The advantage of empowering the county and ward committees with tools for
collecting baseline and monitoring information increases the chances of a better
quality evaluation of community resilience. This is different from normal evaluations in which the target communities are not involved in defining their
indicators according to their own perceptions. This acknowledgement of the
usefulness of subjective measurements of resilience is relatively recent and has
been proposed as complementary to the traditional evaluation methods by Jones
and Tanner (2015)
25 for planning and decision making. Through subjective
resilience measurement, there is a greater understanding of household factors
that contribute to resilience and policy makers/decision makers can design and
plan for programs that enhance these factors in the long term and avoid introducing or planning for programs that have the potential to be maladaptive to
communities.
• Replication and scale-up of subjective resilience measurement methods: Replication of participatory methodologies of measuring resilience such as TAMD
can be beneficial for climate risk management planning by sub-national governments and adaptation planning for targeted communities. However up scaling to
national level may prove challenging (Jones and Tanner 2012) especially
because of initial investment. A cost and values study conducted in Kenya on
TAMD concluded that the ‘returns of using TAMD as a resilience M&E system
are likely to be considerable, despite uncertainty. This is based only on individual indicators of avoided losses, expenditures and investment requirements. In
reality, TAMD will have a system-wide impact, causing many costs to fall
simultaneously and generating greater investment returns (Barrett 2014).
26 In
addition Barrett states that his analysis did not factor in future escalation of
climate change effects. This suggests that the likelihood of even higher Net
Present Values of TAMD in the future.
Open Access This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/),
which permits any noncommercial use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in
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25 See note 1.
26 Barrett, S. (2014). Cost and Values Analysis of TAMD in Kenya. IIED Working Paper. IIED,
London. Retrieved from http://pubs.iied.org/10106IIED
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collecting baseline and monitoring information increases the chances of a better
quality evaluation of community resilience. This is different from normal evaluations in which the target communities are not involved in defining their
indicators according to their own perceptions. This acknowledgement of the
usefulness of subjective measurements of resilience is relatively recent and has
been proposed as complementary to the traditional evaluation methods by Jones
and Tanner (2015)
25 for planning and decision making. Through subjective
resilience measurement, there is a greater understanding of household factors
that contribute to resilience and policy makers/decision makers can design and
plan for programs that enhance these factors in the long term and avoid introducing or planning for programs that have the potential to be maladaptive to
communities.
• Replication and scale-up of subjective resilience measurement methods: Replication of participatory methodologies of measuring resilience such as TAMD
can be beneficial for climate risk management planning by sub-national governments and adaptation planning for targeted communities. However up scaling to
national level may prove challenging (Jones and Tanner 2012) especially
because of initial investment. A cost and values study conducted in Kenya on
TAMD concluded that the ‘returns of using TAMD as a resilience M&E system
are likely to be considerable, despite uncertainty. This is based only on individual indicators of avoided losses, expenditures and investment requirements. In
reality, TAMD will have a system-wide impact, causing many costs to fall
simultaneously and generating greater investment returns (Barrett 2014).
26 In
addition Barrett states that his analysis did not factor in future escalation of
climate change effects. This suggests that the likelihood of even higher Net
Present Values of TAMD in the future.
Open Access This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/),
which permits any noncommercial use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in
any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the
source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.
The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the work’s Creative
Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if such material is not included in
the work’s Creative Commons license and the respective action is not permitted by statutory
regulation, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to duplicate, adapt or
reproduce the material.
25 See note 1.
26 Barrett, S. (2014). Cost and Values Analysis of TAMD in Kenya. IIED Working Paper. IIED,
London. Retrieved from http://pubs.iied.org/10106IIED
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