Climate change is disproportionately affecting mountain regions with an amplified rate of warming compared to lower elevations and leading to rapidly changing conditions. These two booklets showcase adaptation solutions proven to be successful in response to specific issues caused, or accelerated by, climate change that negatively affect mountain communities’ livelihoods and ecosystems. The solutions were selected for their inclusive approaches, their potential to be transferred and upscaled, as well as their extended benefits to downstream communities across the two regions of East Africa and the South Caucasus.
The booklets highlight a variety of possible approaches in addressing climate change related vulnerabilities. They focus on actions and measures that already have been or are being implemented to allow for evaluation of their impacts. Enabling factors are also assessed to show the potential for replication in different sociocultural, ecological, political, or economic contexts, sectors, and geographies.
The objective of the publications is to share knowledge with local, regional, and national policymakers, practitioners, potential donors as well as local communities and the interested public about mountain adaptation solutions. Lastly, the collection aims to inspire, facilitate, and promote the uptake, transferal, and upscaling of adaptation action in the mountains of East Africa and the South Caucasus.
The Mountains ADAPT solutions booklets were produced together with a wide range of regional partners under the Adaptation at Altitude programme, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
Further mountain adaptation solutions, including from other mountain ranges, can be found in the online Adaptation at Altitude solutions portal.
