Case Study: Benchmarking Climate Change Resilience at Organizational, Community, and Sectoral Levels

Abstract

This chapter describes how the benchmarking procedure was applied on three groups at different levels of scale: organizational, community, and sectoral. It presents the climate change responsiveness profiles of three sectors: the academe, the youth, and a national government agency, the Department of Agriculture. Climate change responsiveness is defined as a determinant of resilience, along with risks and resources. Responsiveness has three elements: the amount of knowledge gain (?K); the degree of attitude change (?A); and the change in action or practice (?P). Climate change responsiveness (CCRp) profiling used a scorecard with a five-point scale: 1 as very low, 2 as low, 3 as moderate, 4 as high, and 5 as very high. Data gathering was conducted online through the Survey Monkey. Responses from almost 300 respondents resulted in the following scores: Department of Agriculture - 3.93 (high); the academe - 2.8 (moderate), and the youth sector - 2.59 (moderate).