Overview
This assignment is the second portion of the team-based assignment started in assignment 3 Part 1. It is an opportunity for your team to develop a full proposal for a resilience planning process that includes an assessment and a high-level strategy. Assignment 3 Part 2 builds on the outline that you produced in 3 Part 1, and provides an opportunity to expand on the concepts that your team has explored and discussed throughout the course.
Assignment 3 requires that you deliver an ‘off the shelf’ methodology that a hypothetical client with no experience in climate resilience planning could use to lead a process in the sector or setting of your choice. In other words, you want to provide everything they would need to effectively convene a process that assesses resilience and creates a strategy containing high-level priorities and actions that would improve resilience. It is suggested that the planning methodology document contain at least the following:
– A thorough description of the sector or setting, including demographic and economic trends if applicable.
– A list of relevant climate hazards and instructions for how the hypothetical user could find and understand historical and future climate data.
– A climate resilience assessment methodology. This could include elements of a traditional vulnerability/risk assessment, a set of indicators that assess resilience at baseline and regular intervals to track the effectiveness, a set of qualitative criteria, or some other approach that you find compelling and effective.
– An engagement plan that includes a list of stakeholders and a rationale for their inclusion, agendas, activities and worksheets for any engagement sessions that will take place, etc.
– Guidance for translating the results of the resilience assessment into the actions and priorities that would appear in the strategy. This should include an action prioritization framework that considers, among other things, equity.
– A proposed structure for the resilience strategy (e.g., vision > objectives > goals > actions), at least six possible resilience strategies that could be useful in the setting/sector, and implementation guidance using promising practices identified in the literature.
– Monitoring, reporting, and evaluation guidance that corresponds to the effectiveness of the strategy in achieving its objectives and/or changes in the resilience of the sector/setting.
Instructions
Below are some general instructions for your full proposal:
- Some of the essential components for your full proposal are above in the overview, and others will have been researched and discussed during the course. You are encouraged to be creative in the development of your full proposal, while also acknowledging that a conventional approach can be useful.
- Your team will suggest 3-5 examples of actions that could be suitable for your sector/setting, and will provide guidance for action generation and prioritization.
- Your team is encouraged to maximize its use of Microsoft Word to produce a report that is concise, engaging, and effective. This could include the use of images, figures, tables, bulleted lists, headings and subheadings, and modern approaches to layout.
- Your team is encouraged to use endnotes, footnotes, an Appendix, or some other stylistic approach to provide a rationale for each of the element of your assessment and strategy. In other words, you provide guidance to the hypothetical reader, and separately/discretely provide Craig with a rationale for your inclusion and design of each element. Citations are welcomed and encouraged in the guidance and in the rationale, and you are free to use whatever citation style suits your project.
Requirements
Your full proposal should be between 15-20 pages long, depending on your use of images, and assuming single spacing, not including references.
Use the currently accepted APA style for your write-up.
Associated Learning Outcomes
- Use evidence-informed climate adaptation strategies to develop or select feasible solutions, recommendations, and action plans (Learning Outcome 1.2)
- Examine the role of reconciliation as a component of climate adaptation and low carbon resilience (Learning Outcome 1.3)
- Facilitate multi- and trans-disciplinary discussions and collaboration (Learning Outcome 4.3)
- Demonstrate competence in translating and mobilizing climate adaptation knowledge for use by multiple stakeholder groups (Learning Outcome 5.2)
- Apply lateral, creative, and future thinking to the field of climate adaptation (Learning Outcome 6.3)
Assessment Criteria
In addition to the learning outcomes, assessment criteria will be based on the Academic Paper/report Assessment Rubric found found on the MACAL program website under Program Resources, Assessment.
Weight: 30%
Submit: Directly to Moodle.