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Revisiting Community Based Adaptation

Community-based adaptation emerged as a unique theory and approach to address adaptation deficit in developing countries. The evolution of community based adaptation clearly shows that it is advancing well and has potentials to provide strong basis for implementing adaptation priorities in developing countries. There are however issues and challenges around its scale of operation and gaps in wider institutionalization and scaling up within the mainstream development.

District Climate and Energy Plan (DCEP)-Mustang

The overall goal of the DCEP is to create an implementation plan that increases appropriate RET dissemination and construction in each district of Nepal and contributes to Nepal’s national and local climate change mitigation and adaptation plans. DCEPs will act as a systematic roadmap, which serves as a periodic rolling plan of the district in the sector of renewable energy development and climate change preparation.