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Title Role clarification for local institutions: a missing link in multi-level adaptation planning? Insights from a multiple case study in Botswana
Full text https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/585135
Date 2021
Author(s) Sethamo, Obakeng A.; Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, Sylvia; Harder, Marie K.
Abstract The meaningful engagement of community-based actors in climate change adaptation planning is crucial for effective plans, but achieving it is an ongoing challenge, even with participatory methods. In this paper we explore very different approach, using shared-values crystallization as a pre-process to standard vulnerability risk assessments (VRAs), which recently reported significant impacts on plans produced. We posit this could be due to learning via changed local perceptions of roles, and we use multiple-case study work with five Village Development Committees (VDCs) in North East District, Botswana, and examine VRA outputs, and pre- and post-VRA interview transcripts, for evidence. Findings indicate that VDC members who took part in the shared-values pre-process significantly clarified and prioritized their general roles, and subsequently engaged more deeply in the planning process, taking more responsibility and ownership for the final adaptation plans. They related climate risks to their local lived-realities better, producing quality action plans, funding innovations and mainstreaming of adaptation into wider local plans, alongside an eagerness to present ideas to higher-governance levels. These findings suggest the shared-values pre-process could be immediately valuable for multilevel adaptation planning practices, and that the concept of role clarification deserves more specific consideration in academic studies on participation.
Subject(s) local adaptation plan; multilevel adaptation; Shared values; village development committee; vulnerability risk assessment; WeValue InSitu
Language en
Relation https://edepot.wur.nl/550930
Type of publication Article/Letter to editor
Format text/html
Source Climate and Development (2021); ISSN: 1756-5529
Rights Wageningen University & Research
Identifier 10.1080/17565529.2021.1924109
Repository Wageningen - University of Wageningen
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