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policy.Theevaluationsought tohelp implementersunderstandhowtheprojectwas supportingcommunitiesadapt toclimatechange,andalsoposed thequestion:what does successful adaptation look like from the perspective of children, youth and their communities? 16.2 TheProject Across the Philippines, many communities are extremely vulnerable to climate changedue tohigh levelsofpovertycombinedwithhighexposure toawide range ofclimatechangeimpacts.ThePhilippineswasranked2ndonthe2014WorldRisk Index3and122ndoutof177countrieson theUnitedNationsHumanDevelopment Index.4 All areas of the Philippines are expected to see increased average daily temperatures and a spike in the number of very hot days. Rising sea levels and increasedstormsurgeswill impactcoastalzones,whilstchangestoseasonalrainfall patternsare likelytoaffect foodsecurity.Thewetseasonis likely tobecomewetter, while the dry season becomes drier. However, given the diversity across the Philippines, the effects of these changes will vary across the country and will ultimately be localised andhighly context-specific.5 The Child-Centred Community-Based Adaptation (CC-CBA) project, implemented from 2012 to 2015 and funded by the Australian Government, aimed to respond to these challenges by enhancing the resilience of children, youth, and their communities to the unavoidable impacts of climate change in 40 barangays across four vulnerable provinces (see Fig. 16.1): Aurora (led by Save the Children), Eastern Samar, Northern Samar and Southern Leyte (led by Plan). The four provinces were targeted due to their high poverty levels and vulnerability to climate change impacts. The design assessments found that the majority of the population had a low level of understanding of climate risk and vulnerability and low capacity to adapt. Likely impacts of climate change upon children include reduced ability to attend school, malnutrition, food insecurity, increasedworkloads, increased child abuse and increasedmorbidity andmortality fromwaterandvector-bornediseases.All fourprovincesare locatedontheEastern seaboard and are regularly subjected to extremeweather events such as typhoons, storm surges and flooding. The project areas were severely affected by Typhoon Haiyan inNovember 2013, as well as earlier TyphoonsUtor andNari in Aurora province. 3UnitedNationsUniversity – Institute forEnvironment andHumanSecurity (UNU-EHS). 2014. WorldRiskReport 2014. Bonn,Germany. 4UnitedNationsDevelopment Programme. 2014.HumanDevelopment Report 2014, Sustaining HumanProgress:ReducingVulnerabilities andBuildingResilience.NewYork. 5PAGASA.2011.ClimateChange in thePhilippines: PAGASA,ADAPTAYO&MDG.F. 16 EvaluatingClimateChangeAdaptation inPractice:AChild-Centred. . . 291