Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation: Policy Guidance

AIMED AT: Sectoral Ministries, local governments, project planners and donor agencies PURPOSE: This policy guidance is intended to provide policy makers and practitioners in development co-operation agencies with information and advice on how to mainstream climate change into development. GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS: Global TECHNICAL AREAS: Climate change adaptation, development co- operation BASIC STRUCTURE: Implementing and “mainstreaming” adaptation is the approach of this policy guidance. While in certain situations stand- alone adaptation measure will be needed – for example to partially drain a potentially dangerous glacial lake- in most other cases adaptation measures will need to be implemented as part of a broader suite of measures within existing development processes and decision cycles. This is known as “mainstreaming”. This policy guidance takes an integrated or “whole of government” approach to adaptation. Specifically, four levels of governance are examined: centralised national ministries and decision processes at the national level; sectoral ministries; project level; and the local level which includes both urban and rural contexts.

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