Transcript Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of climate Resilience of farmers and Pastoralists Caterina Batello (AGPME) John Choptiany (AGPME); Suzanne Phillips (AGPMC); Benjamin Graub (AGPME) Schéma.

Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of climate
Resilience of farmers and Pastoralists
Caterina Batello (AGPME)
John Choptiany (AGPME); Suzanne Phillips (AGPMC); Benjamin Graub (AGPME)
Schéma Holistique pour l’Auto-évaluation
Paysanne de la Résilience climatique
The development of SHARP has received funding from the European Union
through the Improved Global Governance for Hunger Reduction Programme.
Resilience context
• CC, population growth and conflict have pushed
some regions into permanent crises
• Political will for increased resilience: e.g. AU’s
Malabo Declaration: 1/3 of African farmers to be
climate-resilient by 2025
• There are no resilience self-assessments at the
household level (but there are many tools e.g.
FAO’s RIMA effort on a broader scale)
• Need to understand both “academic” resilience &
the needs and desires of the people most affected
What is SHARP?
• SHARP is a self-assessment of climate resilience of
farmers and pastoralists at the household level
• Developed over 1.5 years
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Initial workshop in Burkina Faso
4 field tests (Uganda x2, Senegal, Mali)
E-discussion
150+ reviewers
• Tablet-based participatory and interactive tool
• Implementation in GEF-funded CC adaptation projects
in sub-Saharan Africa over the next 3-5 years by
AGPME & AGPMC under FAO’s SO2
3 Phases
• Phase 1:
– Interactive self-assessment of resilience
• Phase 2:
– Participatory discussions with farmers/local leaders,
government etc.
• Phase 3:
– Integrate results to perform temporal/ geographical/
practice analyses and combine with CC data
– Incorporate data for use in FFS/ government
policies/ upcoming projects
The SHARP survey
• The survey has 4 sections: practices,
environment, social and economic
• 51 questions, partially tailored to
farmers/pastoralists
• Questions matched to 13 resilience indicators
outlined by Cabell and Oelofse (2012)
• Central idea is that facilitators empower
farmers to self-assess their resilience to CC
and discuss options
Learning participatory tool
• Farmers have interactive learning and have a
dialogue during FFS
• Integrated into
FFS curricula
over a season
• Immediate
feedback
Scoring
Question
Aspect
measuring
Scale/ rating Adequacy scale/ rating Importance scale/
(/10)
(/10)
rating (/10)
(a)
(b)
(c)
Land
degradation
Types of land
degradation
observed
0=10,
1=7,
2=4,
3+=0
Not at all = 0,
Not at all = 10, A little
A little = 2.5, Average =5, = 7.5, Average, =5, A
A lot =7.5, Completely =10 lot =2.5, Very = 0
Group
membership
Number of
groups a
member/
involved with
0=0,
1=7,
2+=10
Not at all = 0,
Not at all = 10, A little
A little = 2.5, Average =5, = 7.5, Average, =5, A
A lot =7.5, Completely =10 lot =2.5, Very = 0
Market access Access to market No access=0
Not at all = 0,
Not at all = 10, A little
Intermittent=4 A little = 2.5, Average =5, = 7.5, Average, =5, A
Sustained access A lot =7.5, Completely =10 lot =2.5, Very = 0
=10
Relative resilience = response score + adequacy + importance
Relative
resilience
ranking
(a+b+c)
The questions
Each question has 4 parts:
– Acquire quantifiable information on the resource
level (e.g. # water sources, level of access to
information)
– Perceived adequacy of resource level for their
livelihood (Likert scale)
– Perceived importance of specific resource to their
livelihood (Likert scale)
– Space for elaboration/explanation
Resilience ranking and rapid assessment
• Ranking represents priority levels for improvements to
be made to farm system
• Once a resilience ranking is obtained:
– Individual level priorities identified
– Resilience of different participants compared
– Resilience scores can be compared for different
groups: m/f, f/p, etc.
– Priorities at community level
• Discussions with facilitators and f/ps should take into
account the feasibility and potential improvement of any
actions.
Next steps
• Finalizing the tablet-based application
• Implementing in GEF-funded CCA projects: Angola, Chad,
Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Senegal, Mali, Niger
and more upcoming projects
• Publish article on literature review, SHARP methodology,
first SHARP document & Facilitators’ Guide in early 2015
• Have continual feedback to improve the tool, esp.
Phases 2 & 3
• Mainstream SHARP in more projects, incl. possibilities for
project design
THANK YOU!
BACKUP SLIDES
Definition of Resilience
is “the capacity of social, economic, and
environmental systems to cope with a
hazardous event or trend or disturbance,
responding or reorganizing in ways that
maintain their essential function, identity,
and structure, while also maintaining the
capacity for adaptation, learning, and
transformation” (IPCC, 2014).