The Framework is an ongoing adaptation strategy that includes prevention, preparedness, response, and restoration. The development of detailed disaster reduction plans at national, local, and institutional levels, and their integration with economic and social development plans, is a key component of this strategy. A very important piece is also the knowledge increase on hazards, vulnerabilities, and risks throughout the results of studies oriented to produce detailed temporal and spatial information.

The aim of this study is to strengthen the capability of Suriname to deal with the aspects of sea level rise and other relevant aspects of climate change and to contribute to the formulation of national policy and planning, aiming to promote and strengthen sustainable livelihood within the coastal zone. The central theme is therefore the identification of adaptation measures and formulation of national policy and planning.

The waru waru restoration project began in 1991 in the southern Andean department of Puno, Peru.  The aim is to recover a technology, invented by the Tiahuanaco culture, that fell into disuse around 1100 A.D.  Archaeological excavations of raised fields demonstrated that farmers began constructing them by 1000 BC.  Waru waru, or raised field, agriculture makes it possible to bring into production the low-lying, floodprone, poorly drained lands found all over the Altiplano.  The project involves the restoration of earthworks that are central to the technology.

In 2004, GTZ started a project entitled “Adaptation to Climate Change through Risk Management” with selected rural communities on the south-western Pacific coast and in the autonomous North Atlantic Region with the aim of improving their capacity to adapt to climate change by means of strengthened disaster risk management.  The project also sought to integrate this capacity into their planning processes. One part of the project was conducted with indigenous Miskito communities along the Rio Tungky in the Autonomous Region of the North Atlantic.

The Red Cross of Nicaragua has four strategies to address climate change: (1) increase awareness of climate change and disasters through seminars and informal discussion with stakeholders from the local to national level; (2) work with the Ministry of Education to disseminate information on climate change to teachers and students by integrating the issue in the curricula and in research programmes; (3) raise awareness about the impacts of climate change with community leaders; and (4) improve the Red Cross’ capacities in the areas of disaster preparedness and response. 

PASOLAC (Programa para la Agricultura Sostenible en las Laderas de América Central) offers technical, methodological, and financial support to more than 50 member organizations that work with local farmers and communities on the hillsides to implement sustainable agriculture practices, particularly Sustainable Soil and Water Management (SSWM) techniques. The program is characterized by a participatory and demand-driven approach, which aims to build capacities and cooperation among member organizations and encourage long-term adoption of SSWM practices by farmers.

This project has two components. First, to counteract flooding from sea level rise, this project will improve the ability of the Government to manage water levels behind the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) dam during heavy rains by improving internal water flows in the EDWC and increasing EDWC drainage relief capacity to the Demerara River and eventually the Atlantic Ocean.

The project is aimed at strengthening capacities regarding climate change related risks, implemented in the Department of Chiquimula by the Guatemalan Red Cross with technical and financial assistance from the Netherlands Red Cross. The target is communities in Santa Rosa district. To date, disaster preparedness training has been initiated and the community has participated in the formation of a local disaster reduction committee. Link to Source

A collaborative effort between the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, consultants, and local NGOs, this project involves: (1) creation of baselines to assess the traditional knowledge and the local perception of climate change, as well as the local changes in adaptation; (2) workshops with key players to validate the results of the baselines; (3) assessment of the adaptation activities implemented by different institutions and communications in direct relation to climate change; (4) training programs on climate change, especially drought, and adaptation; (5) identification and

The purpose of this government project is to strengthen organization and capacities of local rural people to incorporate adaptation to climate change  in their socio-economic activities, within a land planning framework for the territory located in the central coastal plain of El Salvador.  It will accomplish this objective through 7 lines of action:  (1) diversification and incorporation of additional added value to agricultural activities to increase the capacity to cope with climate change; (2) promotion of non-agricultural economic initiatives to decrease impacts associated with agricu