Climate, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration Guidance
Tackling risks stemming from climate change, environmental degradation and natural hazards in an integrated manner is one of the greatest challenges of today. The impacts of these risks threaten the resilience of systems and communities. The limited coping capacities of developing countries render them particularly vulnerable.
The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, prevent the build-up of new risks and avoid environmental degradation is a key challenge for all countries seeking to avoid the loss of development achievements.
Climate, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration Guidance
The Climate, Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration Guidance (CEDRIG) is a practical and user-friendly tool developed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. It helps you systematically integrate climate, disaster risk reduction and environment (C/D/E) into development cooperation and humanitarian aid so that your interventions can enhance the overall resilience of systems and communities.
This tool comes in two modules. CEDRIG Strategic applies to country and domain strategies, cooperation frameworks, and programme frameworks. CEDRIG Operational applies to projects and programmes. For the sake of simplicity, this guidance uses strategy and project to distinguish between the Strategic and Operational applications.
CEDRIG takes a risk perspective to determine whether existing and planned strategies or projects are at risk from climate change, natural hazards or environmental degradation, and takes an impact perspective to analyse whether these approaches may have adverse impacts on the climate or the environment, or may create new or exacerbate existing natural hazards.
The tool then provides methodological and sector-specific assistance to help you avoid putting your development investments at risk, avoid adverse impacts of your intervention, and look for entry points where you can generate synergies and co-benefits thereby optimising your intervention.
CEDRIG leads you through a structured process that supports you in developing systemic approaches and thinking.
The tool offers two independent modules
Signing up for this free-of-charge tool provides you with full access to the tool and the two CEDRIG modules. You agree that your data will be stored, and that if you select the public setting for the status of your studies, your data will be accessible to other users. Your data will not be shared outside of the CEDRIG community. You will also be able to learn from others and share your experience.
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