
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
Scenario Game of Futures (See Job Aid: Worksheet for the Climate Scenarios Games of Futures)
Leveraging organizational goals towards a regional vision
Convening Municipal Stakeholders to Jointly Track Adaptation Actions
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.
Getting the Right People in the Room
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
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)