Strengthening Climate Resilience: Guidance for Governments and Development Co-operation is a joint output of the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD) and Environment Directorate (ENV). The guidance was prepared under the overall leadership of Jorge Moreira da Silva, Director of the Development Co-operation Directorate and Rodolfo Lacy, Director of the Environment Directorate. Haje Schütte, Head of Financing for Sustainable Development Division of DCD, and Simon Buckle, Head of Climate, Biodiversity and Water Division of ENV provided strategic guidance. Jens Sedemund provided overall orientation.
The guidance was drafted by Takayoshi Kato and Nicolina Lamhauge. The authors are grateful for the oversight, review, information and comments provided by the Network on Environment and Development Co-operation (ENVIRONET) of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and the Working Party on Climate, Investment, and Development (WPCID) of the Environment Policy Committee (EPOC).
This guidance is informed by a series of case studies. The authors thank the officials and their teams for their valuable input and support, including from Ghana (Antwi-Boasiako Amoah), Guatemala (Juan Carlos Diaz Contreras), Peru (Silvia Cristina Rodríguez Valladares and Blanca L. Aróstegui Sánchez), the Philippines (Remedios Soriano-Endencia), Senegal (Ousmane Fall Sarr) and Uttarakhand, India (R.N.Jha).
The authors are also thankful for feedback provided by experts from various organisations: African Adaptation Initiative (Kulthoum Omari-Motsumi), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Julia Wolf), German Development Evaluation Institute (Martin Noltze, Alexandra Köngeter, Cornelia Römling, Dirk Hoffmann and Sven Harten), Inter-American Development Bank (Jennifer Doherty-Bigara), International Institute for Environment and Development (Ritu Bharadwaj and Ced Hesse), International Institute for Sustainable Development (Angie Dazé), Global Centre on Adaptation (Michael Mullan), Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (Espen Ronneberg), United Nations Capital Development Fund (Ludovica Amatucci and Sophie De Coninck), UNEP DTU Partnership (Jingjing Gao, Sara Lærke Meltofte Trærup and Henry Neufeldt) and World Meteorological Organization (Jochen Luther).
Finally, the authors thank OECD colleagues for their careful review and input: Catherine Anderson, Charles Baubion, Valentina Bellesi, Juan Casado Asensio, Lisa Danielson, Marc De Tollenaere, Rafael Duque Figueira, Catherine Gamper, Alejandro Guerrero-Ruiz, Anjali Karnavar, Stephanie Lyons, Carolyn Neunuebel, Mikaela Rambali, Rachel Scott, Heiwon Shin, Chantal Verger and Dawn Wells. The production benefited from the assistance of Sama Al Taher Cucci, Sabrina Bouldi, Stacey Bradbury, Sara Casadevall-Bellés, Stephanie Coic, Beth Del Bourgo, Emmanuel Deschamps, Meria Greco, Samantha Proteau, Ines Reale, Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte, Shashwati Shankar Padmanabhan and Jessica Voorhees.