| Sumario: | Assessing options for adapting to climate change is an important part of building resilient fishing and
farming communities.
This brochure is part of a series that collectively detail how a community-based assessment of climate
change was used in partnership with coastal communities and provincial and national-level stakeholders
in Timor-Leste and Solomon Islands. The assessment contains four distinct, but related, steps (Fig 1)
focused on supporting community-level decision-making for adaptation through a series of participatory
action research activities. Each brochure in this series details a specific activity in the four-step assessment.
This series of eight brochures is primarily aimed for use where resources are limited or where it is more
appropriate to use a rapid, qualitative and non-data intensive method of assessment. Community
leaders, local NGOs and regional and national-level government representatives in developing countries
may find this series useful.
In this brochure we provide details of an activity relating to the ‘Planning implementation’ step of the
assessment, namely a workshop held with community members to evaluate the usefulness of the
material produced to date on climate change adaptation and how to begin planning the implementation
of selected adaptation actions. More specifically, the following questions were posed:
• Were the outputs of the participatory workshops and multidisciplinary research relevant and/or
useful to communities in making decisions about how and when to adapt to a changing climate (Fig 2)?
• Is there any further information needed to allow informed decisions to be made by the community
about how they can adapt?
• What are the social, economic and environmental tipping points or thresholds that would trigger the
need to implement adaptation actions (Fig 3)?
• Who are the key people or institutions that communities need to work with to ensure adaptation
actions are implemented and maintained effectively?
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