Author: CARE, International, Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Year of publication: 2010
Available languages: English, Spanish
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk assessment
Details: Toolkit set out to aid integration of adaptation, disaster risk reducition mesasures into the policy or project cycle
Format of assessment: Guideline
Details: The toolkit proposes two tools (Policy Cycle & Project Document Checklist) to incorporate considerations for risk management and adaptation into their policy or project
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Policy-makers and project planners in either the political sphere and/or within development practice
Institutional scale of use: Multiple (see details)
Details: Global, national, local, regional or sectoral
Assesment to be used by which target audience: State level decision makers
Output: Others (see details)
Details: Reports, case studies, vulnerability analysis, project cycle diagram
Region of origin: Europe, North America
Developed by which sector: Science, Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Sectors covered: Agriculture, Livelihood sector, Water sector, Financial sector, Biodiversity, Forestry, Fishery, Infrastructure, Not sector specific
Details: Climate-sensitive development policy and practice (incl. all related sectors, e.g. WASH, agriculture, transport, infrastructure, etc.)
Method used: Other (see details)
Description of methodology: Project planners are given two options on how to use the toolkit, either they use the step-by-step guideline for the project cycle if still at the beginning of the agenda-setting of the project or a Project Document Checklist. These are qualitative measures. The former is based on a project cycle diagram.
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: Vulnerability, exposure, hazard
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Changing precipitation patterns, Changing temperature patterns, Loss of biodiversity, Extreme temperatures, Extreme rainfall, Drought, Flood, Wildfire, Vulcanic eruption, Earthquake, Tsunami
Source of required data: Secondary (available data is used)
Details: All relevant (incl. historical, local) climate data depending on data availability; the toolkit offers also a "climate context monitoring tool" to regularly review changes in the climate context during the lifecycle of a project
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: Partly
Details: This toolkit requires policy makers and project planners to implement climate-sensitive development projects; and uses an extensive set of case studies and participatory fieldwork in which they have implemented/analysed different adaptation measures undertaken in the Global South.
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Yes
Details: All climate-related risks, but also risks related vulnerability to climate change, including poverty, gender and marginalisation
Adressing uncertainty: Yes
Details: Consideration of uncertainty in climate projections and prioritization of win-win options; monitoring of uncertainties over project implementation
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts, identification of adaptation options
Details: Once risks are assessed, project planners can integrate adequate risk-management and adaptation measures into their policy/project. The toolkit offers a guideline, case studies and recommendations in this regard.
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Details: Economic factors are referred to as a needed 'variable' in analysis, but economic losses are not specified further. Stronger focus on non-economic losses.
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Yes
Usefulness for political purposes: NAPs, local action plans, etc.
Applied by whom: CARE, IISD
Open access: Yes