Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis (CVCA) Handbook

AcknowledgementsPrepared by Angie Dazé, Kaia Ambrose and Charles Ehrhart©Copyright CARE1 st EditionMay 2009Cover photo by Valenda Campbell/CARECARE grants permission to all not-for-profit organizations to reproduce this work, in whole or in part. Thefollowing notice shall appear conspicuously with any reproduction: “Climate Vulnerability and Capacity AnalysisHandbook” © 2009 by CARE International. Used by permission.The Handbook can be downloaded from CARE’s climate change website at http://www.careclimatechange.org. TheCVCA Handbook is a living document. Please send feedback and suggestions to cvca@careclimatechange.org. We wouldbe particularly pleased to hear about your experiences using the Handbook and suggestions for its improvement.The authors would like to thank the following CARE colleagues for providing helpful feedback and suggestionsto make this Handbook more relevant to development actors: Cynthia Awuor, Shafiqul Islam, Amilcar Lucas,Marcos Athias-Neto, Richard Paterson, Morten Fauerby Thomsen, and Nguyen Thi Yen. We are grateful to SamBoardley (CHF – Partners in Rural Development), Gina Castillo (Oxfam America), Anne Hammill (InternationalInstitute for Sustainable Development), Mark Janz (World Vision International), Mary Morris (World VisionInternational), Kimberly Rafuse (Canadian Red Cross), and Tom Tanner (Institute of Development Studies) foruseful suggestions.During the field tests, invaluable contributions were made by CARE staff, partner organizations, and communitymembers in Ghana, Niger, and Nepal. These contributors are too numerous to mention by name, but we arehopeful that this final product reflects their views and meets their expectations.ii Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis Handbook