Author: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Year of publication: 2009
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk assessment
Format of assessment: Guideline
Estimated costs for conducting: Low
Estimated duration of assessment: 1 hour
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Development organizations and humanitarian actors - Project manager/officer or in a small group including relevant stakeholders
Institutional scale of use: Multiple (see details)
Details: Strategic level in development organizations, projects or programmes
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Multiple actors
Details: Decision makers in development cooperation and humanitarian aid
Output: Report
Region of origin: Europe
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Sectors covered: Not sector specific
Method used: Other (see details)
Description of methodology: Qualitative estimation of hazards (predefined list of hazards), likelihood (unlikely, likely, very likely), consequences (slightly harmful, harmful, extremely harmful) from a predefined table. Resulting risks (here risk significance) are then defined through a risk matrix.
Risk framework used: Broad risk mapping according to different definition
Risk components incorporated: Hazard, exposure
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Changing precipitation patterns, Changing temperature patterns, Loss of biodiversity, Extreme temperatures, Extreme rainfall, Drought, Flood, Wildfire
Source of required data: Secondary (available data is used)
Details: No data needed, only qualitative estimation. Provides sources for hazard identification
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: Partly
Details: Can be done in a participatory manner and individually
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No
Adressing uncertainty: No
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Details: The estimation of consequences can incorporate all kinds of losses as it is an open category
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Applied by whom: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Open access: Yes