This article provides a brief overview of the rationale, functioning and future plans of the Linking Climate Adaptation Network which was one of the final components; of the DFID-funded Linking Climate Adaptation (LCA) Project. The core objective for the Network was to assist communities and adaptation experts share theoretical, policy and experiential knowledge to support community-led adaptation in developing countries. For many reasons, communities are not well connected to formal scientific and policy processes. Knowledge system approaches that analyse how knowledge and information is generated, shared, negotiated and transformed into policy partly explain why the knowledge, preferences and perspectives of the poor are not fully taken into account. Allowing geographically dispersed communities with fewer resources to communicate better upwards with those engaged in formal scientific and policy responses was thus considered an important objective of the LCA Project. This article sets out how this objective was achieved through the LCA Network by explaining the rationale for the Network, its current operation and plans for its further elaboration.
Yamin, F; Huq, S; Rahman, A
Developing the linking climate adaptation network: Progress and prospects
Ids Bulletin-Institute Of Development Studies