78 Chapter 3 Other combinations include a strategizing tool (EIDOS, Mali), and participatory scenario analysis that was quantified in a policy simulation tool (Threshold21, Senegal). Policy documents mention to rely on donor funding for the design and implementation of anticipation processes, but such information was not as detailed as in the reports and literature. For example, anticipation processes were often stated to have been initiated by the national government without specifying the department and its funding partners. In addition, there is generally little information about the design of the process and how its recommendations were used to inform decision-making was generally; and when provided, it was scattered throughout the policy document. Most clear accounts of the use of anticipation were the publication of quantitative scenarios in figures and graphs, but for participatory processes is it much more difficult to trace how recommendation informed decision-making. 3.4.2. Three processes: conceptions of the future, implications for actions in the present and ultimate aims The section nowmoves onto an examination of three processes that are diverse in terms of the type of methods and tools used but have in common an intention to inform decision-making. This allows for analyzing if anticipation processes align with a given approach or multiple approaches to anticipatory governance. Additional interviews were conducted to complement the analysis with perspectives regarding often-implicit conceptions of the future, implications for actions in the present and the ultimate aims intended to be realized. The first process is the West African Biodiversity and Climate Change (WABiCC) Program, a large five-year program where many future-oriented capacity building activities are organized to support countries in the formulation of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). The process was initiated and designed by Tetra Tech ARD in association with Palladium, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) of the Colombia University, PCI Media, Pact Inc and Born Free USA, and funded by USAID. In 2018, WABiCC organized a series of workshops facilitated by CIESIN (Columbia University) in West African coastal countries (Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Togo) to deliberatively discuss how climate information, generation and use could be improved in policy trajectories for future climate adaptation and coastal resilience. In its 2018 workshops series in West African coastal countries, WABiCC focused on improving the access to and understanding of high-quality portals and models. Participants worked for the meteorological services, ministerial departments (including water resources, agriculture, climate change, agriculture, food security and energy), the Environmental Protection Agency. During the workshops,
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