Good governance, equitable adaptation & building coalitions

around climate change

Edith Fernandez-Baca, Cornelia Flora, Jan Flora and Maximillian Ashwill

Perth 27-30 September 2010

Political

Capital

Cultural

Capital

Natural

Capital

Human

Capital

Financial

Capital

Social

Capital

Built

Capital

Economic Security

Social Inclusion

Healthy Ecosystem

Climate change Increased mean temp.

Melting and lack renovation of glaciers

Increase in survival of bacteria and pests

Increased extreme weather events

(drought, flood, freezes, hail)

Other changes Globalization

Earthquake

Changes in land use

Changes in distribution of wealth and

income

Changes in political regime

External driver: Climate change • Increase in extreme weather events, with resultant

increased evapotranspiration, droughts, floods, land

slides, freezes and lack of glacier renovation.

• Many communities seek to mitigate climate change

through collective action.

Why form alliances? Bridging Social Capital

+

-

Bonding

Social

Capital - +

Clientelism

Responses to climate

change are managed

by outsiders through

one local cacique

Progressive Participation

The community itself analyzes

the impacts and risks of climate

change and determines how to

respond to them.

Extreme Individualism,

The rich use financial

capital to adapt to climate

change; the poor have few

options

Strong Barriers

Community members believe

they can do nothing. Groups

within the community do not

trust each other or cooperate

with other community groups

Role of Action Alliances with Vulnerable Groups

• To collectively think about adaptation based on their own capitals (natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, built)

• Locate allies who share their values of equity, sustainability and economic security.

• Negotiate ways of combining local capitals with external capitals.

• Changing from either begging or demands to negotiation.

Stages

• The community determines their desired future understanding the context of the risks from changing climate and markets

• Determine their priorities to reach the desired future.

• Find possible allies at different levels: community, departmental, regional, national, international

• Visit and interview market, state and civil society actors to see the possibilities of investing in the community to achieve common goals

• Negotiate terms of investment

Spiraling Up: Advocacy Coalitions to Mitigate Climate Change

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Increase in human capital

Improved built capital

Better use of natural capital

Increase in financial capital

Augmentation of cultural capital

Increase in political capital

Increase in social capital

Research site

Selected communities

Yaricoa

Community

Balsapata

Community

Condoriri Sector Belinacuyo Sector

General Criteria

Watershed Ramis Ramis Ramis Ramis

Sub watershed Huancané Huancané Huayrapata Huarapata

Agroecological

site

Lake side Lake side Suni B Suni B

Ethnic group Aymara Aymara Aymara Aymara

Political-

Administrative

Prov. Huancané

Dist. Hné

Prov. Huancané

Dist. Hné

Prov. Moho

Dist. Huayrapata

Prov. Moho

Dist. Huayrapata

Population

(Approx.)

380 180 140 120

Specific Criteria

Productive

Cattle (beef) Cattle (beef) Milk production Milk production

Agricultural Fish Beef Beef

Pigs Agricultural Sheep Sheep

Climate risk Flooding Flooding Frost

Drought

Frost

Drought

Adaptation

strategies

Other sources of feed

Hydro biological resources

State aid for emergency

Other sources of feed aside from pasture

Sheds

State aid

8

Action Plan

7

Feed back to

the

community

6

Systematize

information 5

Visit

institutions

4

Capacity

building to

local research

teams

3

Identify key

actors

2

Prioritize main

issue

1

Identify

desired future

vision

Action

Coalitions

Steps followed

So far

Local research groups (LRG) have been formed and trained

Desired futures visions have been drawn

Priorities (infrastructure, pasture management and water resources)

Key actors identified

Interviews with some of these actors at local, municipal and regional level are underway

Some information has been returned to the community by the LRG

Context

Drawing map of the present

and future vision

Perceived changes

Strong rains but not when they usually would occur (affect crop growth). You can no longer predict when rain will fall

Rain one day, frost the next, extreme changes

Sudden weather changes bring increase in diseases in children

Frost when there shouldn’t be

Burning sun

Strong storms are washing away soil

Fear of weather because it has become agressive

Strong winds

Fireworks no longer useful

Before a hot day served to predict hail the next morning now changes are too sudden

Discussing desired

future conditions

Local research groups

Challenges

• The project is a short term one.

• Continuity: It will be up to the local institutional

partners and LRG to take the research to action

at community level

• building some relevant institutional actors’

cultural capital (top-down approaches) to

ensure horizontal dialogue and negotiations

Thank you

edith.fernandez-baca@condesan.org