Integrating social protection and climate change adaptation: A review

Tenzing, Janna

doi:10.1002/wcc.626

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“…From earlier reviews (e.g. Béné et al 2018;Tenzing 2020) it is clear that most work to date linking social assistance (and social protection more broadly) and climate resilience focuses on anticipatory and absorptive capacities (i.e. the short term shock-responsive concerns), with less attention to longer-term concerns around adaptive capacity, in particular transformative capacities.…”

Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

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Climate Resilience and Social Assistance in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings

Næss¹,

Selby²,

Daoust³

2022

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This paper aims to improve our understanding of the nature, causes, and multiple dimensions of how social assistance may address climate vulnerability and resilience within fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCAS), as part of the inception phase of the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research programme. Over recent years, social assistance, such as cash transfers and voucher programmes, has been seen as a way of reducing the impacts of climate-related shocks and stressors, and of increasing the resilience of recipient households and communities. It has also been seen as a mechanism for delivering adaptation funding, showing promise in tackling short-term shocks as well as longer-term adaptation to climate change. Yet despite FCAS hosting some of the most vulnerable populations in the world, so far there has been little attention to these settings. We examine the linkages between social assistance and climate resilience in FCAS and in turn, implications for BASIC Research. Specifically, we ask what the evidence is on whether existing approaches to social assistance are appropriate to reducing climate vulnerabilities and building climate resilience in FCAS, and, if not, how they might be reformed. We address this through three sub-questions. First, what are the major conceptual discussions on climate resilience and social assistance, and what is the extent of work in FCAS? This is addressed in section 2.1, based on an extensive literature review. Second, to what extent does the literature on social assistance and climate resilience apply to the particular concerns of FCAS? This is covered in section 2.2, based on a framework informed by work in political economy and political ecology. Third, what are possible future research directions? We conclude with reflections on what BASIC Research may contribute in section 3.

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Climate Resilience and Social Assistance in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings

Næss¹,

Selby²,

Daoust³

2022

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“…This is despite the fact that countries disproportionately affected by climate change are investing over $500 billion each year in social protection instruments and systems-in the form of conditional and unconditional cash transfers, public works programs, pensions, school feeding programs, and increased capacity of social protection systems to respond after disasters (Agrawal et al 2019). When developing social protection agendas for adaptation, policymakers are not yet tackling the structural causes of climate vulnerability, inequality, and marginalization, or leveraging rights-based approaches-which include principles for participation and inclusion (Tenzing 2020).…”

Section: Social Protection Instruments and Systemsmentioning

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Locally Led Climate Adaptation: What Is Needed to Accelerate Action and Support?

Tye¹,

I²

2021

WRIPUB

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This working paper examines the existing literature on locally led adaptation, looking at efforts that have optimized finance through direct and consistent collaboration with local actors and identifying initiatives that embody locally led principles rather than traditional stakeholder consultation or participation. In line with the Global Commission on Adaptation’s Year of Action, the authors sought to identify projects and designs that aim to catalyze accelerated action and support for locally led adaptation. Where possible, the paper includes examples of projects or programs that have been responsive to local priorities and produced benefits (whether initial or over time) in terms of climate resilience. The authors synthesized the essential characteristics and program designs of international and country-driven investments that have reached the local level and enabled locally led adaptation. The application of this knowledge could enhance efforts to increase focus on—and finance for—durable, positive changes via locally led adaptation. The primary audience for this paper is funders, international and local institutions, and decisionmakers worldwide who are seeking to understand how to invest in locally led interventions that strengthen resilience, including climate resilience.

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“…Social protection can have a mitigating impact on the negative impact of weather shocks, and by implication have the potential to be a valuable ex ante strategy to help the poor adapt to climate variability. To realize positive impact, studies emphasize the need to incorporate attention to climate risk within the design of social protection programs, and have forward-looking strategies for long-term adaptation (Tenzing, 2019;Loboguerrero et al, 2020).…”

Section: Resilience Transdisciplinary Approaches and Equity -A Transformative Agendamentioning

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Reflections on Enhancing the Impact of Climate Risk Management Through Transformative Adaptation

Hellin¹,

Fisher²,

Loboguerrero³

2021

Front. Clim.

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Climate risk management is part of the response to the threat of climate change. Much effort has focused on the promotion on climate-resilient agriculture. There continues to be undue focus on technology solutions per se and not enough attention on the coupling of technologies and socio-economics and how they become embedded in ecological systems underpinning smallholder agriculture. In this perspective, we argue that an intertwined social–ecological–technological systems approach to climate risk management is needed to ensure that climate-resilient agriculture contributes more to the realization of goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Furthermore, in line with broader policy thinking on the need for transformative change toward sustainably living on the planet and “leaving no one behind,” a greater focus on transformative adaptation is required. Transformative adaptation tackles the root causes of vulnerability including unevenly distributed power relations, and extant networks of control and influence. There are, however, relatively few examples of moving from the theory of transformative adaptation to practice. Three recent practical examples of transdisciplinary approaches, that we have direct experience of as researchers, provide lessons for initial ways forward as part of climate risk management initiatives. Examples from Vietnam, East and Southern Africa, and Guatemala illustrate the importance of inter- and transdisciplinary responses whereby the inequalities underlying unequal power structures may be addressed, enabling farmers to pursue climate risk management pathways that contribute to climate resilience and human development, as epitomized by the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Integrating social protection and climate change adaptation: A review

Cited by 40 publications

References 73 publications

Climate Resilience and Social Assistance in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings

Climate Resilience and Social Assistance in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings

Locally Led Climate Adaptation: What Is Needed to Accelerate Action and Support?

Reflections on Enhancing the Impact of Climate Risk Management Through Transformative Adaptation

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