OC1B Identify resources available for adaptation

Adaptation is a long-term process that will see you undertake many tasks requiring a range of different resources – human, physical, financial, information and intellectual. It is useful to survey resources that already exist within your organisation that will enable you to plan and deliver future work.

Sub tasks:

Identify existing relevant resources within your organisation that may be available to support adaptation work. Reflect on and record levels of the following resources:
- Human resources - Identify job roles, teams, committees or individuals that may already be developing policies, plans, or actions aligned with adaptation or who have knowledge of climate change issues and duties.
- Physical and material resources - Understand the different types of assets and what their roles in adaptation might be. Identify any assets that your organisation owns or manages that support resilience and adaptation (for example flood prevention infrastructure or estates and greenspaces that provide ecosystem services).
- Financial resources -Examine what funding is currently allocated to support work aligned with adaptation and what funding opportunities exist.
- Intellectual resources – Catalog the skills that your organisation has access to that could help with adaptation work (for example risk managers, engineers, GIS and data analysts, community engagement, resilience practitioners, communication or environment specialists and those with facilitation skills).
- Information resources - Determine what adaptation information (including records of climate impacts) your organisation currently promotes internally and/or externally and identify who holds theses resources.
- Monitoring resources – Understand what resources (staff, processes, metrics/indicators) the organisation has for monitoring, evaluating and reporting.

Resources:

Starter Pack - Template 5 Available Resources for Adaptation

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