Climate risk screening and management tools
USAID has developed tools to support climate risk screening and management in strategy, project and activity design. These tools are meant to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of development interventions by helping the user to assess and address climate risk. In addition, each tool helps you produce the documentation required by the Mandatory References Climate Change in USAID Strategies and Climate Risk Management for USAID Projects and Activities. The Excel templates may be used to record your results. Country and regional Climate Risk Profiles and GHG Emissions Factsheets are also available to support this process.
Climate risk management is the process of assessing, addressing and adaptively managing climate risks that may impact the ability of USAID programs to achieve their objectives. The tools facilitate assessing and addressing climate risks during the design of strategies, projects and activities. A guide, which complements the tools, supports adaptively managing climate risks.
These tools are intended to be living documents that will be updated to incorporate feedback and learning as USAID missions and operating units use them to manage climate risk in strategies, projects and activities. We welcome your comments on the tools.