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Scaling Up Pacific adaptation to climate change
Impact methodology: Learning from the past, making sense of impact to inform the future.

About GCCA+ SUPA
The Global Climate Change Alliance Plus Scaling up Pacific Adaptation
(GCCA+ SUPA) is about scaling up climate change adaptation
measures in specific sectors supported by knowledge management
and capacity building. The 4.5-year project (2019-2023) is funded
with € 14.89 million from the European Union (EU) and implemented by
the Pacific Community (SPC) in partnership with the Secretariat of the
Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and The University
of the South Pacific (USP), in collaboration with the governments
and peoples of Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM),
Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Tonga and Tuvalu.

A component of the project involves designing an impact methodology
which will assess past adaptation interventions. The figure on the right
illustrates the process.

Purpose
The objective is to develop a framework for examining the residual
impacts of climate change adaptation interventions.

Target Audience

The target groups are policy makers, disaster risk reduction managers,
public health-development practitioners, budget planners in national
and local authorities, regional organizations, locally based and
international non-government organizations, interest groups in the
public-private sector.

Impact Methodology: Adaptation
A framework for use by future practitioners to aid them in planning (iii) Successful lessons and practices. How vulnerable groups
climate change adaptation interventions. In maintaining an objective (persons with disabilities, elderly, women, youth or migrants) were
focus there will inevitably be some aspects of subjectivity with four involved or had their livelihood improved by the intervention.
sets of criteria developed:
(iv) Overall sustainability of the completed climate change
(i) Effectiveness. The extent to which the project’s results were adaptation interventions.
attained, and the project’s specific objectives achieved.
The time frame to develop, test and communicate this impact
(ii) Sustainable social and behavioural changes. A theory assessment methodology to the target countries is from mid-2020

of change which enables stakeholders to embed an intervention to mid-2023.
within a larger strategy, articulates a vision of meaningful
social change.

You can learn more about the GCCA+ SUPA project by visiting: https://gccasupa.org/

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10 Islands Business, October 2021