Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Development Planning: A Guide for Practitioners

This handbook provides step-by-step guidance on how governments and other national actors can mainstream climate change adaptation into national development planning as part of broader mainstreaming efforts. It describes key concepts related to mainstreaming, presents an overview of possible approaches to mainstreaming climate change adaptation, provides guidance on finding the entry points into national development planning, describes how to integrate climate change adaptation into policy processes, and offers guidance on meeting the implementation challenge.