The Sustainability of Community-Based Adaptation Projects in the Blue Nile Highlands of Ethiopia
The Sustainability of Community-Based Adaptation Projects in the Blue Nile Highlands of Ethiopia
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埃塞俄比亚青尼罗高地社区适应项目的可持续性
DOI：
10.3390/su6074308
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发表时间：
2014
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
B. Zaitchik
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作者：
B. Simane;B. Zaitchik
自给农业社区的气候抗御能力在很大程度上取决于农业自然资源基础的稳健性和有效管理。因此，适应规划工作往往侧重于自然资源保护，将其作为适应活动的主要动机和主要成果。在这里，我们提出了基于社区的适应（CBA）活动的可持续性的分析，在埃塞俄比亚的青尼罗河高原，以促进适应气候变化的能力建立了20个基于社区的组织（CBO）。CBA的可持续性进行了评估，通过多标准分析，使用层次分析法（AHP）。可持续性是从社会、体制、技术、财政和环境等方面考虑的，并为每个方面确定了二级指标或因素。根据这一分析，三分之二的社区组织的社区基础教育工作在所有方面都是不可持续的，其余社区组织的社区基础教育工作也有不可持续的风险。查明了影响社区-生物援助可持续性的一些障碍，包括社区参与不足、当地社区成员培训不足、地方政府承诺不足、农民能力不足和官僚效率不足。然而，对成本效益分析的初步评价表明，其中许多障碍可归因于将自然资源保护作为成本效益分析活动的主要框架的决定。根据这一评价，已作出新的努力，利用市场作为可持续性活动的进入和退出点。在这个项目中吸取的经验教训对发展中国家其他农业地区的社区援助工作具有相关意义。
Climate resilience in subsistence agricultural communities depends strongly on the robustness and effective management of the agricultural natural resource base. For this reason, adaptation planning efforts frequently focus on natural resource conservation as the primary motivation for and primary outcome of adaptation activities. Here, we present an analysis of the sustainability of community based adaptation (CBA) activities in 20 community based organizations (CBO) that were established in the Blue Nile Highlands of Ethiopia in order to promote resilience to climate change. CBA sustainability was assessed through multi-criteria analysis using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Sustainability was considered for social, institutional, technical, financial, and environmental dimensions, with second-order indicators or factors defined for each dimension. According to this analysis, CBA efforts of two thirds of the COBs studied were found to be unsustainable in all dimensions and CBA efforts of the remaining CBOs were found to be at risk of unsustainability. A number of barriers to CBA sustainability were identified, including inadequacies in community participation, training of local community members, local government commitment, farmer capacity, and bureaucratic efficiency. Participatory evaluation of CBA, however, revealed that many of these barriers can be attributed to the decision to use conservation of natural resources as the primary framework for CBA activities. Based on this evaluation, new efforts have been developed that use markets as the entry and exit points for sustainability activities. Lessons learned in this project are relevant for CBA efforts in other agricultural regions of the developing world.