It is increasingly recognized that small communities are likely to be the most severly affected by climate change impacts, and yet least equipped to cope and adapt. The Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) project, a five-year United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) global inititative that is funded by the Strategic Priority on Adaptation (SPA) of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), has been designed to pilot community-based projects that seek toenhance the resiliency of communities, and/or the ecosystems on which they rely on, to climate-change impacts. In ten participating countries (Bangladesh, Bolivia, Guatemala, Jamaica, Kazakhastan, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Samoa and Vietnam) small scale project/policy laboratories are created to build the resilience and adaptive capacity of local communities to climate change.