Author: Tearfund
Year of publication: 2009
Available languages: English French Spanish Portuguese Arabic Bangla Burmese Nepali Urdu
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk assessment
Format of assessment: Guideline
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: At least 22 working days
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Development practitioners (can be done in collaboration between different agencies) or consultants
Institutional scale of use: Multiple (see details)
Details: Tool targets development cooperation projects and project locations
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Others (please specify)
Details: Development practitioners
Output: Report
Region of origin: Europe
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: No information
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Sectors covered: Not sector specific
Details: Design of development cooperation projects
Method used: Other (see details)
Description of methodology: Qualitative analysis: Detailled description of a step by step process to identify and prioritize hazards (scientific evidence and local knowledge should be considered), select adaptation options and prioritize options
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: All
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: All hazards
Source of required data: Primary and secondary
Details: Suggestions are provided for additional data to the information provided by community
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: Partly
Details: Focus group meetings, stakeholder inclusion are encouraged
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Partly
Details: Depends on the depth of assessment
Adressing uncertainty: No
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options, priorization of adaptation options, identification of limits to adaptation
Details: Consideration of unmanagable risks
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Partly
Details: Depends on selection of hazards
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Yes
Applied by whom: No information
Open access: Yes