Africa: Consultation on new ACCRA adaptive capacity framework

The Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance has launched the consultation version of the ACCRA adaptive capacity framework. ACCRA is an dynamic and ambitious consortium working to improve the understanding of adaptive capacity. An innovative 'adaptive capacity framework' has been developed which is currently in the process of consultation and being used as a conceptual tool for research on existing Disaster Risk Reduction, Social Protection and Livelihoods programme interventions in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique.

The consortium has intended the ACCRA framework to be used in a number of different contexts, and for a range of purposes - for example to mainstream climate change adaptation, for design or evaluation purposes and is already looking at how it can be used in ACCRA members’ policy and programming work.  However, the consortium's ambition is for it to be used much more widely. It has already consulted extensively with governments, civil society members and of course ACCRA members in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique on the framework and would now like to hear your views: - Volunteers who are willing to test the framework to assess if their projects contribute to adaptive capacity and feed back to us. - Do you have comments/views on our characteristics of adaptive capacity? - Inputs on what you like about the framework and question guide, and how they could be improved? - How can you see yourself using the framework if we developed it further? Please email to feed back at: jlofthouse@oxfam.org.uk, or write to ACCRA at Oxfam GB, P.O. Box 6228, Kampala, Uganda.
Please visit the website below for more information. To find out more about ACCRA, join the ACCRA community at http://community.eldis.org/accra/ and receive updates on our research findings, our policy recommendations and the evolution of our adaptive capacity framework.