Locally led adaptation metrics for Africa (LAMA)

About this project

In recent years, locally led adaptation has been widely recognized as an effective, efficient and equitable means of delivering climate adaptation action in Africa. However, emerging locally led adaptation practices indicate that vulnerable small-scale farmers are not often prioritized for adaptation interventions, due to a lack of frameworks and indicators to capture and report their relevance and impacts. Further, locally led adaptations are not always adequately informed by a diversity of voices, particularly those of women, youth, the elderly and a variety of income categories. This gap impedes equitable adaptation planning and financing and exacerbates the vulnerabilities of already vulnerable small-scale farmers. This project responds to this challenge by co-producing adaptation metrics with local stakeholders, including vulnerable small-scale farmers, in Kenya and Benin. The project will identify or develop the priority adaptation needs and aspirations of vulnerable groups, approaches that can be used to capture these needs, and the relevant metrics and adaptation interventions. These locally led adaptation metrics will be aligned with national processes so that they can be integrated into national adaptation planning, global adaptation assessment and financial frameworks. Co-production and citizen science will be used as co-learning tools to strengthen local capacities to assess and report inclusive locally led adaptation. Metrics developed in Kenya will be tested in…

Published by

International Development Research Centre · Other public sector

Countries

Kenya, Benin

Sectors

Research/scientific institutions

Focus

Climate adaptation · Also contributes

Published by International Development Research Centre to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 1 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-301-2-110176-001.

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