Author: CARE International
Year of publication: 2012
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Climate change adaptation assessment
Format of assessment: Guideline
Details: Short guideline on how to implement a participatory scenario planning approach including best practices
Estimated costs for conducting: Estimated cost factors: moderators, venue and costs for workshops
Estimated duration of assessment: Workshops are conducted when new climate information is available, therefore they may be conducted on a regular basis
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Local community; meteorologists, local government representatives, local NGOs
Institutional scale of use: Multiple (see details)
Details: Regional, Local/community
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Regional decision makers
Output: Others (see details)
Details: Scenarios that are ranked according to their likelihood
Region of origin: Africa
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Africa
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Sectors covered: Not sector specific, Livelihood sector
Details: Can be applied to different sectors according to locally defined priorities. Method focuses on livelihoods
Method used: Scenario mapping
Description of methodology: Participative scenario planning is a 9-Step approach which identifies local expertise and data in climate forecasting, and invites stakeholders to develop scenarios, based on this data and local knowledge, in a participatory manner.
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: All
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: All hazards
Source of required data: Primary and secondary
Details: Data from climate forecasts is combined in a workshop format with technical expert's knowledge and knowledge of different local stakeholders
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: Main element of the approach: conducting workshops for meteorologists, community members, local government, local NGO's to share knowledge on climate forecasts; Goal: to interpret climate information in a way which is userful for the communities
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Yes
Adressing uncertainty: Yes
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options, priorization of adaptation options
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Yes
Applied by whom: CARE
Open access: Yes