Community driven vulnerability evaluation : CoDriVE-Programme Designer : a handbook incorporating vulnerability to climate change into project design and implementation /

Climate change is already creating a host of problems for rural communities especially those dependent on climate sensitive livelihoods such as agriculture, herding, fishing, forest produce gathering, to name a few. For planners, development practitioners and researchers the challenge is to understand how a community may be vulnerable to climate change and why. With this knowledge and information, communities can be mobilised to undertake measures that help them adapt to climate change, reduce its impacts and avoid development patterns/ mal-adaptation that may make communities more vulnerable at a later date. Toward this end, WOTR has developed a new tool called “CoDriVE – PD” which stands for Community Driven Vulnerability Evaluation – Programme Designer, based on over two decades of developmental experience in India.