When it rains it pours

This morning as I was coming to work, I saw that they had the manhole covers off the sewers in my street and were cleaning them out. And for some reason I thought to myself...adaptation. I think I am starting to become too acclimatized for my own good. But it got me thinking, because everyone talks about adaptation and mitigation, but rarely in the same sentence.

Adaptation—alteration, adjustment, modification, redesign, remodeling, revamping, conversion

Mitigation—the action of reducing the severity, seriousness or painfulness of something  

So, I got to thinking how can adaptation and mitigation become more integrated and what is the role of development agencies in this process. The funny thing is that I can't fully wrap my little brain around this yet...but I was hoping that if we had some sort of collective consciousness that maybe we as an Institute could come up with ways that Micro-Finance, Meso-Finance and Research could proactively promote this discussion and more importantly provide a road map forward.