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Cristal

CRiSTAL is a community-based risk screening tool designed to assess the impact of projects on adaptive capacity related to climate change and livelihoods. It provides a structured approach for project designers and managers to understand the interactions between climate risks and community livelihoods, facilitating project adjustments to enhance adaptive capacity. The tool has undergone extensive testing and revisions, and aims to be adaptable for various social groups and contexts.

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Cristal

CRiSTAL is a community-based risk screening tool designed to assess the impact of projects on adaptive capacity related to climate change and livelihoods. It provides a structured approach for project designers and managers to understand the interactions between climate risks and community livelihoods, facilitating project adjustments to enhance adaptive capacity. The tool has undergone extensive testing and revisions, and aims to be adaptable for various social groups and contexts.

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CRiSTAL

Community-based Risk Screening Tool –


Adaptation & Livelihoods

Anne Hammill, IISD – Carmenza Robledo


[email protected] [email protected]
CRiSTAL: Introduction
Rationale
„ Community-level projects may
improve adaptive capacity or
constrain it

Purpose
„ Help users to systematically
understand the links between
livelihoods and climate

„ Enable users to assess a


project’s impact on community-
level adaptive capacity

„ Assist users in making project


adjustments to improve its
impact on adaptive capacity
CRiSTAL: Who? How?
User
„ Community-level project
designers and managers

Approach
„ Draw on Environmental Impact
Assessment model
„ Use SL Framework to focus on
elements of coping / adaptive
capacity at local level
„ Logical, user-friendly process

„ Offer in multiple formats and


as part of a suite of tools
CRiSTAL: Assumptions

„ Useful and usable local Engaging stakeholders


climate information not
accessible / available
Assessing Current Vulnerability
„ Can use current climate
situation as basis for Understanding future climate risks
analysis

„ Users – i.e. project Developing an adaptation strategy


designers/managers – have
adequate information on Implementing & evaluating adaptation
local climate and livelihood
context to use tool quickly
Developing & Testing CRiSTAL
„ Brainstorming: Designing structure, guiding questions
„ Mock-up prepared; Presented to Task Force
„ Hardcopy produced, elaborating questions & process

„ Project Team review of elaborated tool


„ Tool sent out to IUCN and IC field staff for review
„ Feedback from field incorporated; Test sites selected
„ Field tests in Mali, Bangladesh
„ First computer mock-up prepared
„ Internal Project Team meeting
„ Tool revised

„ Field tests in Tanzania, Nicaragua & Sri Lanka


„ Continued revisions to tool
„ Final revisions
„ User’s Manual

„ Capacity building
„ Concrete applications (e.g. Zambia & Canada)
„ Continuous outreaching and improvement
CRiSTAL’s Structure
M1: Synthesizing info on M2: Planning and managing
climate and livelihoods projects for adaptation

Q1: What is the climate context Q3: What are impacts of project
- Impacts of climate change? activities on livelihood
- Current hazards resources that are…
- Impacts of hazards - Vulnerable to climate risks?
- Coping strategies - Important to coping?

Q2: What is livelihood context? Q4: How can project activities


be adjusted to reduce
- Resources? vulnerability and enhance
- How affected by hazards? adaptive capacity?
- How important to coping? - Synergies and barriers
Testing & Using CRiSTAL
„ Tests
‰ September 2005 – July 2006
‰ Mali, Bangladesh, Tanzania,
Nicaragua, Sri Lanka

„ Process:
‰ Preparation
‰ Field visits / consultations
„ Staff in capital & field site
„ Partner organisations
„ Academics / researchers
„ Government representatives
„ Visit project site
„ Community stakeholder meetings
‰ Initial results presented
‰ Wrap-up, reporting
CRiSTAL Consultations
„ Local visits & consultations key

„ 2 General Approaches
‰ Consultations feed into tool
‰ Go through tool with community

„ Consultation formats
‰ Informal discussions
‰ Organised workshops
‰ Something in between…
‰ Multiple consultations – focus on
different social groups

„ Consultations involve:
‰ Introductory discussion on climate
change
‰ Current climate stresses
‰ Livelihoods Æ impacts, coping
strategies
Findings & Lessons
„ CRiSTAL provides a framework for understanding the links between climate change,
people’s livelihoods and potential impacts of project activities on adaptive capacities

„ But it is really only a framework – it won’t do the analysis for you. CRiSTAL
organises information, offers definitions, tries to demonstrate links, and provides
prompts for analysis

„ CRiSTAL framework is adaptable – can be used at different levels (household,


policy), as often and for as many different social groups as desired (women, men,
fishermen, etc.)

„ Testing / application process in itself was a useful awareness-raising exercise, both


for project staff and local communities

„ Can also be a validation process – validating local observations; existing project


strategies

„ Adjustments are often small, not asking project managers to do anything drastically
different – showing them how strengthening certain activities can contribute to climate
change adaptation

„ Participatory testing / application is time-consuming but essential

CRiSTAL can complement other tools on the ‘market’


Potential adjustments / additions to
CRiSTAL
Software
„ Current programming not ideal –
clunky from turning spreadsheet into
desktop application
‰ Rewritten as executable file
‰ Redone as web application
‰ Rewritten as Excel template (no
programming other than formulas)
Structure
„ Weighting responses
„ Sequencing:
‰ Start with livelihood context?
‰ Bring climate change in at the end
Enhancements
„ Translation
„ User’s Manual with more content /
ideas on consultation process
„ Accompanying workbook
Next steps / adaptations of CRiSTAL

„ IUCN Zambia

„ Training
‰ Eastern and Southern
Africa
‰ West Africa

„ Application in Canadian
Prairies

„ Working with others –


CARE?

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