinforced the design of the NAPA and other climate policies. Silwal et al [34] analyzed the adaptation planning process in forest-based communities in Nepal. Paudel et al [35] highlighted the advantage of marginalized communities in planning and implementation of adaptation actions.…”

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Do National Policies Translate into Local Actions? Analyzing Coherence between Climate Change Adaptation Policies and Implications for Local Adaptation in Nepal

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Sunam

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National climate change policy and strategies set out a framework for planning and undertaking climate change adaptation as well as mitigation activities at the national and local levels. In this article, we examine the coherence and contradictions between national policies and plans, and its impacts on the implementation of adaptation measures at the local level. We undertook a content review of key climate change policy documents (n = 4) of Nepal. In addition, we conducted a field study in the Rajdevi Community Forest User Group (CFUG) located in the mid-hills of Nepal, which has developed and implemented a community level adaptation plan of action (CAPA). The field study involved household interviews, focus group discussions, and an in-depth analysis of CAPA implementation. The paper found that while policies are coherent for targeting highly affected areas and communities, they deviate from discerning an appropriate planning and implanting unit. The local adaptation plan of action (LAPA) considers the local government as an implementing unit, while the national adaptation program of action (NAPA) puts an emphasis on the local community groups. It suggests that the existing LAPA implementation breaches the provision of community-level institutions for the implementation conceived in the central framework. Despite little attention to promoting food security in climate change policy, through the CAPA, local communities have planned and implemented adaptation measures envisioned in the thematic areas identified in the climate change policy of Nepal: agriculture and food security; forests and biodiversity; water resources and energy; climate-induced disasters; public health; and urban settlements and infrastructure. Nevertheless, the CAPA is not institutionalized under government policies and the institutional framework as a local level implementing unit. So, the consensus for a local implementing unit in the policies has remained a key issue. We suggest identifying a suitable and acceptable unit for implementing climate change adaptation at the community level. Only if an appropriate implementing unit is identified can the policies be successful with a broader acceptance and desirable outcomes enshrined in the climate change policy.

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Adapting to climate change: an assessment of local adaptation planning processes in forest-based communities in Nepal

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

From needs to actions: prospects for planned adaptations in high mountain communities

From needs to actions: prospects for planned adaptations in high mountain communities

Community-Based Adaptation: Challenge and Opportunity in Indonesia

Do National Policies Translate into Local Actions? Analyzing Coherence between Climate Change Adaptation Policies and Implications for Local Adaptation in Nepal

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