GCAP 2015 Booklet

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Bringing innovation to practice in adapting to climate change

Transcript of GCAP 2015 Booklet

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Bringing innovation to practice in adapting to climate change

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CONSULTING

ADAPTATION ACADEMY

KNOWLEDGE SPACE

We bring adaptation to

you. We understand your risks and find solutions

tailor made for your organization, processes

and capabilities. Our Senior Principals have specialist experience and proven

track records. Our Comprehensive Adaptation

Planning Methodology delivers a structured process from initial

engagement to prototyping solutions and developing

procedures, tools and capacity.

Climate is changing, and so should we. We are faced

with complex social, environmental and

economic issues interlinked with climate

change adaptation challenges. Leaders are required to be agents of change, empowered with knowledge and skills, and

emboldened to find innovative solutions.

Academy participants learn to navigate through the

complexity of transformation.

Organizations working on climate risk management

and resilient business processes need

knowledge-led solutions. Data bases and

information systems are vast, complex and cut

across many domains. No single approach or tool is

adequate for all users' needs. GCAP’s

collaboration platform delivers innovative and

effective Adaptation Solutions for our clients. It is our own innovation lab.

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ABOUT US We deliver climate adaptation solutions. Our consulting and knowledge management services support managers holding over $1 billion in funds. The Oxford Adaptation Academy is a unique lab for leadership and innovation.

GCAP specializes in climate adaptation solutions. We operate in three complementary business areas – consultancy, knowledge space and our very own adaptation academy.

We are driven by solutions for clients, offering bespoke services and products for long-term support for transformational change. We have a unique approach; we are not a short-term consultancy firm, but start with gaining a deep understanding of our clients’ original business strategies in order to develop sustainable and best-value solutions to their unique climate change challenges. We see adaptation as a process, and offer solutions that will grow with time for future capacity within your organization.

Our specialized team of consultants understand the uncertainties of climate change, and focus on environmental and sustainable solutions. Our key staff have over 300 working years of specialist experience in climate adaptation. We use our own toolkits and embed our understanding in practical solutions – bringing leadership and innovation to practice. Furthermore, we continuously train ourselves, to stay at the forefront of the industry.

GCAP is registered in The Netherlands, with subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, United States and Kenya, along with Joint Ventures in Colombia and Ethiopia. We have successfully carried out over $4 million in projects over the last 4 years, working with clients from multilateral banks, major donors and leading civil society organizations.

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CONSULTING

We specialize in Climate Adaptation Consulting. The principals leading GCAP have specialist experience and proven track records in a range of adaptation consulting services.

Our Adaptation Consulting Team works closely with you, drawing upon our proprietary adaptation toolkit. Our client engagement process identifies climate risks and adaptation strategies relevant to your organization’s processes. Priority strategies are converted into solutions that ensure resilient outcomes. Our Knowledge Management Team builds these solutions into your procedures, training your staff and deploying effective practices.

We call this three-step approach our Comprehensive Adaptation Planning Methodology. Driven by your needs. Supporting leadership and innovation in your teams. Agile in delivering operational solutions.

Our track record is world leading in the following areas. Get in touch with your requirements; we thrive on challenges!

• National Adaptation Plans

• Economics of Climate Change

• Disaster Risk Reduction

• Community and Ecosystems Based Adaptation

• Baseline Vulnerability & Risk Assessment

• Climate Screening and Safeguards

• Resilient Business Processes

• Monitoring for Learning & Evaluation

Adaptation is… cooler solutions

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BRACED PROJECT

Building Resilience and Adapting to Climate Extremes and Disasters Building an evidence base for at-scale transformation of community based resilience.

Sixteen grants have been awarded, covering 18 countries in the Sahel, Eastern Africa and Asia, with over 60 sub-grantees. The total programme is £140 million with the Fund Manager administering the grants and monitoring progress. GCAP is on the Selection Panel and advises KPMG on good practice and robust investment strategies, providing in-country experts as required.

GCAP is supporting a programmatic strategy that focuses on the nature of evidence to achieve transformation. Most of the BRACED projects would be classified as extensions to conventional development with support for improved agriculture and resource management, climate information applications and nutrition interventions. The extent to which these actions mobilise sufficient resources, buffering capacity and institutional learning to transform communities and their readiness for future climate change is a key concern.

Evidence of the impact of BRACED funding on achieving resilience will be collected through the projects. However, the ability to define and measure resilience at this scale and over relatively short time periods remains a significant challenge.

GCAP toolkit:

• Monitoring, Learning & Evaluation Dashboard

• OPTIONS appraisal using multiple attributes

• CONTEXT for project development and investment

GCAP provides technical assistance to Fund Managers

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CLIMATE SAFEGUARDS SYSTEM PROJECT

Guidelines and Screening Tools to Mainstream Climate Change in Africa Climate-smart projects in Africa.

GCAP led development of the Climate Safeguard System, working closely with the safeguards unit and task mangers to mainstream climate change adaptation into the Bank’s project cycle. The Bank now has the capacity to promote climate-smart projects across its annual expenditure of $2 billion.

The CSS illustrates how GCAP develops knowledge-led solutions. The Climate Screening module assesses the vulnerability of a project to climate change using scorecards for each sector. The Adaptation Review and Evaluation Procedures identify adaptation measures for a project. A different set of procedures is followed depending on the category of the project.

The CSS uses open source software developed by our partners in Hyderabad, India. The CSS has been ported to the Bank and fully owned by their ICT staff.

