All TroFCCA regions work under a common methodological framework but each concentrates on topics of development for which forests contribute significantly. In other words, the focus of TroFCCA on each region was agreed regionally by the project team and national governments.
This task, as well as a broader adaptation policy dialogue will continue to take place in regional and national workshops, implemented in due course of the project. TroFCCA operates in three different phases as shown by the following figure:
Five main activities are undertaken during these three phases:
Activity 1 (Phase 1) :
Develop methodologies to assess the vulnerability of specified development topics deriving from impacts of climate change over forest ecosystems. Compilation of toolkits applied to the methodology.
- Select development topics.
- Undertake a literature review for the various steps of the methodology.
- Compile available tools and information on impacts of climate change over forests
- Assemble and test methodologies
Activity 2 (Phase 2):
Implement of the methodology to assess vulnerability on the development topics, biodiversity and carbon.
- Select case study areas
- Assess goods and services from forests in relation to climate change and climate variability
- Develop climate scenarios
- Apply the methodology: assessment of vulnerability for the study areas
- Assess costs
- Elaborate vulnerability maps and extrapolate results
Activity 3 (Phases 1 and 2):
Development of criteria and indicators for adaptive management.
- Develop criteria and indicators
- Test criteria and indicators
Activity 4 (Phases 2 and 3):
Development of Policy oriented strategies for tropical forest ecosystems.
- Identify priorities on the basis of the vulnerability assessment
- Undertake a literature review on adaptation strategies and definition of possible response measures
- Develop and compile of adaptation actions in the context of the project
- Undertake a policy and institutional needs analysis
- Incorporate results into national communications and national adaptation programmes of action under the UNFCCC.
- Develop innovative financial mechanisms for adaptation
Activity 5 (all Phases):
Science-policy dialogue in and across regions
- Identify national and regional actors
- Establish working relation and define national partners
- Implement regional and national workshops
- Engage regional stakeholders in developing a regional agenda for adaptation on forest ecosystems, including the diffusion of practical information on adaptive forest management to reduce vulnerability
