TroFCCA - Forests and Climate Change Adaptation in the Philippines

TroFCCA is a four - year project of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and th e Tropical Agriculture Center for Research and Higher Education (CATIE). The main objective is to contribute to national processes of adaptation to climate change, in particular, and create efforts to mainstream adaptation into development policies. The specific objectives of the project are as follows: • Identify regional development issues related to climate change impacts over forest that can increase the vulnerability of the society; • Develop specific methodologies to assess vulnerability; • Contribute to current national and regional adaptation processes; • Develop criteria and indicators for adaptive forest management; • Develop policy - oriented adaptation strategies; and • Facilitate a science - policy dialogue on adaptation. The project operates in three reg ions: Central America, Southeast Asia and West Africa. All regions share the same project‘s general framework but each will develop their own methods on the basis of their respective regional contexts and prioritized needs. In the Philippines, water resou rces and landslides are the chosen priority topics. TroFCCA in the Philippines is the continuation of the project entitled: An Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts, Adaptations, and Vulnerability in Watershed Areas and Communities in Southeast Asia (AIACC) that ended in 2006. For TroFCCA‘s third year in the Philippines, the main activities consist of the development of methodology for the vulnerability assessment of the water resources, policy and literature studies, development of national pol icy, and dissemination of information materials. The assessment of vulnerability methods is developed mainly through literature studies and participation in international, regional, and national workshops and seminars

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