Portfolio screening to support the mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change into development assistance
AIMED AT: Policy makers PURPOSE: To respond to the need to mainstream adaptation to climate change into development planning and ongoing sectoral decision GEOGRAPHICAL AREA: Global TECHNICAL AREA: Mainstreaming, climate change BASIC STRUCTURE: The paper assesses the screening of the development agencies' project portfolios activities to date, focusing on both the results and the methods applied. Based on this assessment the paper identifies opportunities for development agencies to expand their current focus on the links between climate and development. Most agencies already consider climate change as a real but uncertain threat to future development, but they have given less thought to how different development patterns might affect vulnerability to climate change. The screenings undertaken have shown the need to take a comprehensive approach to adaptation and its integration into development planning and sectoral decision-making, and a number of policy initiatives have been taken to promote such integration. The paper provides some initial guidance as to how portfolio screening can be carried out in a way that would allow agencies to assess systematically the relevance of climate change to their ongoing and planned development projects.
Portfolio screening to support the mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change into development assistance.pdf
