Author: Swiss Agency for Development 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 day
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Development organisations and humanitarian actors - responsible staff and selected partners. Support by external consultant is recommended
Institutional scale of use: Multiple (see details)
Details: Strategic level in development organizations
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Multiple actors
Details: Development organizations and humanitarian actors
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: Humanitarian sector, Not sector specific
Method used: Other (see details)
Description of methodology: The first step is to conduct a comprehensive context assessment (hazards, official policies and strategies addressing climate change and DRR, map actors and stakeholders). Second step is to qualitatively estimate consequences, vulnerabilities, likelihood and based on this identify risk through a risk matrix. Additionally risks to be treated and measures should be identified
Risk framework used: Broad risk mapping according to different definition
Risk components incorporated: Hazard, likelihood, consequences, vulnerability, risk
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: Data for qualitative context analysis: policy documents, relevant development interventions. Sources for hazard identification provided
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: Should be conducted in a workshop setting
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No
Adressing uncertainty: No
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Yes
Applied by whom: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Open access: Yes