OC2A Secure resources to plan and deliver adaptation

Your organisation will need committed resources - human, physical, financial, information and intellectual – to progress with adaptation. You need to secure those needed for short-term activities – but also look ahead at likely future needs. Consider both internal and external sources.

Sub tasks:

Increase understanding of internal budget and investment cycles
- Identify lead in times and business cases requirements for annual and multi annual budget allocations.
Clearly define the short term adaptation activities that require resourcing.
- Estimate the resources (for example staff time, funding, access to technical expertise) required to deliver the activity.
- Use previous work to ‘identify resources available for adaptation (Task OC1B) to identify whether there are existing resources that could be allocated to deliver some or all of the activity.
- Where there is a resource gap (i.e. there are not enough existing resources available to deliver the activity) identify a budget holder/ funder who may be able to resource the activity and find out about the procedure for submitting a budget request.
- Identify any areas where information on resource availability is not available and you can revisit this during later engagement.
- Continue to review and update internal resources list (developed in Task OC1B)
Build a business case to resource the activity. At this stage of adaptation work organisations are typically seeking to resource the development of initial climate adaptation impact assessments and action plans. The business case for these types of activities is usually built around a clear strategic case linked to legislative requirements (Task PI1A) and links to organisational priorities (Task OC1A).
- Join the Adaptation Scotland Knowledge hub to connect with peers who are developing business cases for similar work.
- Identify opportunities to share resources, benefit from in-kind support and reduce duplication of effort
Find out if partner organisations are planning to carry out similar adaptation activities and explore opportunities to share resources such as data, technical expertise or staff time.

Resources:

The Green Book: appraisal and evaluation in central government

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