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weADAPT:
sharing information and learning lessons on
climate adaptation issues

2. Audience and objectives
 Create a broad community of practitioners and
researchers, drawing upon the collaboration with planners
and decision-makers, to accelerate development of
professional and institutional capacity for adaptation.
 Users will find accessible information and tools to guide
development of adaptation projects
 Users will be able to upload their experiences, sharing
successes (and challenges), to reflect and learn from each
other.
 The ultimate aim of the platform is to promote adaptation as
a process of socio-institutional learning, supported by
shared information on present and future risks.

3. + Questions we have tried
to explore
 In what ways can we represent
both high quality scientific and local knowledge?
 How do we build and link communities of practise?
 How do we build trust and break down barriers in sharing?
 How do we encourage this knowledge to be used?
 How do we support continuous learning?

4. Principles

5. +
Demand identified
 Adaptation decision making support
 Linking to downscaled climate data
 Increasing knowledge sharing capacity
 Improving collaboration, building on existing
research; avoiding redundancy
 Learning about other networks
 Linking different knowledge systems

6. Guidance and Experience
 Knowledge Base
 Pages
 Guides
 Briefing Notes
 Climate change science for development planning
 Climate Change Information Portal
 Uncertainty
 Manuals and Toolkits
 Vulnerability assessment and analysis
 Adaptation Decision Making Review
 Adaptation Layer
 500+ case studies (placemarks) of lessons learnt

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8. +
Knowledge Base
Of articles on
Key emerging
Areas in
Climate Adaptation

9. Initiatives / topics

10. Adaptation Layer

11. Knowledge sharing
opportunities,
synthesis of lessons
learned and
communication of
climate adaptation
stories

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Why weADAPT?
 Going beyond knowledge sharing
 Integrating knowledge in intelligent ways
 Ensuring it is from a variety of credible sources
 Linking communities of practise with different
needs and approaches
 Linking different types of knowledge

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Lessons learnt
 More ownership
 The process ensures quality
 Increase knowledge sharing capacity
 Improved links between content and people
 Facilitating ability to grow networks
 Intelligent and intuitive – tailored and
personalised
 User-friendly urls needed

14. +
Lessons learnt
 Less technical content (linking communities)
 Improved editing interface (user friendly)
 Improved quality control
 Links to climate information in useful ways
(CIP)
 Incorporating GIS for ‘Adaptation Stories’

15. +
Ownership
 Different levels of user access

16. +
Processes for sharing
content

17. +
Integrating information

18. + Bridging networks

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Breaking down barriers
to sharing
 Contributions = visibility
 For individual
 For organisation
 Between individuals and organisations
Increasing multiplicity of links to many

other types of content

20. +
Link to people interested in the same issues and grow your
network

21. +
Visibility
Increasing visibility of both individual and organisation

22. +
Visibility

23. +

24. +
COBAM

25. +

26. +
 Add adaptation projects to the weADAPT
Adaptation Layer - search for what others are
doing!

27. +
Make edits... ...and view changes

28. +
Adaptation Layer
Using search terms you are interested in and create
adaptation stories (example video) by downloading
placemarks

29. +
Knowledge base article
All content is meaningfully integrated in our Knowledge Base,
creating intelligent links with other data

30. + Forests and climate change
All data is linked in to all other relevant content including articles,
projects, individuals, partner organisations and other initiatives and
networks
weadapt.org/forests

31. +
weadapt.org/oxfam

32. +
weadapt.org/using-climate-information

33. + Initiative on adaptation decision-
making
weadapt.org/adaptation-decision-making

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Stories and Narratives of
Adaptation
 Experience
 Climate Data
 Other biophysical
data (e.g. WEAP, agro-
ecological zones, etc)
 Forest change simulation
 Data on adaptation projects
 = stories and key messages

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Next steps
 Integrating and linking to downscaled climate data
– see user journeys at
weadapt.org/using-climate-information
 Adaptation decision-making – see tools review at
weadapt.org/adaptation-decision-making
 Adaptation Decision Explorer (ADx) prototype for
screening adaptation options

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Linking to other platforms

37. +
Links back to weADAPT

38. Principles
 Adaptation is
 a complex process of socio-institutional learning
 recognises often competing stakeholder goals and processes
 uses information at various levels and in many ways
 The future is uncertain, but we know enough to act
 Adaptation strategies and actions should be robust against a
wide variety of future conditions; rather than assuming we can
predict future impacts and provide climate proofing measures.
 The value of information is in
 reducing the uncertainty in making a decision
 integrating climate change and climate change adaptation in 'good
enough' practice in risk management

39. Integration with climate
data at University of Cape
Town

40. Coverage of Asian station
dataset now available in CIP

41. Landing pages

42. + Why weADAPT?
 High quality content, with a sustainable model
 Credible information
 Rigorous editing
 Relevant to practitioners, researchers, planners and policy makers
 Accessible – high and low bandwidth
 Practical – linking to networks on the ground e.g. AfricaAdapt,
Sumernet
 Provides decision-making support
 Downscaled climate data and guidance – coming soon!

43. + Next steps
1. Register at weADAPT.org
2. Add your organisation and logo
3. Fill out your profile 
4. Sign up to initiatives you are interested in
For questions or technical problems contact us at
info@weadapt.org

44. Get in touch
 We are always responding to requests for new
features to allow networks to use their site space
in their own ways
 We are also seeking Knowledge Partners who
wish to take over topic areas or create new ones
and manage them for their own networks
For questions on weADAPT contact us at
info@weadapt.org
Thank you