Managing scientific information to reduce implementation gaps in adaptation projects

Climate change adaptation is the process of responding and adjusting to actual and expected climate and its effects to reduce risk, loss, and damage, ensuring the right to survive, continue livelihoods, and sustain dignified lives. Adaptation effectiveness decreases with increasing warming, hence the need for impactful projects that entail flexible, robust, and inclusive decision-making to integrate climate action into broader development efforts. From current deficiencies of adaptation projects, we intend to highlight how innovative practices emerging from both research and practice can span cross sectoral interest improved environmental co-benefits.

The adequate implementation of adaptations projects necessitates a clear understanding of development realities: weak female labor force participation, rural distress, non-farm aspirations, informal economy. At the upper lever, it is key to have a genuine uptake of legal instruments, national policies, subnational programs and schemes. Rather than focusing on a range of sectors, this presentation focuses process-based adaptation outcomes. In particular the focus on multi-functional system concept that enhances livelihoods. How to twin knowledge creation with public and private partnerships to reduce the implementation gap for adaptation through a closer connection of science to the application.