This report is an introduction to the Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (CSDRM) approach, which attempts to help disaster risk management practitioners and policymakers consider what ‘a climate smart organisation, programme of policy looks like in the real world’. This report is aimed at experts in their fields who are looking to integrate their knowledge on disaster risk with climate change adaptation and development perspectives. The CSDRM approach provides detailed guidelines for a process through which practitioners and teams can reflect on how to integrate climate change adaptation into their specific mission and goals. The bulk of the report is taken up with a number of ‘integration pathways’, which are step-by-step guides to developing an action plan for an organisation or programme. The integration pathways comprise a set of action points grouped around tackling changing disaster risks and uncertainties, enhancing adaptive capacity, and addressing the structural causes of poverty and vulnerability. The different integration pathways approach these questions from different entry points, providing different ways of framing the process which allow organisations to choose processes which will allow them to build on their strengths or develop areas in which they are weak. The report concludes with suggestions for applying this approach in different contexts and a summary of lessons learnt from researchers using the CSDRM approach in ten at-risk countries.
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