Fourteenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Abstract

Like other developing countries, Nepal developed National Adaptation Plan of Action (NAPA) to tackle the impacts of climate change. Local Adaptation Plan of Action (LAPA) is designed during NAPA formulation to come up with locally suitable strategies. This study uses Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI) to assess the effectiveness of LAPA by comparing the LVI value in LAPA implemented and non-implemented community as well as between Brahmin and Dalit group. We conducted face-to-face survey with 80 households and 11 in-depth interviews to understand the people’s knowledge and experience on LAPA planning and implementation process. LVI was calculated for nine major components which were identified based on literature review, namely, Livelihood strategies, socio-demographic profile, social network, food, water, health, infrastructure, natural disasters, and climate variability. Despite the intervention of adaptation activities, the overall LVI value shows that LAPA implemented community is slightly vulnerable than LAPA non-implemented community.