Garama 3C Ltd. services

Garama works to build the capacity of those working in the field of development, particularly in developing countries, to respond to climate change by identifying risks and appropriate adaptation responses, and by transitioning to low-carbon, climate resilient development pathways. Our capacity building activities include the following:

Garama personnel have extensive experience in climate change adaptation, ranging from the design and delivery of training on adaptation for a variety of organisations, to input to the design of adaptation projects.

A key challenge for adaptation interventions and investments is establishing whether they have delivered, or are likely to deliver, genuine adaptation and resilience benefits. A number of factors make this challenge especially difficult, including the timescales over which climate change will occur, the lack of any universal adaptation metrics, and the need to account for changing climatic ‘baselines’ (e.g. if development performance is deteriorating in the face of intensifying climate risks despite adaptation actions, have these actions been ineffective, or have they prevented an even worse situation?).

The term ‘resilience’ is used widely in the field of development, particularly in relation to climate variability and change. However, like ‘vulnerability’ and ‘adaptive capacity’, resilience remains a vague, confusing, and contested concept. There is little agreement on how to define, let alone operationalise or measure, resilience, and its relationship to other commonly used concepts such as transformation and transformational adaptation remains opaque. Despite these challenges, many development initiatives explicitly seek to build or enhance resilience. The focus on resilience by development programmes and climate funds means that there is a demand for monitoring frameworks and indicators to track resilience at various scales.