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Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of Climate Resilience of Farmers and Pastoralists (SHARP)

A new guidance document for practitioners

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 200 p.

Author Hernández Lagana, M., Phillips, S., Poisot, A.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-135223-6

Synopsis (short abstract) This new guidance document provides updated guidelines and tools for development practitioners and researchers on the features and use of SHARP+, describing the tool as it is today. This document does not replace the previous “Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of climate Resilience of farmers and Pastoralists” methodological document published in 2015 which encompasses all the theoretical grounds of the tool. This guidance document also presents the latest version of the questionnaire, SHARP+ 2020, scoring system and tablet application based on the two technical reviews mentioned above. This document walks the reader through a step-by-step process to set up the SHARP+ assessment, adapt it to the local context, and use it to collect and analyse information about household resilience in the context of climate change. The new material presented is for use by practitioners in the future implementation of SHARP+ in the field.

Last updated 02/06/2022

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Hernández Lagana, M., Phillips, S. and Poisot, A. 2022. Self-evaluation and holistic assessment of climate resilience of farmers and pastoralists (sharp+) – A new guidance document for practitioners. Rome, FAO. 


https://doi.org/10.4060/cb7399en

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