Presented by Julie Dekens, IISD/NAP Global Network, in September 2020 at the Virtual Learning Event on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) for National Adaptation in Pacific Small Island Developing States organized by organized by the NAP Global Network in collaboration with the Pacific Resilience Partnership (PRP)

1. Plenary:
Using standardized vulnerability assessments at
the community level to inform M&E of national
adaptation
JULIE DEKENS
Senior Researcher,
NAP Global
Network/International
Institute for Sustainable
Development

2. How can
vulnerability
assessments
(VAs) contribute
to the NAP
process?
• VAs provide baseline data
(evidences) on risk factors, climate
impacts, vulnerabilities and/or the
uptake of adaptation actions
• A basis for:
• Identifying adaptation needs &
prioritizing options
• Setting adaptation targets
• Allocating resources
• Evaluating whether adaptation
actions are reducing vulnerability

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Is your country using a
standardized approach to
climate vulnerability or risk
assessments?

4. What is the biggest challenge to
using a standardized approach to
climate vulnerability assessment?
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5. What is the biggest benefit to using
a standardized approach to climate
vulnerability assessment?
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6. FOUR OVERVIEW QUESTIONS
INTEGRATED VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT

7. What is the
Integrated
Vulnerability
Assessment
(IVA)?
• A national, government-led
standardized approach to assessing
community vulnerability to climate
change and disaster risks
• ‘Integrated’ = multi-sectoral
• ‘Vulnerability’ = vulnerability of villages
and islands to climate and non-climate
hazards
• ‘Assessment’ = evaluation of impacts and
responses by sector experts and
communities
• A process of data and information
management to inform policy and
decision making on climate resilient
development

8. Why was the IVA approach developed?
• Increase coordination
within government and
among communities,
government and
development partners
• Coherent approach to VAs
• Pacific Islands IVA
Framework
developed in 2016 by
regional organizations

9. • Types of data and information:
• Vulnerability issues prioritisation
and qualitative description of
issues
• Key hazards and impacts
• Adaptation responses
• Methods and tools:
• Desktop research
• Participatory Rapid Appraisal
(village level)
• Household surveys
• Sector experts’ consultations
• GIS and satellite imagery
What types of data and information are collected
and how?

10. • Coordinated by the agency
responsible for climate change
• Data collection and analysis
involve government and non-
government actors from different
sectors
• Field data collected by trained
surveyors using mobile phones
and/or tablets and uploaded to an
online national IVA database
What does the IVA process look like?

11. REGIONAL STATUS
INTEGRATED VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT

12. Status of the IVA in three pacific SIDS (as of July 2020)
Kiribati Solomon Islands Tuvalu
Population  ~117,600
 21 inhabited atolls
 ~670,000
 347 inhabited islands (9
provinces + capital territory)
 ~11,650
 9 inhabited islands
Island IVA
data
 On going since 2012
(13/~21 completed)
 Field methodology
guide
 On going since 2017 (6/~8
completed for Malaita
province)
 Surveyors trainings (40
graduates, 6 provincial
officers, NGOs)
 Completed 2017-2020
(14 surveys*)
National IVA
database
 Datasets: IVA data,
policy databases, GIS,
household survey
dashboards
 Supporting docs: User
manual, management
plan
 Datasets: IVA data,
documents, GIS platform,
COVID-19 database
 Datasets: IVA data,
dashboards, GIS
platform, inventory
Island-level
IVA reports
 6 completed
 4 draft
 6 completed (Malaita
province)
 2 completed
 12 draft
*8 outer islands and 6 Funafuti
localities

13. Some key results
• High level government support
• E.g. IVA integrated in the national
budget in the Solomon islands
• Supporting cross sectoral
collaboration and information sharing
between local and national levels
• E.g. IVA database handed over to
the Bureau of Statistics in Kiribati in
March 2020
• Already informing decision making at
the local level

14. Emerging
lessons
learned
• Sustainability and scaling up require
more investments in capacity
building and peer exchanges for
learning
• Digital technologies play a key role
in facilitating data and information
management
• The national IVA databases have the
potential to inform the M&E of
national adaptation but will take time
to develop fully

15. LINKS WITH M&E OF NATIONAL ADAPTATION
INTEGRATED VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT

16. Four ways IVA can inform the M&E of national
adaptation
• Baselines to monitor trends in
the vulnerability and risks
contexts
• Measuring progress on
gender and social inclusion
• Vulnerable groups and
community participation
• Linking local, sectoral and
national adaptation M&E

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