Screening Tools & Guidelines to Support Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Development Assistance

The report explores the rationale for mainstreaming, outlines the main components necessary to operationalize mainstreaming, and indicates the various relevant levels and associated entry points to consider in the mainstreaming process. The report 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. Whereas Section 2 and 3 take the concept of mainstreaming as the point of departure, Sections 4 and 5 focus on climate risk screening methods tools and guidance. Section 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. A comparative overview and analysis of climate risk screening tools and guidance is provided in Section 5, followed by brief conclusions in Section 6.