| Product | Description | Expected Completion |
| Measuring Community-Level Adaptive Capacity: Lessons in Community-Based Project Development and M&E for CBA | This product will present lessons learned from the development and implementation of community-based monitoring and evaluation frameworks. It will consist of multiple forms aimed at multiple audiences. | For local audiences (NGOs and CBOs), it will serve as a practical guide for the implementation of the Vulnerability Reduction Assessment. It will include a step-by-step guide in the form of both a flip-chart and a video CD for carrying out the Vulnerability Reduction Assessment for UNDP CBA projects. In addition, the video will introduce NGOs and CBOs to the mechanics of CBA projects, while highlighting successful examples of the VRA in practice. The flipchart will provide all of the materials necessary to develop and monitor a CBA community project, including tools for participatory proposal development with semiliterate populations, and H-forms for measuring VRA. While the video will primarily be targeted at CBA project proponents, it will also be a valuable communications tool for external audiences. | June 2009 |
| For CBA team members (national coordinators and the HQ team), it will be an operational, working document, to serve as a guide for implementation, and an organic document with which to record developing lessons from practice. | Working paper available |
| For global audiences, it will describe the community-based M&E systems used by UNDP, including theoretical and practical considerations. It will provide a framework for replication, and serve to advance the global dialogue on how adaptation progress is measured. The prime items within this product to be aimed at the global audiences will include a capstone document and associated presentation. | August 2009 |
Technical Paper:
Risk Analysis for Adaptation at the Community Level | This technical paper will explore the question of risk analysis for community-based adaptation projects. Through paper will explore the following key questions:
- How does one integrate community-based perspectives on vulnerability with scientific assessments of vulnerability in practice?
- How much climate information is sufficient to guide action on community-based adaptation?
- How is risk analysis for community-based adaptation different in scope from other scales and types of adaptation measures?
- What kind of information is needed at the community level that is not needed at other levels, and vice versa?
- What resources are required for community-level risk assessment?
| July 2009 |
Policy Brief:
Toward national access in the context of CBA | This document will leverage initial lessons learned from UNDP’s experience supporting CBA country programmes, to explore capacity needs and capacity-building strategies to contribute to the emerging discourse on direct national access to adaptation funding in the context of CBA. | October 2009 |
The Role of Volunteerism in Climate Change Adaptation:
Valuing and Supporting Volunteerism in the Context of CBA | A setof joint products with the United Nations Volunteers, examining the role of volunteerism in the context of Community-Based Adaptation. | Methodology document: Valuing the role of volunteerism in the context of CBA | Late 2009 |
| Volunteerism and CBA: Lessons learned | 2010 |
| Thematic Papers | CBA in Coastal Zones | A themaitic paper focusing on the climate change risks faced by communities in coastal zones, adaptation options, and case studies of community-based adaptation projects. | 2009 |
| CBA in Mountain Ecosystems | A themaitic paper focusing on the climate change risks faced by communities in mountainous areas, adaptation options, and case studies of community-based adaptation projects. | 2009 |
| CBA in Arid Agropastoral Ecosystems | A themaitic paper focusing on the climate change risks faced by agropastoral communities, adaptation options, and case studies of community-based adaptation projects. | 2009 |
