Outil de planification pour l’adaptation, les moyens de subsistance et les écosystèmes

The ALivE tool guides users through a three-phase process: collecting data on livelihoods and ecosystems, analyzing risks and prioritizing EbA options, and integrating these options into policy and planning. It emphasizes a participatory approach, gender sensitivity, and adaptive management to ensure sustainable climate resilience.

• The ALivE tool is structured into three modules and five progressive steps: understanding the context, analyzing risks for ecosystems and livelihoods, identifying and prioritizing EbA options, designing project activities, and identifying monitoring and evaluation (M&E) elements.
• Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is defined as the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services to help people adapt to the adverse effects of climate change, involving sustainable management, conservation, and restoration of ecosystems.
• Effective EbA requires the integration of climate information, a participatory community-led approach, gender considerations, adaptive management principles, and multi-level governance.
• The tool employs a multi-criteria analysis to prioritize EbA options based on five effectiveness criteria: risk reduction potential, adaptive capacity improvement, benefits for vulnerable groups/gender equality, sustainable use of biodiversity, and ecosystem resilience.
• EbA options are further filtered by feasibility using at least four criteria from a default list, which includes affordable cost, technical feasibility, political feasibility, maintenance cost, monitorability, flexibility, number of beneficiaries, and cultural appropriateness.
• The manual identifies specific EbA options across different ecosystems, such as mangrove restoration for coastal protection, agroforestry to reduce crop damage from extreme temperatures, and sustainable grassland management for pastoralist resilience.
• To ensure long-term sustainability and scaling, EbA must be integrated into existing policies and planning processes, such as National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), which provide strategic opportunities for funding and institutionalization.
• The tool advocates for adaptive management, an iterative process of planning, implementing, monitoring, and adjusting actions based on observed impacts to reduce uncertainty associated with climate variability.

APA

Terton, A., & Dazé, A. (2018). Outil de planification pour l’adaptation, les moyens de subsistance et les écosystèmes. International Institute for Sustainable Development. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/alive-tool-manual-french.pdf

Chicago

Terton, Anika, and Angie Dazé. Outil de planification pour l’adaptation, les moyens de subsistance et les écosystèmes. International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2018. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/alive-tool-manual-french.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{terton2018outil, author = {Terton, Anika and Dazé, Angie}, title = {{Outil de planification pour l’adaptation, les moyens de subsistance et les écosystèmes}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2018}, url = {https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/alive-tool-manual-french.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }