Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development planning: A Guide for Practitioners
AIMED AT: Practitioners engaged in mainstreaming activities PURPOSE: To provide practical, step-by-step guidance on how governments and other national actors can mainstream climate change adaptation into national development planning as part of broader mainstreaming efforts GEOGRAPHICAL AREA: Global TECHNICAL AREA:Mainstreaming, climate change adaptation, poverty alleviation BASIC STRUCTURE: The framework proposed here consists of three components, each of which involves a set of activities or modules for which a range of tactics, methodologies and tools can be used: (i) Finding the entry points and making the case is concerned with setting the stage for mainstreaming. It involves understanding the linkages between climate change and national development priorities and understanding the governmental, institutional and political contexts that inform efforts to define pro-poor adaptation outcomes, find entry points into development planning, and make the case for adaptation mainstreaming; (ii) Mainstreaming adaptation into policy processes focuses on integrating climate change adaptation issues into an ongoing policy process, such as a national development plan or sector strategy, based on country-specific evidence (i.e., impact, vulnerability and adaptation assessments, socio-economic analysis and demonstration projects); and (iii) Meeting the implementation challenge aims at ensuring mainstreaming of climate change adaptation into budgeting and financing, implementation and monitoring, and the establishment of mainstreaming as standard practice. Stakeholder engagement occurs throughout, from inception through policy development, implementation and monitoring.
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