The Adaptation Coalition Toolkit was developed to promote the World Bank's strategic priority to empower people by creating more inclusive, cohesive, and accountable societies in the face of climate change. The purpose of this toolkit is to guide facilitating groups or teams of development practitioners in pursuing participatory collaboration with communities to research and implement adaptation coalitions. This is done to assist the locality in adapting to the local manifestations of climate change. Using the Adaptation Coalition Framework (ACF) as an adaptation tool, strategically links the multiple resources of market, state and civil society at various levels to best facilitate the adaptation of vulnerable communities to climate change. The framework facilitates informed local participation in the policy making process by which decisions on adaptation can be made. Building capacity for informed participation is especially critical for adapting to climate change. This is because climate change impacts are, on the one hand, highly variable, longer-term and difficult to predict, and on the other hand, have unique local effects due to the distinct social, economic and environmental conditions of every community.