Climate Change Adaptation Practices in South Asia Countries

The 100-page report from Oxfam Research presents a review of climate adaptation practices in South Asia. It contains a stocktake of climate adaptation in the region, focusing on five countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

The report describes the region’s vulnerability —home to the world’s poor—inequality of wealth, imbalances in economic growth, and proneness to disasters. Climate adaptation in the region lacks cohesiveness within other relevant government institutions, such as disaster risk reduction, agriculture, and related policies.

Oxfam is taking a holistic, people-centred, and rights-based approach to poverty and injustice, which it believes is the best way to reduce poverty sustainably.

Climate adaptation practices or projects should, therefore, do the following:

• build adaptive capacity,
• empowering and enriching resources of local governments to be genuine agents of change,
• should be able to assess the vulnerability of the community to assist in planning,
• manage risk and uncertainty, and address factors that limit adaptive capacity to climate change.

The report shows the various adaptation projects in these five countries, approaches and tools used, and specific examples of adaptation technologies applied.

Sixty-four adaptation projects and programmes were analysed. Out of these, 14 were found to be examples of good practice. Chapter 4 presents these good climate adaptation practices in 5 countries in detail.

The report also identified current gaps in knowledge, capacity, and experience and what needs to be done going forward.

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