Resilience and Adaptation Planning for Communities in Protected Areas provides the practical tools needed to effectively engage with communities living in, and around, PAs regarding appropriate strategies to deal with the negative impacts of climate change. This manual outlines a practical and pragmatic community-based resilience and adaptation planning process, offering step-by-step guidance on initiating the planning process, engaging the community in it and refining and implementing action plans. This manual is aimed at practitioners from non-governmental organisations (NGOs), government departments, PA management and research institutions with some experience in participatory work and a good understanding of climate change. The process described can be used to work with communities living in, and around, PAs of any management or governance type (for instance, co-management, state-run or community-governed) and can be tailored to different contexts. In addition, the detailed instructions on undertaking the community-based workshop component of the process, along with several practical annexes, are ideal for training workshop facilitators. The resilience and adaptation planning process outlined in this manual is broken down into three main sections: ‘Preparation’, ‘Workshop’ and ‘Refining and Implementing’. ‘Preparation’ provides guidance on the important elements to consider when initiating the process, as well as specific logistical preparations for the community-based workshop component of the process. ‘Workshop’ covers the community-based workshop component of the resilience and adaptation planning process. It starts with the Community Planning Workshop which assesses the vulnerability of the community to climate change, maps resources and capacities, gathers information on local values and future aspirations, and develops Community Action Plans. These action plans aim to build resilience to climate change through various measures, including adaptation options. Following this, a series of one-on-one follow-up Interviews complement information gathered in the workshop, and a Scenario Development Exercise tests how robust the Community Action Plans are, offering improvements where necessary. Overall, the community-based workshop component has been designed to empower communities and is an important entry point for engagement.