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Resilience Metrics Facilitation Tools and Job Aids

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Successful climate adaptation planning calls on communities to define success and identify metrics to track progress toward a climate resilient future. Building on their experiences hosting workshops as part of the Successful Adaptation Indicators and Metrics effort, a 2018 catalyst project team has developed a planning and facilitation toolkit, Resilience Metrics. The toolkit includes a series of case studies as well as a suite of tools to advance conversations around successful adaptation.

About these resources

These facilitation tools and job aids are part of the Resilience Metrics toolkit, which helps communities define and track their climate adaptation progress. These tools and activities are intended to support each of the six steps in the process of developing and using resilience metrics. See how facilitation tools and job aids align with these steps.

Facilitation Tools

These resources outline activites that facilitators and adaptation professionals can use to lead stakeholders through the process of defining and tracking climate adaptation goals. Click to see a full list with links to facilitation tools.

Group Visioning for Adaptation Success - What does the future we want look like?

Break-out Group Discussion Linking Adaptation Actions to Outcomes

Facilitated Panel Discussion on Monitoring of Indicators and Metrics

Roving Flip Charts to Brainstorm Indicators and Effective Tracking Systems

Art and Science Collaborative to Visualize Possible Futures

Leveraging Existing Indicators and Metrics Frameworks for Adaptation

Reciprocity Circle

Scenario Game of Futures (See Job Aid: Worksheet for the Climate Scenarios Games of Futures)

Leveraging organizational goals towards a regional vision

Tracking Adaptation Actions

Convening Municipal Stakeholders to Jointly Track Adaptation Actions

World Café to Explore Key Dimensions of Adaptation Success

Job Aids

These resources, such as worksheets, activities, exercises, and examples, can be used to help identify and track metrics within a climate adaptation planning process. Click to see a full list with links to job aids.

Where to Start?

Getting the Right People in the Room

How to Build Trust

How to Conduct a "Visioning" Exercise

Dealing with Trade-Offs in Adaptation

Decision Criteria Structured Decision-Making

What Makes A “Good ” Indicator?

Sample Indicators and Metrics of Adaptation Success and Progress: Economic Aspects

Sample Indicators and Metrics of Adaptation Success and Progress: Environmental Aspects

Sample Indicators and Metrics of Adaptation Success and Progress: Governance Aspects

Sample Indicators and Metrics of Adaptation Success and Progress: Infrastructure Aspects

Sample Indicators and Metrics of Adaptation Success and Progress: Social Aspects

Assessing and Tracking “Good ” Adaptation Outcomes Over Time

Good Adaptation Actions

Indicator Occurrence, Types of Metrics, Frequency of Monitoring

Common Principles of Good Governance

Guiding Questions to Assess the Quality of Adaptation Decision-Making

World Café Worksheet: Exploring Key Dimensions of Adaptation Success

Choosing and Prioritizing Indicators and Metrics to Track

Strategies to Minimize Monitoring Costs and Ensure that Monitoring and Evaluation Gets Done

Worksheet for the Climate Scenarios Games of Futures (See Facilitation Tool: Scenario Game of Futures)