Community-based adaptation  is best described as a 'community-led process based on meaningful engagement and proactive involvement of local individuals and organisations' . Enabling CBA projects to succeed relies on gaining a good understanding of the sociopolitical context within which the communities operate, including such key issues as land tenure arrangements and ownerships, gender and decision-making processes that operate on the ground .This also includes the broader and often more urgent development issues that impact on communities' well-being . Community-based projects demonstrate in the Pacific that communities' vulnerabilities, priorities and needs might be a better and more effective entry point for climate adaptation than framing projects solely around climate change .This is supported by a recent review of 32 CBA initiatives in the Pacific where initiatives that were locally funded and implemented were more successful than those with external international funding . Initiatives that integrated EbA and climate awareness raising also performed better .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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