Event2014_CBA_learning_event

Community Based Adaptation and Resilience in East and Southern Africa’s Drylands A Learning Event for practitioners, researchers and policy makers


 * [[file:Final ESA CBA and Resilience Learning Event Conference Announcement.pdf|Download the conference announcement]]**


 * 1-4 September 2014 **
 * Lalibela Auditorium, ILRI Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia **

Full notes available here.
 * Outputs of the meeting**:
 * **Official communique of the learning event**
 * ** Official report from this learning event  **
 * Photos
 * Presentations
 * Community-based adaptation and resilience in East & Southern Africa Drylands (Fiona Percy, CARE)
 * Climate information services for community adaptation and resilience (John Gathenya, University of Reading)
 * ESA Drylands Climate Knowledge & Projections (Jasper Batureine Mwesigwa, ICPAC)
 * Future horizons - Pastoralism and climate change in Ethiopia (Adrian Cullis, Tufts University)
 * Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience (Emma Bowa, CARE)

The impacts of climate change are threatening the livelihoods of already vulnerable pastoralist, agro pastoralist and farming communities in East and Southern African drylands. In order to meet the scale and magnitude of these challenges, where extreme events and recurrent drought will be ongoing features, actors in development, adaptation, disaster risk management, social protection and humanitarian action are recognizing the need to focus on achieving resilient outcomes. Community based adaptation (CBA) to climate change is providing valuable practical approaches and evidence of use for drylands related programmes and policy decisions.

Bringing together stakeholders from a diverse range of disciplines working with dryland communities across East and Southern Africa, the aim of the event is to facilitate learning from experiences and evidence on climate change adaptation, in particular CBA, and resilience. Participants will co-generate new insights on the links between CBA and achieving resilient development.
 * Aim of the learning event**

The conference will explore:
 * 1) What is the added value that CBA practical experience brings to achieving resilience in dryland communities?
 * 2) How are climate change and related responses exacerbating the entrenched drivers of differential vulnerability among communities living in drylands? What are the barriers and drivers to change?
 * 3) What would an integrated and coherent approach to achieving resilience in vulnerable dryland communities look like?

CARE Ethiopia will host the event together with CARE’s Adaptation Learning Programme (ALP), the CGIAR Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security programme (CCAFS) and the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE).


 * Target audience**: Practitioners working with drylands issues (government, non-government and donors) and researchers, who have knowledge and experiences to share on adaptation and resilience in drylands. Policy makers concerned with East and Southern African drylands are also welcome to register.

Participation will be dependent on the relevance of information shared in the registration form.
 * List of participants**


 * Location**: ILRI campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
 * Date:** 1st to 4th September 2014


 * Download the full concept note**



**Contact:** Sylvia Miyumo alp@careclimatechange.org

**Registration is now closed.** Conference information will be posted to this link on an ongoing basis for those who would like to follow.


 * Detailed Working Agenda: **

 **Expected outputs and outcomes**:
 * Better understanding of the links between climate change adaptation and resilience in drylands with good practices, success factors, challenges and key lessons identified and analyzed to inform future actions and policy.
 * Participants strengthen their networks, coordination and ability to engage with resilience in their area of work.
 * A communique collectively produced by participants to share emerging recommendations for improved practice, policy and to inform decisions on adaptation finance and resilience programming in the region’s drylands.

**The programme is structured to respond to the core learning questions: **
 * 1) What is the added value that CBA brings to achieving resilience in dryland communities which can be applied from CBA practice and evidence?
 * 2) How are climate change and related responses exacerbating the entrenched drivers of differential vulnerability among communities living in drylands? What are the barriers and drivers to change?
 * 3) What would an integrated and coherent approach to achieving resilience in vulnerable dryland communities look like? What synergies and trade-offs would be needed?

**Agenda**

 __Monday 1 September__: **Identifying a vision of integrated CBA and resilience**
 * 09.00 Conference introductions. Scene setting on CBA and resilience and how climate change and other stresses are influencing change
 * 10.00 Playground and wall: approaching the issues we are grappling with (exploration and group work) and mapping them on the knowledge wall
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.30 //Coffee break//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">12.00 Official welcome and introductions from key note speakers. Keynote address
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">13.00 //Lunch break//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">14.15 Group discussion on key issues from the morning sessions
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">15.30 //Coffee break//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">16.00 Group work reports and reporting important issues back on the wall
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">16.30 Introduction to and setting up of the Market Place
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">17.00 //Close//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">18:30 Conference reception at ILRI compound

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> __Tuesday 2 September__: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Identifying success factors, challenges and good practices **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">09.00 Video / recap
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">09.15 Plenary keynote: 3 guests to speak on key topics:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Climate information - a new resource for adaptation, risk reduction, early warning and resilience?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">The future of pastoralism in an uncertain climate
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">How the most vulnerable can realise resilient and equitable livelihoods in an uncertain climate?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.00 //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Coffee break //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.30 Group work: Collecting clues about these key topics: what are the issues and challenges, sharing good practices and success factors in addressing them, barriers and drivers to change and the link between climate change adaptation and broader development and resilience issues
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">12.30 //Lunch break//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">13.30 Market Place (including coffee break) – sharing and learning from others on practical tools, approaches and more
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">16.30 Reporting back major insights from key topic group work and from the Market Place onto the knowledge wall
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">17.00 //Close//

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> __Wednesday 3 September__: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Understanding synergies, complementarities, added value of CBA for resilience **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">09.00 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Plenary keynote Fishbowl: Taking stock of our journey, realising the limitations of our work and u <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">nderstanding synergies, complementarities and the added value of CBA for resilience in drylands – towards a vision for future work.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">09.30 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Group work: Co-creating new knowledge towards achieving climate resilient development in East and Southern Africa drylands
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">10.30 //Coffee break//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">11.00 Group work continued
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">12.30 //Lunch break//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">13.30 Presenting back group work results and critical reality check from //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">policy and donor perspectives //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">15.30 //Coffee break//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">16.00 Presenting back group work (continued)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">16.30 Filtering differences and overlaps and important building blocks for a communiqu <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">é
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">17.30 Close
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">18:00 Departure for social evening at Yod Abyssinia (cultural restaurant)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> __Thursday 4 September__: **Coming to a consensus**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">08.30 Video / recap
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">08.50 Plenary keynote: Live commentary on the knowledge wall: recommendations for policy and practice
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">09.30 Group work Open Space Technology: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">key actions for way forward, new partnerships
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Round 1: Parking lot issues
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Round 2: Communique development,
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(10.30 //Coffee break over Open Space)//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">11.30 OST results - open gallery run and dot-mocracy wall for key recommendations...
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">12.30 //<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Lunch break //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">13.30 Coming to commitments: Country group and personal (organizational)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">14.45 Closing session: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">Recap, next steps and where to find documentation about this event; evaluation and vox pop; Thank you's and closing statements
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">15.45 //Close//

Concept note for the event:
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 * Participants **


 * Outputs **


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