Enabling adaptation strategies: knowing what works and what doesn't. by SEA Change CoP

Hi Zak, My pleasure! We will showcase the Climate CoLab as well in next week's newsletter, so hopefully that will generate some more proposals coming your way. Talking about 'coming your way'; is the Climate CoLab also organizing anything on campus? I'll be in Boston end of May, early June, and would be interested to know about climate change related events taking place in Boston / at MIT around that time.

Thanks for your submission! We really appreciate the focus on reporting failure and think it’s a very noble goal. Additionally, the communities of practice approach is an interesting one in seeking collaboration across a diverse body of stakeholders. In future revisions, we would like to see a clearer vision of how COPs (or a specific COP? Existing? New?) contribute to your goals, for example by including a specific example or two of possible/existing applications, including the adaptation challenge(s) that your example addresses. We would also like to see all proposal authors anticipate some potential limitations of their approach or other challenges to implementation, then discuss potential strategies for meeting those challenges. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dear judges, Great to hear the proposal has been taken forward! The proposal would not result in evaluations and all actions are described under the header "What actions do you propose?". The actions would focus on learning from evaluations by sharing and discussion evaluation results and use them in developing knowledge materials that can be used for evidence-informed decision-making on climate change adaptation interventions. The development of such knowledge materials, and the identification for specific knowledge needs, would take place through the Community members, collaborative partnerships with other actors and the wider field of climate knowledge brokers. Other points are to change people's mindset towards evaluation learning and reporting on failure will have a positive effect well beyond the field of climate change adaptation. Second point would be to mend the disconnect between academic research and climate change practitioners, by developing cross-pollenation between the academic world and people implementing on the ground. And at the same time we can learn about what works and what doesn't towards knowledge brokerage, information dissemination and knowledge generation through communities of practice. This information can be used in other fields where learning is taking place through networks and communities of practice.