Supporting local climate adaptation planning and implementation through local governance and decentralised finance provision

Policies developed at national levels can be unresponsive to local needs. Often they do not provide the rural poor with access to the assets and services they need to allow them to innovate and adapt to the ways that increased climate variability and change exacerbate challenges to basic securities...

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Published in:Development in practice 2014-05, Vol.24 (4), p.579-590
Main Authors: Sharma, Virinder, Orindi, Victor, Hesse, Ced, Pattison, James, Anderson, Simon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Assets
Benefits
Climate
Collective action
Common Lands
Development planning
Energy
Environment (built and natural) - Climate change
Finance
Food
Governance
Governance and public policy
Civil society - Participation
Government and politics
Local government
Participation
Planning systems
Public services
Qualitative analysis
Resilience
Security
Strategic planning
Sub-Saharan Africa
Water
Water Supply
Well Being
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Summary:Policies developed at national levels can be unresponsive to local needs. Often they do not provide the rural poor with access to the assets and services they need to allow them to innovate and adapt to the ways that increased climate variability and change exacerbate challenges to basic securities - food, water, energy, and well-being. In development deficit circumstances, common pool resources are important for climate adaptation purposes. In order for climate adaptation actions to deliver resilience, local perspectives and knowledge need to be recognised and given due priority in formal planning systems. Basing formal adaptive development planning on local strategies can support and strengthen measures that people have been tested and know to work. Local climate adaptation through collective action can address current increases in climate variability, future incremental changes, and the need to transform existing systems to deal with qualitative shifts in climate. These types of adaptation can work in cumulative ways. The results of local adaptation collective action that have benefits of low rivalry between users while being highly inclusive can be considered "local public goods". Evidence is beginning to emerge that when local governance systems facilitate high levels of participation in planning collective action for climate adaptation, and direct access to resources for implementing local plans, "local public goods" can be created and common pool resources better managed.
ISSN:0961-4524
1364-9213
DOI:10.1080/09614524.2014.907240