Revisiting the Local Adaptive Capacity framework: learning from the implementation of a research and programming framework in Africa
Revisiting the Local Adaptive Capacity framework: learning from the implementation of a research and programming framework in Africa
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10.1080/17565529.2017.1374237
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发表时间：
2019-01-02
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4.3
通讯作者：
Barihaihi, Margaret
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作者：
Jones, Lindsey;Ludi, Eva;Barihaihi, Margaret
虽然适应气候变化已成为发展研究的一个关键领域，但人们对执行以适应为导向的研究和发展规划框架的推动因素和制约因素知之甚少。本文件记录了从非洲气候变化抗御能力联盟（阿克拉）方案-一个由四个大型国际非政府组织和一个研究组织组成的多利益攸关方联合体-中吸取的经验教训。报告回顾了指导阿克拉工作的概念框架-地方适应能力框架-的制定和执行情况。在2009年至2013年期间，阿克拉的研究使用LAC来了解发展干预措施对社区和家庭层面适应能力水平的影响。这反过来又为非政府组织和政府方案的目标确定提供了信息。必须应对各种挑战，如复原力和适应之间的定义重叠、难以阐明拉丁美洲和加勒比适应能力五个特点的无形要素以及学术界和实践者伙伴对常用术语的不同解释。阿克拉的研究经验突出了LAC作为统一框架的效用。然而，它们也指出，需要确保拉丁美洲和加勒比的某些要素（如性别、权力和政治）的代表性不不足。此外，还确定需要改进指导，说明如何将拉加经委会的概念要素付诸实施，并确保所有利益攸关方之间开展更大程度的合作。希望阿克拉的经验教训不仅有助于塑造拉丁美洲和加勒比地区未来的应用，而且还有助于塑造指导发展研究和实践的大量其他适应和注重实效的框架。
While adaptation to climate change has emerged as a key area of development research, little is known about the enablers and constraints to implementing adaptation-oriented frameworks for research and development programming. This paper documents lessons learned from the Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) programme - a multi-stakeholder consortium comprised of four large international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and a research organization. It revisits the development and implementation of the conceptual framework that guided ACCRA's work: the Local Adaptive Capacity (LAC) framework. Between 2009 and 2013, ACCRA's research used the LAC to understand the impact of development interventions on levels of adaptive capacity at community and household levels. This in turn informed targeting of NGO and government programming. Challenges such as definitional overlaps between resilience and adaptation, difficulties in articulating the intangible elements of LAC's five characteristics of adaptive capacity and differing interpretations of commonly used terms between academic and practitioner partners each had to be grappled with. Experiences from ACCRA's research highlight the LAC's utility as a unifying framework. However, they also point to the need to ensure that certain elements of the LAC are not under-represented (such as gender, power and politics). In addition, the need for improved guidance in describing how the conceptual elements of the LAC can be operationalized, and ensuring greater levels of collaboration between all stakeholders were identified. It is hoped that the lessons from ACCRA not only help to shape future applications of the LAC but the large number of other adaptation and resilience-oriented frameworks that guide development research and practice.