Mainstreaming adaptation in India – the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and climate change

Adam, Hans Nicolai

doi:10.1080/17565529.2014.934772

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“…O'Brien noted the various interpretations of transformation, with some regarding transformation as potentially dangerous, whereas others have considered it an opportunity for innovation. Although several articles noted the potential for alternate development pathways to increase poverty, inequality and/or vulnerability (e.g., Ref ), many SA articles in this review generally had a positive view of transformation and considered it a necessary step to address adaptation needs, arguing that change within existing development paradigms has been unlikely to result in adaptation that is sustainable. Accordingly, without transformation, the SA approach argues that adaptation responses would be limited to incremental adjustments that work within the existing system and fail to adequately respond to climatic and nonclimatic stressors.…”

Section: Approaches To Planned Adaptation In Developing Countriesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…All articles identified in this review encouraged the integration of adaptation and development, with several arguing that donor stipulations have forced adaptation to be separated from development, despite the difficulty of distinguishing between adaptation and development in practice (e.g., Refs , , and ). Progress in fully merging adaptation and development was reportedly limited since the experience of practitioners has not been reaching policy‐makers, donors, and/or researchers . However, articles also noted that the complete integration of adaptation and development could lead to maladaptation depending on the consideration of long‐term climate consequences (e.g., Ref ), the extent or nature of climate change mitigation actions (e.g., Ref ), and the sustainability of the development paradigm with which adaptation has been integrated (e.g., Ref ).…”

Section: Differentiating Between Adaptation and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although the TRM approach suggested that current adaptation initiatives could be modified to address adaptation needs, PPVR and SA approaches emphasized the need to move away from this conventional interventions‐based approach to adaptation. Instead, several PPVR and SA articles advocated for a holistic, broader, systems‐based approach to adaptation that allows for greater flexibility and learning . Specifically, Reed et al, a PPVR article, suggested that international development and adaptation projects should move away from a traditional management approach, arguing that climate change requires ‘clumsy solutions,’ which imply experimental piecemeal approaches that recognize the multiple and diverse viewpoints surrounding an issue (Ref , p. 2, see Refs , , and for a detailed discussion of clumsy solutions).…”

Section: Practical Implications: Adaptation Strategies and Funding Mementioning

confidence: 99%

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Drawing the line between adaptation and development: a systematic literature review of planned adaptation in developing countries

Sherman¹,

Berrang‐Ford²,

Lwasa

et al. 2016

WIREs Climate Change

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Climate change adaptation is increasingly considered an urgent priority for policy action. Billions of dollars have been pledged for adaptation finance, with many donor agencies requiring that adaptation is distinct from baseline development. However, practitioners and academics continue to question what adaptation looks like on the ground, especially in a developing country. This study examines the current framing of planned adaptation amidst low socioeconomic development and considers the practical implications of this framing for adaptation planning. Three overarching approaches to planned adaptation in a developing country context emerged in a systematic review of 30 peer-reviewed articles published between 2010 and 2015, including: (1) technocratic risk management, which treats adaptation as additional to development, (2) pro-poor vulnerability reduction, which acknowledges the ability of conventional development to foster and act as adaptation, and (3) sustainable adaptation, which suggests that adaptation should only be integrated into a type of development that is socially and environmentally sustainable. Over half of 'sustainable adaptation' articles in this review took a critical adaptation approach, drawing primarily from political ecology and postdevelopment studies, and emphasizing the malleability of adaptation. The reviewed articles highlight how the different framings of the relationship between adaptation and development result in diverse and sometimes contradictory messages regarding adaptation design, implementation, funding, monitoring, and evaluation. This review illustrates the need to continually interrogate the multiple framings of adaptation and development and to foster a pragmatic and pluralistic dialogue regarding planned adaptation and transformative change in developing countries.

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Section: Approaches To Planned Adaptation In Developing Countriesmentioning

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Section: Differentiating Between Adaptation and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Drawing the line between adaptation and development: a systematic literature review of planned adaptation in developing countries

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Lwasa

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“…Irrigation, flood control and weather‐proof infrastructure. As Adam () has pointed out, these assets have the potential to increase communities’ resilience to climate‐related shocks.…”

Section: Mgnrega and Asset Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Irrigation, flood control and weather-proof infrastructure. As Adam (2015) has pointed out, these assets have the potential to increase communities' resilience to climate-related shocks. The MGNREGA has procedures to ensure that assets, such as water tanks or check dams, are built to a standard set of specifications; as we have outlined in 2.3, such procedures are essential if PWP assets are to be beneficial to communities in terms of increasing their climate resilience.…”

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Does Guaranteed employment promote resilience to climate change? The case of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)

Godfrey-Wood

Flower

2017

Development Policy Review

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India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is the largest labour guarantee scheme in the world, offering 100 days of paid labour to every rural household. This article reviews the growing evidence base, assessing the extent to which the scheme can be said to contribute to resilience to climate change, based on its effectiveness as a safety net and driver of household accumulation, its ability to create assets which build collective resilience, and its support for transformations of exploitative social relations. The article concludes that the MGNREGA has already made a major contribution to resilience, but requires improvements in governance and state capacity to maximize its contribution.

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Mainstreaming climate adaptation into social protection: The issues yet to be addressed

Kundo

Brueckner

Spencer

et al. 2021

J of Intl Development

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As the consequences of climate change become better understood, there is growing agreement among development practitioners and academics on the need for mainstreaming climate adaptation into social protection. This review paper assesses the progress in mainstreaming efforts, revealing that there has been considerable progress made to date. However, a number of critical issues relating to the challenges of such mainstreaming in the context of developing countries and the conceptual framework needed to assess the outcomes of such developmental programmes are yet to be addressed. These issues are examined in this paper.

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Mainstreaming adaptation in India – the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and climate change

Cited by 26 publications

References 20 publications

Drawing the line between adaptation and development: a systematic literature review of planned adaptation in developing countries

Drawing the line between adaptation and development: a systematic literature review of planned adaptation in developing countries

Does Guaranteed employment promote resilience to climate change? The case of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)

Mainstreaming climate adaptation into social protection: The issues yet to be addressed

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