Use-Cases

Who can use Strata, and what for?

Strata has been developed for analysts, practitioners and policymakers working in the fields of climate change adaptation, natural resource management, and peace and security in conflict-affected regions. Its objective is to streamline climate security data and insights in their daily work.

The two use-cases below illustrate applications of the platform’s outputs in different sectors.

  1. Conflict-sensitive climate and environmental programming
  2. Climate-sensitive conflict prevention and peacebuilding initiatives

Conflict-sensitive climate and environmental programming

Who

Practitioners who focus on climate change adaptation and mitigation, natural resource management, and nature restoration and conservation.

When and why

A thorough understanding of conflict dynamics should guide the design and delivery of environmental restoration and conservation, natural resource management, and climate change adaptation and mitigation interventions, especially in conflict-affected and fragile regions. A conflict-sensitive approach can avoid that programmes unintentionally exacerbate pre-existing grievances and underlying conflict drivers, and instead contribute to building inclusive, peaceful societies.

What Strata's outputs can strengthen

Analyses underpinning Nationally Determined Contributions and other climate-related strategies and environmental policies; context/situation/baseline analyses, progress reporting and evaluations of climate and environmental programmes (including those of the Global Environment Facility and Green Climate Fund), and others.

How

  1. Open Strata and navigate the combined environmental, peace and security hotspot map to the region of interest.
  2. Check whether the project implementation area coincides or is close to the mapped hotspots and identify what environmental, climate, and security issues are converging there.
  3. Map the climate and environmental hotspots, the peace and security hotspots, and the socio-economic vulnerability of the project’s implementation area separately by (de)selecting the relevant indicators (optional).
  4. Navigate to the dashboard (top right) to investigate values of separate indicators and their contribution to the hotspots on a region or district basis (optional).
  5. Check the exposure of often more vulnerable population groups such as youth, elderly, women, and displaced people (optional).
  6. Use the Strata manual to answer a set of key questions based on Strata’s data-driven evidence, complemented by local consultations, to ensure conflict-sensitivity in the project’s design and implementation.
Promoting Peace Over Natural Resources Project, construction and rehabilitation of water infrastructure in West Kordofan.

UNEP 2018

Climate-sensitive conflict prevention and peacebuilding initiatives

UNEP 2019

Who

Political analysts and peace and security practitioners.

When and why

A thorough understanding of local climate change impacts and environmental conditions should guide the design and delivery of conflict prevention and peacebuilding initiatives, such as dialogue and mediation, stabilisation, demobilisation, reintegration, and post-conflict recovery, especially in communities whose livelihoods are dependent on natural resources. A climate-sensitive approach helps to ensure that environmental stresses and shocks that can disrupt local livelihoods and economies, and exacerbate existing grievances, are appropriately taken into account in the design and implementation of peacebuilding interventions. This will also help ensure that peace and security operations contribute to preserving and restoring the health of ecosystems that are key to long-term sustainable peace.

What Strata's outputs can strengthen

Common Country Analyses (CCAs), analysis and monitoring of UN Peace Operations (e.g. reporting to the Security Council), conflict/political/situation/baseline analyses, progress reporting and evaluations of conflict prevention and peacebuilding programmes (e.g. UN Peacebuilding Fund), and others.

How

  1. Open Strata and navigate the combined environmental, peace and security hotspot map to the region of interest.
  2. Click on “LOAD” to select this use-case on “Delivering climate-sensitive conflict prevention and peacebuilding initiatives” and run the calculations by clicking on the top left button.
  3. Check whether the project implementation area coincides or is close to the mapped hotspots and identify what environmental, climate, and security issues are converging there.
  4. Map the climate and environmental hotspots of the project’s implementation area separately by (de)selecting the relevant indicators. It is useful to differentiate between climate change impacts and other environmental issues (optional).
  5. Navigate to the dashboard (top right) to investigate values of separate indicators and their contribution to the hotspots on a region or district basis (optional).
  6. Check the exposure of often more vulnerable population groups such as youth, elderly, women, and displaced people (optional).
  7. Use the Strata manual to answer a set of key questions based on Strata’s data-driven evidence, complemented by local consultations, to ensure climate and environmental sensitivity in the project’s design and implementation.