Priming adaptation pathways through adaptive co-management: Design and evaluation for developing countries
Mainstreaming climate change and future uncertainty into rural development planning in developing countries is a pressing challenge. By taking a complex systems approach to decision-making, the adaptation pathways construct provides useful principles. However, there are no examples of how to operati...
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doaj-ce448ae8fa1b4200bceb4fc8fc44cdf72020-11-25T00:52:33ZengElsevierClimate Risk Management2212-09632016-01-0112C11610.1016/j.crm.2016.01.001Priming adaptation pathways through adaptive co-management: Design and evaluation for developing countriesJ.R.A. Butler0W. Suadnya1Y. Yanuartati2S. Meharg3R.M. Wise4Y. Sutaryono5K. Duggan6CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, EcoSciences Precinct, GPO Box 2583, Brisbane, QLD 4001, AustraliaFaculty of Agriculture, University of Mataram, Jl. Majapahit 62, Mataram 83127, Nusa Tenggara Barat Province, IndonesiaFaculty of Agriculture, University of Mataram, Jl. Majapahit 62, Mataram 83127, Nusa Tenggara Barat Province, IndonesiaCSIRO Land and Water Flagship, Black Mountain, Canberra, ACT 2911, AustraliaCSIRO Land and Water Flagship, Black Mountain, Canberra, ACT 2911, AustraliaFaculty of Animal Sciences, University of Mataram, Jl. Majapahit 62, Mataram 83127, Nusa Tenggara Barat Province, IndonesiaGriffin NRM, Suite 15 Baileys Corner, Arcade 143, London Circuit, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaMainstreaming climate change and future uncertainty into rural development planning in developing countries is a pressing challenge. By taking a complex systems approach to decision-making, the adaptation pathways construct provides useful principles. However, there are no examples of how to operationalise adaptation pathways in developing countries, or how to evaluate the process. This paper describes a 4 year governance experiment in Nusa Tenggara Barat Province, Indonesia, which applied adaptive co-management (ACM) as a governance approach to ‘prime’ a transformation to adaptation pathways-based development planning. The project’s Theory of Change (ToC) consisted of three causally-linked phases which mirrored the evolutionary stages of ACM: priming stakeholders, enabling policies and programs, and implementing adaptation. The first phase established a trans-disciplinary research team to act as facilitators and brokers, a multi-stakeholder planning process demonstrating adaptation pathways practice, and trialling of ‘no regrets’ adaptation strategies in case study sub-districts. A participatory evaluation method was designed to test the ToC’s assumptions and measure ACM outcomes. Stakeholder interviews at the project’s closure indicated that through ACM, stakeholders had been successfully primed: leaders emerged, trust, cross-scale social networks and knowledge integration grew, communities were empowered, and innovative adaptation strategies were developed and tested. However, there was limited evidence of institutional change to existing planning processes. This was attributed to the absence of policy windows due to ineffective and insufficient time for political engagement, and the fluid institutional environment caused by a national decentralisation policy. To enhance the priming of adaptation pathways into development planning under these conditions, three recommendations are made: (1) provide long term support for emergent leaders and brokers to become ‘policy entrepreneurs’ who can capitalise on policy windows when they appear, (2) establish and support local livelihood innovation niches as ‘bridgeheads’ for ACM, and (3) maintain participatory evaluation amongst primary stakeholders to re-kindle ACM.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212096316000024Climate compatible developmentGovernanceIndonesiaResearch for developmentSocial learningTheory of Change |
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Priming adaptation pathways through adaptive co-management: Design and evaluation for developing countries |
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Priming adaptation pathways through adaptive co-management: Design and evaluation for developing countries |
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priming adaptation pathways through adaptive co-management: design and evaluation for developing countries |
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Mainstreaming climate change and future uncertainty into rural development planning in developing countries is a pressing challenge. By taking a complex systems approach to decision-making, the adaptation pathways construct provides useful principles. However, there are no examples of how to operationalise adaptation pathways in developing countries, or how to evaluate the process. This paper describes a 4 year governance experiment in Nusa Tenggara Barat Province, Indonesia, which applied adaptive co-management (ACM) as a governance approach to ‘prime’ a transformation to adaptation pathways-based development planning. The project’s Theory of Change (ToC) consisted of three causally-linked phases which mirrored the evolutionary stages of ACM: priming stakeholders, enabling policies and programs, and implementing adaptation. The first phase established a trans-disciplinary research team to act as facilitators and brokers, a multi-stakeholder planning process demonstrating adaptation pathways practice, and trialling of ‘no regrets’ adaptation strategies in case study sub-districts. A participatory evaluation method was designed to test the ToC’s assumptions and measure ACM outcomes. Stakeholder interviews at the project’s closure indicated that through ACM, stakeholders had been successfully primed: leaders emerged, trust, cross-scale social networks and knowledge integration grew, communities were empowered, and innovative adaptation strategies were developed and tested. However, there was limited evidence of institutional change to existing planning processes. This was attributed to the absence of policy windows due to ineffective and insufficient time for political engagement, and the fluid institutional environment caused by a national decentralisation policy. To enhance the priming of adaptation pathways into development planning under these conditions, three recommendations are made: (1) provide long term support for emergent leaders and brokers to become ‘policy entrepreneurs’ who can capitalise on policy windows when they appear, (2) establish and support local livelihood innovation niches as ‘bridgeheads’ for ACM, and (3) maintain participatory evaluation amongst primary stakeholders to re-kindle ACM. |
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Climate compatible development Governance Indonesia Research for development Social learning Theory of Change |
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