Climate-Resilient Development

A Framework for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change

USAID’s Climate-Resilient Development Framework (2014) offers a simple yet robust five-stage approach to help decisionmakers and development practitioners at all levels systematically assess climate-related risks and prioritize actions that promote climate-resilient development.

Developed by USAID, this “development-first” approach helps decisionmakers and practitioners integrate climate considerations directly into development activities across multiple sectors, keeping the focus on achieving development goals despite a changing climate. Working with USAID missions, governments, and other stakeholders, the framework has been used in Barbados, Jamaica, Nepal, Peru, the Philippines, St. Lucia, Tanzania, and West Africa.

• Climate-Resilient Development: A Framework for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change
• Annex: Climate Change and Coastal Zones
• Annex: Climate Change and Conflict
• Annex: Climate Change and Water
• Annex: Governing for Resilience
• Annex: Working with Marginal Populations
• Annex: Climate Vulnerability Assessment