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Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
COHRE PUBLICATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND MDGS
The Right to Water Programme (RWP) of the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) has released a report which addresses the need for MDG-based policy making on water and sanitation to incorporate human rights standards. The publication analyses MDG-based policies and sector strategies from five countries, identifying current trends and any critical gaps. It reviews the extent to which such policies are consistent with, are conflicting or fail to reflect human rights principles. It also shows how gaps in MDG-based policy making can be usefully filled by more explicit and systematic consideration of human rights standards. The report titled The significance of human rights in MDG-based policy making on water and sanitation: An application to Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Sri Lanka and Laos is available at http://www.cohre.org/resources and www.cohre.org/watsannews.
Food Trade and Nutrition Coalition
The principles of FTN Coalition are based on achieving autonomy for the farmer and peasant control over productive and reproductive resources, local consumption, sovereignty of nations to pursue policies that address local needs rather than international trade laws and the protection of valuable natural resources.
The Food Trade and Nutrition Coalition pdf file
The Food Trade and Nutrition Coalition enhances collaboration between civil society organizations involved in lobby and advocacy at their respective national and regional level. Participants in the campaign are civil society organizations from all continents with a special interest in food, nutrition, trade and health issues: consumer organizations, farmers’ organizations, organizations working on rural development, groups of the People’s Health Movement, groups working on the promotion of healthy nutrition, etc. http://www.ftncoalitionasia.org/
Adivasi Women. Engaging with Climate Change.
Study by Govind Kelkar supported by IFAD, UNIFEM (South Asia Office, New Delhi) and Christensen Fund. http://www.cwlr.net/publications/others/resources
CRiSTAL(Community-based Risk Screening Tool - Adaptation & Livelihoods)
CRiSTAL (developed by IUCN, IISD, SEI-US and Intercooperation) is a climate risk assessment tool that can help users collect and organise information on the climate and livelihood context of an area. Users are guided through a set of questions to help them systematically identify the links between local livelihoods and climate hazards in a project area. CRiSTAL provides a ready framework for stakeholder consultations using participatory methods to elicit information on local livelihood and climate contexts.
It also contains a second module which is designed to help assess the impacts of a planned / ongoing project on community-level adaptive capacity. It promotes adjustments of the project activities to improve impacts on adaptive capacity.
CRiSTAL should be understood as a framework methodology rather than as a fixed instrument – it can be modified for different user groups and contexts, elements can be added or eliminated in order to make it more relevant for certain contexts.
Climate Change Data Portal
An online Google maps-based platform that provides an easy access to global-level climate and climate-related data (developed by the World Bank)
The portal provides historical and projected climate data (low- and high-resolution general circulation models), socio-economic data at the country level, information on natural hazards and “hotspots”, as well as agricultural information on current and projected change in crop yields due to climate impacts.
The objective of the portal is to help development practitioners find relevant information that will help “climate-proof” development plans.
Linked to the platform which is basically an information base on (potential) project sites, the World Bank has also developed a computer-based tool that undertakes a sensitivity analysis for specific projects and flags activities that are sensitive to climate change.
Find both under http://sdwebx.worldbank.org/climateportal/.
Vulnerability Calculator
Software on the assessment of vulnerability of a region to climate change impact (developed by M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF).The Vulnerability Calculator is a statistical tool to assess the existing vulnerability of a region to climate change in terms of the current level of degraded resources. It comprises 15 indicators representing the physical, biological, social and socio-economic scenarios of the region are used for this purpose. The indicators are sub-classified into 3 groups:
I. indicators which would have severe impact in a region on account of climate change (population density, forest cover, water resources / water bodies, rate of food production, area under irrigation, level of literacy )
II. indicators which are considered to have lesser or moderate impact as a result of climate change (rate of population growth, ground water position, poverty per cent)indicators
III. considered to be relatively less important in terms of their impacts resulting from climate change (per capita income, income source, seasonal dry spell, pest and disease outbreak, land holding size, intensity of soil degradation).
After information on each indicator is entered, the software calculates the vulnerability scale of a region, whereby values for each indicator are weighted based on the importance of impact groups, also taking into account interactions between the indicators. The vulnerability scale is classified in categories of “low/ 10% / 20% / ... / 90% / severe”. A key advantage of the tool may be that all the information required is quantitative and will be relatively easy to collect (no participatory appraisals and qualitative data needed).
You may find this tool useful as it highlights a concise list of important physical, biological, social and socio-economic indicators to assess a region’s vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. The indicators used in the tool have been chosen carefully based on scientific analysis and are tailored to the context of agriculture-based economies / natural resource based livelihoods.
You will find the Vulnerability Calculator under URL http://www.appleg.in/weather/index.php (Login: user : balunambi ; Password : vava.)
OECD Policy Guidance on Integrating Climate Change Adaptation
The OECD Policy Guidance into Development Co-operationdemonstrates different approaches for integrating climate adaptation into policy making at national, sectoral and project levels, and in urban and rural contexts. At each of these levels, typical governance architectures are illustrated, and entry points for the consideration of climate change adaptation are identified.
You might find Part III of the Guidance on “Integrating climate change adaptation at the local level” relevant for your work.
The Guidance is available under http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/11/55/42551540.pdf
United Nations
Un Framework convention on Climate Change
UN Convention to combat desertification
UN Convention on Biological Diversity
United Nations Environment Program
www.unep.org/Themes/climatechange
United Nations Development Program
Ozone Secretariat
World Bank Group and Climate Change
http://go.worldbank.org/W13H8ZXSD1
World Meteorological Organization
World Resources Institute
Climate Ark: Climate Change and Global Worming Portal
Climate Action Network
Climate Technology Initiative
EcoEquity
International Institute for Environment and Development
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
International Research Institute for Climate and Society
http://portal.iri.columbia.edu/portal/server.pt
IUCN-World Conservation Union
Linking Climate Adaptation Network
www.linkingclimateadaptation.org
Oxfam Climate Change Campaign
www.oxfam.org/en/programs/campaigns/climate_change/index.htm
Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness
Stockholm Environment Institute
Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
World Resources Institute
For livestock-livelihood issues in rain fed areas, please write to rainfedlivestock@googlegroups.com
Delhi Forum
Resolution of the National Forum for Forest Peoples and Forest Workers (NFFPFW), the second National Conference, June 2009
Dehradun Declaration word document