Screening Tools and Guidelines to Support the Mainstreaming of Climate Change Adaptation into Development Assistance – A Stocktaking Report

AIMED AT: Policy Makers PURPOSE: To take stock of the climate risk screening tools, mainstreaming guidelines, and portfolio screening experience from the donor community GEOGRAPHICAL AREA: Global TECHNICAL AREA: Mainstreaming, climate change BASIC STRUCTURE: The report explores the rationale for mainstreaming, outlines the main components necessary to operationalize mainstreaming, and indicates the various relevant levels and associated entry points to consider in the mainstreaming process. After this, it discusses and illustrates how key climate change adaptation and mainstreaming concepts are defined and used – both in relevant literature and in practice – as well as how they relate to development. It then focuses on climate risk screening methods tools and guidance and explores how climate risk screening efforts can be categorized in relation to mainstreaming, plus the components of mainstreaming that are addressed in the variety of climate risk screening tools and guidance. Finally, it provides a comparative overview and analysis of climate risk screening tools and guidance.

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