PACE-SD guidebook: participartory vulnerability and adaptation assessment

This Participatory Vulnerability and Adaptation (V&A) Assessment is a core component of the overall PACE-SD V&A Assessment and Action Metholodogy. It is a comprehensive and participatory assessment that guides communities through a process in which to identify appropriate and sustainable activities to enhance their adaptvie capacity to the impacts of climate change.

Once a community has been identified to partake in climate change adaptation activities, this V&A assessment is to be carried out. This implies that the project assessment team would have already visited the site during the process of site selection and would have some knowledge of the community and its vulnerability to the adverse impacts of climate change from the information gathered.