The project Advancing Capacity to Support Climate Change Adaptation (ACCCA) builds capacity for understanding and communicating climate change risks and applies these capacities to the management of climate risks. These goals are being achieved through the execution of pilot actions in Africa and Asia to: 

• Identify and prioritize climate risks of concern to stakeholders and the climate influenced decisions that they face; 
• Assess available knowledge about risks and adaptation opportunities and synthesize the knowledge in terms that are directly relevant to stakeholder concerns and decision-making needs;
• Develop, test and disseminate risk communication materials that are designed to assist adaptation decisions;
• Use the risk communication materials in stakeholder forums to develop recommendations for climate change adaptation and promote their adoption; and
• Identify critical knowledge gaps that impede effective adaptation decisions and design assessment activities that would generate new knowledge to fill them.

The pilot actions are selected through an open call and merit review of proposals. The selected actions receive grant funding and are supported with technical assistance and training.

The ACCCA project is jointly managed by the International START Secretariat in partnership with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the Stockholm Environment Institute – Oxford Office (SEI-Oxford), the Climate System Analysis Group of the University of Cape Town (CSAG-UCT), the Southeast Asia START Regional Center (SEA-START), the Temperate East Asia START Regional Center (TEA-START), and Environmental Development Action in the Third World (ENDA). Funding for the ACCCA project is provided by the EuropeAid Co-operation Office of the European Commission and by the United Kingdom Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

For more information, contact Jon Padgham, jpadgham@start.org or visit http://www.acccaproject.org

Links:

Synthesis Report

ACCCA Brochure, December 2009

ACCCA Brochure, November 2008