Community-based loss and damage assessment toolkit for the tourism and agricultural sectors

The purpose of this document is to provide a Loss and Damage (L&D) information toolkit that can be used by communities and local practitioners to collect data and information to carry out preliminary and credible climate change and climate extreme L&D assessments in the agriculture and tourism sectors. In using this toolkit, communities, researchers and stakeholders can:

• collect relevant information and understanding of the depth and scope of vulnerability, exposure, impacts and existing adaptive capacity in order to generate better coping and adaptive lessons and applications. The measure or indicators of impacts are mostly qualitative with few quantitative ones.
• identify limitations in coping and adaption and where certain critical decisions must be taken to avoid further L&D. Some of the key questions are: why do certain coping and adaptive strategies and activities fail; what are their limitations and how can they be improved.
• better understand the root causes for increasing, decreasing or stopping of L&D in order to make better decisions related to their coping and adaptive strategies and the activities that are needed to develop better community development plans for preventing, stop or reducing L&D.
• use as leverage for further assessment, planning and development actions.