Author: USAID
Year of publication: 2017
Available languages: English Spanish
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk assessment
Format of assessment: Guideline
Estimated costs for conducting: Low
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Others
Details: Development practitioners
Institutional scale of use: Multiple (see details)
Details: Tool screens projects in a development cooperation portfolio, institutional scale varies according to the portfolio
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Multiple actors
Details: Regional / Country Development Cooperation Strategies, R/CDCS planners and support staff
Output: Excel sheet
Region of origin: North America
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Sectors covered: Not sector specific
Details: Sector-specific questions to further explore adaptive capacity are listed in the annexes
Method used: Other (see details)
Description of methodology: Qualitative evaluation of risk based on guiding questions and additional information provided (eg. risk profiles)
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: Data can be provided through risk profiles by USAID or by people with knowledge of the project to be assessed as well as the region
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: Partly
Details: Can be done with more than one person
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Partly
Details: Is not explicitly stated but can be done
Adressing uncertainty: No
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options, priorization 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: USAID
Open access: Yes