Final Technical Report - weADAPT

institutions with vitality and high capacity. Community institutions can also play a role in
coordinating collective actions that require pooled resources to implement. Sadly,
community level institutions in the surveyed communities are in decline and some
community-level measures are becoming obsolete. A reversal of this trend will be
important for maintaining existing capacity and raising capacity to the levels that will be
needed to address the challenges of climate change.
While not addressed directly in the study, coordinated regional action by the
countries of the lower Mekong River basin should also be considered. The countries
share a common resource, the Mekong River. Climate change will alter water availability,
water quality, flood risks, and the performance and sustainability of river dependent
livelihood systems throughout the basin. The actions taken within any of the countries to
adapt to these changes are also likely to have trans-boundary effects.
In this context, the countries of the lower Mekong River region should explore the
potential for trans-boundary effects of their actions, options for reducing negative transboundary
effects, and options for collective actions that may yield positive transboundary
effects.
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