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This paper examines whether and how disaster risk reduction (DRR), social protection (SP), and livelihoods (LH) approaches can contribute to adaptive capacity to climate change. Section 2 of the paper reviews concepts of risk, vulnerability and resilience. Section 3 describes adaptive capacity and outlines the spectrum of activities employed under climate change adaptation (CCA) interventions. Section 4 reviews the objectives, concepts and definitions of DRR, SP and LH approaches, what these mean in terms of programming and their links with CCA. Section 5 discusses how these different approaches can contribute to adaptive capacity, while Section 6 concludes.