Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development planning
AIMED AT: Policy makers PURPOSE: THE report reviews the main approaches proposed and lessons learned form relevant experiences in the Asia- Pacific Region GEOGRAPHICAL AREA: Asia- Pacific Region THEMATIC AREA: Mainstreaming adaptation into development planning BASIC STRUCTURE: The expected benefits of mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development activities include avoided policy conflicts; reduced risks and vulnerability; greater efficiency compared to managing adaptation separately, and leveraging the much larger financial flows in sectors affected by climate risks that the amounts available for financing adaptation separately. Mainstreaming adaptation into development planning will need to consider at least national, sectoral and sub- national levels. Several guides and frameworks have been proposed on how to integrate climate change concerns into ongoing national development processes: four-step framework for mainstreaming at national level, framework with three main components: 1) finding the entry points and making the case 2) mainstreaming adaptation into policy processes and 3) meeting the implementation challenge. The third framework was developed by OECD and was comprehensive and oriented towards national policy and planning systems and it is very complex.
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