African Adaptation Programme

AFRICA ADAPTATION PROGRAMMEBrief overview of

‘climate action intelligence’

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2012

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Background: CAI IN AAP

• A strategic initiative designed by the AAP regional office

• Pilot in Kenya (2010)• Wave 1 countries: Ethiopia, Malawi, Congo,

Senegal• Wave 2 countries: Lesotho, more TBC

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What is climate action intelligence?

• ‘who is doing what, where and when’ in climate change in Lesotho

• A process based on action intelligence & action research• Bringing in the latest new computer science and open source

tools• visualize patterns of interaction, collaboration, information

and knowledge dissemination that take all spheres of society into account => decision making

• A capacity development process to better analyse a given complex environment

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The CAI process

Classification and Tagging Making Sense

AAAPT ontology

Socio-cultural tagging

Documents

Datasets

InternetForms & Surveys

Visual Analytics

Data Collection

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Elements of a Social System

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ANALYTIC TOOLKITTEXT/CONTENT ANALYSIS

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ANALYTIC TOOLKITSPATIAL ANALYSIS

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ANALYTIC TOOLKITTIME/TREND ANALYSIS

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ANALYTIC TOOLKIT

SOCIAL `NETWORK ANALYSIS``

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TYPICAL CAI TEAM

• Senior UNDP officers (EEU/policy unit/ unit)

• AAP coordinator/officer

• Key ministries researchers (depending on capacity and dedicated resources)

• students from ag. Faculty• students form faculty of

humanities

University analytical

rep.

Gov. analytical

rep.

UNDP analytical

rep.

AAP analytical

rep.

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Operational structure

Technical Committee

• Determine research focus

• Review and strengthen analysis

CAI Team

• Generate Data and Analysis

UNDPNUL AAP Gov’t Gov’t Gov’t

Decision Makers

Visualizations

Analysis and visualizations

Data