The overriding research objective is to critically examine the scope and practical ways in which
humanitarian responses may contribute to adaptation to climate change. Specifically, the project
seeks to:

1.  Enhance understanding of the long term implications of humanitarian interventions for efforts to
build long term resilience and sustainable adaptation to climate change  

2.  Identify lessons from current interventions and policy approaches, in particular regarding
discrete humanitarian policy  approaches that empower the voices of the vulnerable in
decision making and address long term vulnerability

3.  Develop guidelines for how humanitarian interventions can better contribute to climate
change adaptation in terms of use of information about complex climate and vulnerability
contexts in operational decisions

4.  Build capacity among Norwegian research and humanitarian actors to collaboratively
engage in action-oriented knowledge production regarding climate change adaptation