Author: CARE International
Year of publication: 2019
Available languages: English, French, Spanish
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk assessment
Format of assessment: Guideline
Details: Handbook
Estimated duration of assessment: The amount of time the CVCA process takes depends on: The scope of the analysis and your main objectives; The number of stakeholders involved; The availability of secondary information; Presence in and relationship with the community and stakeholders
To be carried out by whom: Government representatives
Institutional scale of use: Continental
Details: Local/community, project level
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Multiple actors
Details: Technical advisors, project managers and other staff working on projects in international or local NGOs
Output: Report
Region of origin: Europe
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Details: Method can be applied to all climate sensitive sectors
Method used: Mixed method approach
Description of methodology: The foundation of the CVCA is the process of gathering information through participatory research with community members and from secondary sources, and analyzing this information in a way that can inform actions to increase climate resilience.
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: All
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: All hazards
Details: Mostly data generated via interviews. Besides other data sources can be useful: national communications to the UNFCCC, IPCC reports, NAPA documents, NAP to combat drought and desertification documents, professional and academic journals, meteorological data on curent climate trends, seasonal forecasts, maps showing topography, agro-ecological region, infrastructure, national census and poverty data
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: Consultations with community leaders, focus group discussions, training facilitators
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No information
Details: Is not explicitly stated
Adressing uncertainty: No
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Details: Includes participatory tools for identifying potential non-economic and economic losses but not their calculation
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Details: The tool includes guiding questions to identify: Extreme weather events affecting the community; observed changes in weather and seasonal patterns; observed changes in temperature, rainfall and extreme weather events; projected changes in temperature, rainfall and extreme weather events
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Yes
Usefulness for political purposes: Project proposal for the Global environmental facility (GEF)
Applied by whom: CARE
Open access: Yes