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This document describes the participatory methodology used for the regional baseline assessment conducted in five landscapes of the Congo Basin. It was developed in the framework of Climate Change and Forests in the Congo Basin: Synergies between Adaptation and Mitigation (COBAM) project, initiated and implemented by CIFOR under the African Development Bank grant to the Economic Community of Central African States for financing the Congo Basin Ecosystems Conservation Support Program.

The main objective of this assessment was to analyze the current vulnerability of local communities to climate variability in the context of development processes. This assessment forms the basis for further research on future scenarios of vulnerability and the evaluation of possible adaptation strategies that can provide co-benefits with mitigation efforts in the Congo Basin. The methodology for the regional assessment was developed in collaboration with many partners.

Researchers from CIFOR and SEI worked closely with local partners in each site to refine and apply the different methods of the assessment. We would like to thank all local partners: ROSE, INDEFOR, ARECO, AMFN and UEFA. We are also very grateful to all the local communities in the research sites that took part in this research for their time and interest in the research; they really deserve to be coauthors, because we are sharing their knowledge in this report…

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