Assessing adaptation options for climate change: A guide for coastal communities in the Coral Triangle of the Pacific 1. Assessment process

Assessing options for adapting to climate change is an important part of building resilient fishing and farming communities. This brochure is part of a series that collectively detail how a community-based assessment of climate change was used in partnership with coastal communities and provincial and national-level stakeholders in Timor-Leste and Solomon Islands. The assessment contains four distinct, but related, steps (Fig 1) focused on supporting community-level decision-making for adaptation through a series of participatory action research activities. Each brochure in this series details a specific activity in the four-step assessment. This series of eight brochures is primarily aimed for use where resources are limited or where it is more appropriate to use a rapid, qualitative and non-data intensive method of assessment. Community leaders, local NGOs and regional and national-level government representatives in developing countries may find this series useful. In this brochure we provide an introduction to and details of how we conducted a community-based adaptation assessment of climate change in partnership with community members, local NGOs and goverment representatives in Timor-Leste and the Solomon Islands. This series of brochures is intended for use more broadly across the Coral Triangle and Pacific region.