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ADAPTING TO CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE: A GUIDANCE MANUAL FOR DEVELOPMENT PLANNING

AIMED AT: Planners and stakeholders who cope with a changing climate PURPOSE: The USAID Global Climate Change Team developed this Adaptation Guidance Manual to assist Missions and other partners to understand how climate change may affect their project outcomes and identify adaptation options to integrate into the design for more resilient projects. GEOGRAPHICAL AREA: Developing countries TECHNICAL AREA: Climate variability and change BASIC STRUCTURE: This document presents the six- step approach for assessing vulnerability and identifying and implementing climate change adaptations (V&A approach) which follows a developmental path parallel to the more general project cycle. STEP 1 is to screen for vulnerability that involves screening a current or proposed project design to determine if it might be affected by climate variability or climate change. STEP 2 is to identify adaptation options for modifying the project in response to vulnerabilities identified by step 1. STEP 3 is to conduct analysis, implementing partners, stakeholders and experts to evaluate each of the adaptation options. The purpose of STEP 4 is to use the results from Step 3 to select one or more adaptations to be implemented with assistance form the project or program. STEP 5 are implement adaptations and STEP 6 is to evaluate adaptations.

01 jan. 2016

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