Screening tools and guidelines to support the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation into development assistance

Environment and energy, stocktaking report:

This report provides a summary of existing tools and good practices from a range of organisations to guide development practitioners in their climate change adaptation and mainstreaming efforts, as part of the project “Integrating climate change risks into UN country programming and national development processes”.

The report is structured in the following way: it 1) introduces of the concept of "mainstreaming"; 2) explores the rationale for mainstreaming, outlines the main components necessary to operationalise mainstreaming, and indicates the various relevant levels and associated entry points to consider in the mainstreaming process; 3) discusses and illustrates how key climate change adaptation and mainstreaming concepts are defined and used – both in relevant literature and in practice – as well as how they relate to development; 4) explores how climate risk screening efforts can be categorized in relation to mainstreaming, plus the components of mainstreaming that are addressed in the variety of climate risk screening tools and guidance; 5) provides a comparative overview and analysis of climate risk screening tools and guidance is provided in Section; and 6) briefly concludes.