Community-Based Adaptation Costing: An integrated framework for the participatory costing of community-based adaptations to climate change in agriculture

The document introduces the Participatory Social Return on Investment (PSROI) framework, a bottom-up approach designed to provide credible local-level evidence for the costing of community-based adaptation (CBA) strategies in agriculture. It argues that top-down national estimates risk mismatching funds with actual ground requirements, whereas the PSROI framework uses participatory workshops and a novel cost-benefit analysis to evaluate economic, social, and environmental impacts. The framework was piloted in Kenya and Senegal to test its scalability and effectiveness.

• Top-down national estimates of adaptation costs may lead to a mismatch between available funds and the actual requirements on the ground, necessitating bottom-up studies that consider microeconomic dynamics and community-appropriate strategies to improve planning and validate total cost assessments.

APA

Climate and Development Knowledge Network (2014). Community-Based Adaptation Costing: An integrated framework for the participatory costing of community-based adaptations to climate change in agriculture. https://cdkn.org/resource/costing-integrated-framework-for-participatory-costing-of-community-based-adaptations-to-climate-change-in-agriculture

Chicago

Climate and Development Knowledge Network. Community-Based Adaptation Costing: An integrated framework for the participatory costing of community-based adaptations to climate change in agriculture. 2014. https://cdkn.org/resource/costing-integrated-framework-for-participatory-costing-of-community-based-adaptations-to-climate-change-in-agriculture.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climateanddevelopmentknowledgenetwork2014communitybased, author = {{Climate and Development Knowledge Network}}, title = {{Community-Based Adaptation Costing: An integrated framework for the participatory costing of community-based adaptations to climate change in agriculture}}, institution = {Climate and Development Knowledge Network}, year = {2014}, month = aug, url = {https://cdkn.org/resource/costing-integrated-framework-for-participatory-costing-of-community-based-adaptations-to-climate-change-in-agriculture}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }