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How We Adapt

Adapting is a process of sensing, learning and responding to the systems and environments in which we work. To adapt, we need to work with change and uncertainty to facilitate the development outcomes we want and need.

What We Do

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HOW WE TRANSITION

Sustainable energy can meet the demands of development and growth today, without endangering our development tomorrow. We undertake research on the political economy of energy transitions and sustainable development at national and local levels, including through advancing cross-cutting climate and energy policy analysis and development. Our work explores how the deployment of renewable technologies and advancing energy efficiency can support a greener economy, local empowerment and resilience, gender equality, social justice, and other sustainable development objectives.

HOW WE THINK ABOUT CHANGING SYTEMS

How We Adapt is embedded in international networks of complexity, systems, and resilience thinkers and doers.  We facilitate bespoke learning, planning, and engagement processes, drawing on a range of frameworks and methodologies, including systems and stakeholder mapping, theory of change, political economy analysis, and social design thinking.

HOW WE THINK ABOUT RISK

At How We Adapt, we understand risk as a function of uncertainty. Given the complexity of contemporary development thinking and practice, we are working to develop a new applied approach to risk, as a strategic frame for our work. 

HOW WE SUPPORT GREEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

A green economy is an inclusive, sustainable economy that supports the health and well-being of social and ecological systems. We engage in research, policy development, strategy, and program design to support the development of local economies that provide business and livelihood opportunities through natural resource efficiency, conservation, and restoration. The transition to a green economy holds the potential to simultaneously address environmental challenges and social issues of access, equity, and justice through bottom-up and top-down transformational strategies.

HOW WE FOSTER RESILIENCE & DECENTRALISED DEVELOPMENT

Resilience is the capacity to continuously adapt to and develop in a dynamic context. It is the ability to respond to destructive natural or social disasters, ​ more fundamental, longer-term shifts like a warming climate, with flexibility and growth. We advocate for and develop locally embedded resilience strategies. While top-down policies and investments remain critical in responding to macro challenges, we believe that decentralized and distributed, people-driven, bottom-up actions are critical to building the capacity for resilient development at all levels.

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The strength of How We Adapt is in our network, which spans public, private, and academic sectors, across business, civil society, and government. Please complete the form below or email us if you would like to connect with us.

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