DESIGNING PROJECTS IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work is funded by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility
(GEF), and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
We thank many people for their specific contributions:
• The Enabling Adaptation Pathways team at CSIRO Land and Water – some are authors of this report but
we also draw on the work of the rest of the team – including Seona Meharg, Michael Dunlop, Russell
Gorddard, Matt Colloff, Tim Capon, Rachel Williams, Alistair Hobday, Michael Doherty, Suzanne Prober,
Helen Murphy – who have spent many years developing, testing, integrating and applying these concepts
in different projects. The enthusiasm, challenging discussions and deep knowledge of the topic of the
whole team have infused this report in so many tangible and intangible ways.
• Our reviewers, including Jeff Herrick, Michael Stocking, Thomas Hammond, Sarah Lebel, Sara Minelli, Anna
Tengberg, Stephen Murphy, Ralph Sims, Brian Child, Eric Patrick, Lindsay Stringer, Mohammed Bakarr,
Fareeha Iqbal, Ulrich Apel, and Ian Gray. Thank you for the range of perspectives offered. Your critique,
advice and suggestions have greatly improved the report.
• Mohammed Bakarr and Gabriella Richardson Temm (GEF), Maria Schultz and Sara Elfstrand (SwedBio),
David Colozza (FAO), and Sandy Andelman and Alex Zvoleff (Conservation International) for specific text
contributions in pullout boxes.
• The many participants of the Food Security IAP inception meeting, and the participants of the UNDP informal
national dialogue on Resilience (Addis Ababa in September 2015), for providing robust discussion and
input as we were developing these guidelines. Thanks to the project development team for the Ethiopian
country project including Wubua Mekonnen (UNDP), Alan Nicol (IWMI), Fassil Kebebew (Consultant) and
the participants of the workshop in Addis Ababa March 2016. Together with some of the co-authors of
these guidelines, we started the process of using RAPTA to design the Ethiopia project. The process is
still in the early stages, but as the images show, the participants made a wonderful start in piloting this
approach.
• Thomas Hammond and Guadalupe Durón (STAP Secretariat) and Mohammed Bakarr (GEF Secretariat) for
the thought-provoking discussion and questions, and concrete suggestions offered on earlier drafts.
• The STAP Secretariat for their collaborative and supportive management of this project.
• Karin Hosking and Julian Cribb for editing.
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