Innovation, evaluation, learning and behaviour change

 
Adaptation will be a collective effort, meaning that many people from various sectors and levels will have to collaborate. Adaptation is thus essentially an innovation and change process. This is not always straightforward, and many aspects of human psychology and social group behaviour play in. To complement a focus on technical measures we therefore need to better understand how human societies can learn to change and adapt. How do we create a learning environment in our organisations and societies to support change, innovation and ultimately adaptation?  How do we evaluate current actions to improve them? In this section we will gather different lessons on how actors have triggered and managed change. These lessons are often linked to socio-cultural aspects and resonate with deeply held human values and norms.

We will expand this section with the following topics:

  • The changing of awareness
  • Personal competencies and attitudes
  • The collaborative learning process (problem identification, deliberation, etc.)
  • Enabling environments for learning
  • Triggers for behaviour change, nudges etc.

We are looking for your stories and cases, please submit them here. 

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Get organised and strengthen institutional capacity

This means creating or assigning an organizational structure to coordinate and be responsible for the climate adaptation mainstreaming process.

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Assess climate risk

Climate risk assessments identify the likelihood of current and future climate hazards and their impacts.

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Risk dialogues and strategising

When climate risks have been assessed for multiple actors and sectors, these need to be coordinated and prioritizations worked out.

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Financing

Sufficient financial resources and capacity to access available resources are critical for adaptation. 

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Policies and regulations

The right policies and regulations can boost action and support implementation of climate adaptation.

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Planning, implementation, and operation

Mainstreaming adaptation means to increasingly take onboard water as a structural agent in spatial planning.

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