Climate Change

It is the world’s poorest people who are hardest hit by devastating droughts, floods and other extreme weather events. Practical Action works with poor people in Africa, Asia and Latin America to build on their skills and knowledge and use appropriate technologies to help them develop more secure lives, cope with the risks they face and adapt their lives successfully to meet future challenges of climate change. In addition, Practical Action is working around the world to tackle climate change by helping people choose and use technologies such as renewable energy that do not contribute to climate change.

Families wading through flood to salvage items from houses, Bangladesh

Practical Action Consulting provides independent professional advice and assistance for the following types of work in the areas of climate change adaptation, mitigation and mainstreaming:

• Economic, social and environmental impact assessments in sectors such as agriculture and food security, energy, water resources, infrastructure provision, education and health including baseline surveys
• Specialist technical support for practical project design, implementation and evaluation of programmes incorporating community-base adaptation and low carbon development options
• Policy analysis and institutional development including mainstreaming approaches to adaptation and emerging mitigation mechanisms such as voluntary carbon markets and CDM
• In-country stakeholder/institutional analysis for strategic country assessments and action planning
• Vulnerability analysis
• Programmatic reviews
• Desk-based scoping studies, literature reviews and fact-finding missions
• Scenario studies
• Participatory technology development
• Development of training and capacity building
• Publications and technical manuals
• Event management and facilitation
• Preparation and review of Terms of Reference

Projects and Experience:

A herdsman leading his animals to water during drought in the Maasai, Kenya

• Regional Study into the Impact of Climate Change on Food Security
• Practical Action Consulting Climate Change Training
• Mid-term review of the DFID/IDRC Climate Change Adaptation in Africa Research and Capacity Development Programme
• Vietnam voluntary carbon markets 
• Encouraging Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Energy Projects to Aid Poverty Alleviation
• PROBASE
• The Economic Cost of Climate Change in Africa
   
• DEW Point PAC are members of the DFID Water, Sanitation and Environment Resource Centre. This consortium provides advice, knowledge management and related technical services on demand to DFID and developing country partners. Work by PAC incorporating Climate Change includes:
  - Climate Change Screening in Kenya
  - Draft Climate Change Technical Briefs 1: Concepts & terminology
  - Draft Climate Change Technical Brief 2: Impacts
  - Draft Climate Change Technical Brief 4: Typology of climate change adaptation
  - Issue 6 Newsletter: Effecting Change from Within: Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change
  - Issue 7 Newsletter: Report from the High Level Conference on World Food Security: The Challenges
    of Climate Change and Bioenergy, hosted by FAO 3-5 June
  - Issue 8 Newsletter: Can Voluntary Carbon Markets Work for the Poor?
  - Issue 11 Newsletter: Adaption to Climate Change in International Climate Policy Discussions
  - Issue 13: Climate Change or Development?
  - Technical support to development of climate change adaptation ToRs
  - Climate Change Reading week support
  - Attendees of the DFID Low Carbon Team Meetings

• PAC are associates of the Livelihoods Resource Centre

Please click here to view Practical Action's Climate Change Adaptation projects.