as the process benefits from more information and from greater participation a virtuous cycle should lead to successive improvements in development outcomes including strengthened accountability and improved governance represented by the movement along the red arrows away from the origin in figure iv some of the key characteristics of such an iterative policy process aimed towards achieving adaptation and climate resilience are better understood using specific examples as shown below the sustainable water management improves tomorrows cities health switch project in lima was designed was designed to enable continuous learning from local experience and from the experience of stakeholders and to build on smallscale experiments