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What role for multi-stakeholder partnerships in adaptation to climate change? Experiences from private sector adaptation in Kenya
- Source :
- Climate Risk Management, Vol 32, Iss, Pp 100319-(2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2021.
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Abstract
- Amidst increasing interest in multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) in climate discourse, this paper identifies four rationales for why MSPs may be particularly suited to supporting adaptation from existing literatures. With a focus on MSPs that seek to support adaptation among micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya, we then investigate the extent to which this potential is being realised in practice, through interviews with partners engaged in the design and implementation of MSPs. This allows us to examine some of the opportunities, challenges and distributional risks that may result from employing MSPs to support adaptation. We find that through action and investment from donors and the public sector in areas such as research, data access, relationship building, training and capacity building, access to finance and business incubation, MSPs can enable a wide range of private sector actors to deliver adaptation resources to SMEs. Beneficiaries include small-scale SMEs in agricultural value chains in remote regions, that could otherwise fall outside of market inclusion. As such, respondents in this research typically considered MSPs to present an exciting opportunity to plug gaps in adaptation and development finance. Further analysis, however, suggests that dependence on market mechanisms for delivering adaptation resources means that MSPs risk excluding the poorest groups, exposing businesses to new risks and reproducing existing inequalities. Additionally, MSPs often remain heavily dependent on donor-led organisations for both resources and momentum. In Kenya, opportunities to develop more integrated responses to supporting the adaptive capacity of SMEs are being missed through a disconnect between the practice of MSPs and national public sector development frameworks and institutions.
- Subjects :
- Atmospheric Science
Global and Planetary Change
Adaptive capacity
Micro, small and medium enterprise (SMEs)
business.industry
Geography, Planning and Development
Public sector
Capacity building
Climate change adaptation
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Private sector
Investment (macroeconomics)
Business enabling environments
Kenya
Private sector adaptation
HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Meteorology. Climatology
Access to finance
Multi-stakeholder partnerships / multi-sectoral partnerships
Business
Small and medium-sized enterprises
Marketing
QC851-999
Adaptation (computer science)
GE Environmental Sciences
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22120963
- Volume :
- 32
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Climate Risk Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6a73fedf2674dd01392f5df097ad134d