Working with marginal populations : an annex to the USAID climate-resilient development framework

First, it serves to help development practitioners understand the importance of identifying and addressing the situations that influence marginal populations. Second, the annex helps development practitioners understand how to identify and incorporate the perspectives, needs, and capacities of marginal populations into each phase of the Climate-Resilient Development Framework. This annex is structured as follows: Section 1 introduces readers to the annex and explains its purpose and relationship to other USAID documents; Section 2 introduces the concept of marginal populations and how marginality can lead to distinct exposure and/or differentiated sensitivity and adaptive capacity to climate change that can undermine development goals; Section 3 focuses explicitly on the climate-resilient development framework and how the needs of and concerns for marginal populations can be integrated into each stage of the framework; and Section 4 suggests resources for further reading; many of these resources have been cited throughout this annex, but additional resources are included that may be of interest to development practitioners. Appendix A provides example questions to help development practitioners ensure that they consider marginal populations as they proceed through the climate-resilient development framework. (CCRD project abstract, modified)