GCAP continues to develop the modules in its own online Knowledge Space:

• ASSESS uses scorecards to screen projects

• OPTIONS and APPRAISE evaluate strategies, measures and technologies

• CLIMATE interprets three levels of climate change data

• Country factsheets

Partnering with Atkins brings in-depth technical expertise

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CRGE PROJECT

Ethiopia Climate Resilience Strategy for Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use Climate Resilient Green Economy.

Ethiopia’s vision is to transform its development through investment in a Climate-Resilient Green Economy. GCAP, with our Joint Venture partner in Addis Ababa, GeoSAS, led the Phase 2 climate resilience strategy for agriculture, forestry and land use.

The strategy assessed the risks of climate change on key sectors of Ethiopia’s economy and identified priorities for building climate resilience to ensure that Ethiopia reaches its ambitious growth and green economy targets, including taking advantage of the opportunities for implementation. The project pioneered an innovative methodology for the economics of climate resilience including multi-attribute assessment of options and phased strategies. Finance options included scenarios of development funding that shift the Ministry of Agriculture's annual budget of nearly $1 billion from humanitarian crises to sound resource management and transforming the sector.

The team worked closely with technical committees in government and developed skills and technical knowledge through two short courses in Ethiopia.

GCAP continues to develop the pioneering methodologies behind the CRGE:

• OPTIONS appraisal using multi-attribute techniques

• Value of climate information in supporting development planning

• Adaptation Planning Zones to integrate socio-economic vulnerability and priority strategies

Partnering with GeoSAS experts builds national capacity

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PROADAPT PROJECT

Private Models for Agricultural Climate Adaptation in Honduras and Nicaragua Designing effective projects led by the private sector.

PROADAPT, an initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank, has a distinctive mission: to support the private sector in Latin America through technical cooperation to ensure resilience to climate change. GCAP and its Joint Venture partner, Grupo Laera, worked intensively in Honduras and Nicaragua to develop projects in agriculture (cacao, honey, milk) and tourism. Four project concepts were developed based on GCAP’s Climate Resilient Business-Process Methodology. The projects involve supply chains with potential Executing Agencies, cooperatives of producers and business associations.

An extensive knowledge base, infographics and summary booklets were delivered to the client. Interactive workshops and a three-week course in Oxford supported in-house capacity in the IDB.

A framework for monitoring resilience provided an innovative approach based on the M&E context and private sector management capacity. An online Dashboard was designed to deliver an effective tool for the Bank’s staff and development partners.

Innovative tools:

• CLIMATE Factsheets

• OPTIONS to select actions

• MLE Dashboard

• Teamwork for sharing documents

• Academy modules for stakeholder workshops

• Infographics

Joint venture with Grupo Laera inspires innovation

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ADAPTATION ACADEMY

We enable people to navigate complex adaptation landscapes. Emerge, be empowered as a change-maker.

The Oxford Adaptation Academy is our flagship programme bringing innovation to practice. In partnership with the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment in the University of Oxford, the course brings together world-leading experts, practitioners and intellectuals to pioneer transformations toward climate-resilient futures.

Now in its 6th year, the Oxford Academy empowers participants as change-makers as they understand working with stakeholders and their own leadership. Technical analysis of adaptation strategies, options and projects integrates with the adaptation landscape of development pathways, sustainability and finance. Participants rated the course as 4.8 out of 5 each of the past two years.

The 2015 course, 9th to 25th August, includes:

• Wayfinding in the adaptation landscape

• Theory of Change

• Rating risk and sustainability

• Decision making and uncertainty

• Urban resilience

• Enterprise finance

• Leadership and personal coaching

• Vulnerability assessment

• Disaster risk reduction

• Climate science & scenarios

• Economics of adaptation

• Monitoring and Evaluation for Learning

• Stakeholder analysis and engagement

• Process models for private sector resilience

Emerge, be empowered.

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KNOWLEDGE SPACE

We integrate global data and local experience to build resilience into your processes.

Every organization working on climate protection, adaptation processes and risk management needs to manage a vast stream of data for delivering knowledge-led solutions. These systems cut across many knowledge domains—no single approach or tool is adequate for all users' needs. GCAP has developed a collaboration platform to deliver innovative and effective Adaptation Solutions for our clients. It is our own laboratory for innovation in our adaptation toolkit.

The Knowledge Space enables and provides access to the foremost online and GCAP proprietary climate adaptation resources and is a catalyst for building extensive professional communities of practitioners and experts. The Knowledge Space provides our Clients with tools and apps for providing insight into the effects of climate change on their citizens, environments and businesses and assistance to develop sustainable adaptation solutions to meet their unique climate change vulnerabilities.

Knowledge Space delivers best value knowledge tools such as: • Comprehensive Adaptation Planning

Methodology

• Adaptation Planning Services

• Climate Safeguard System

• Data visualization

• CLIMATE envelopes at various scales

• OPTIONS and APPRAISE to select effective actions

• MLE Dashboard to support learning

• Document Hub of key resources

Ready for a warmer world?

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WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?

Experience • Our core leadership team has over 300 years of experience working

with both private and public sectors

• Our vast experience enables us to develop effective approaches and tools

Global Reach • We have a network of 2000 professionals

• Our Principals and Adaptation Academy alumni bring in-depth local expertise

Leadership and Innovation

• We nurture leadership and innovation with our clients and partners

• We support the professional Community of Practice to be change-makers

Comprehensive Solutions • We provide adaptation solutions for your needs

• We integrate fields of expertise, from climate science to risk management, from natural resource management to urban planning, from economics to finance and business models

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