Risk and Opportunity Analysis (ROA)
The first barrier to overcome when designing an adaptation strategy is the lack of analysis toolkits to identify
adequate adaptation strategies. Consequently, the AdapCC pilot initiative provided the basis to adopt and further
enhance existing analysis toolkits to identify adaptation measures at the farmer's level. The main objective of the
process of Risk and Opportunity Analysis is the participatory identification of adaptation measures and strategies
at the small-scale farmer level to cope with climate change. The ROA process is an analysis, carried out in 7
steps, which allows us to identify climate risks for small-scale production systems in a specific region and to
understand the root causes of being affected by climate variability or extreme weather events.
The final product of the analysis is supposed to be a site-specific strategy to adapt to climate change, which could
be implemented by the affected producers themselves. This adaptation strategy contains concrete measures to reduce the
climate risks and the vulnerabilities on the producers' farm.
Expected output of the ROA process:
- Detailed information about the impacts of climate change on small-scale coffee and tea production in the
focus regions (risks, damages, vulnerabilities of smallholders)
- Identified countermeasures to reduce the climate risks for the producers (adaptation measures)
- Adaptation strategies for the pilot groups including technical project designs and operational plans to
implement concrete measures
- Options to generate additional financing or funding for implementing the adaptation strategies
- Regional network of institutions and farmers to exchange and transmit the experiences and the results of
the pilot projects
To carry out the ROA process it is necessary to facilitate participatory instruments, motivating the affected
population to make decisions in the consolidation of the processes. On the one hand the process itself is an analysis
and on the other hand it contains sessions of capacity building for all involved actors as well as sensitization
lessons. Hence, the members of the small-scale producer organization are contributing to the analysis, making decisions
and becoming sensitized for the climate risks and the need to adapt. Especially the technical promoters of the
organization learn to apply the analysis and to carry out the 7 steps. Accordingly, the ROA process is a process of
various analyses as much as a process to develop capacities among small-scale farmers and their institutions to cope
with climate change.
A training handbook in Spanish to apply the complete ROA process is now available.
PDF-Document (spanish, 3.0 MB)
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