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Conducting the climate risk assessment is the second phase of climate risk management for activities, following planning for the assessment. Conducting a climate risk assessment consists of three interrelated steps—assessing climate risks, addressing climate risks, and planning for adaptive management. The assessment also involves consideration of opportunities to enhance results and build climate resilience.

Planning for the climate risk assessment is the first phase of climate risk management for activities. This phase entails planning for an assessment of climate risks and opportunities. Planning involves two major steps, the order of which is not strict—reviewing previously completed assessments and determining the appropriate assessment approach.

This page introduces the implementation of climate risk management (CRM) for activity design and implementation. CRM is also implemented for strategies and projects. Although USAID policy allows flexibility in the application of climate risk management (CRM), the process generally comprises four phases (with several steps within each phase)—planning for the assessment, conducting the assessment, incorporating the results of the assessment, and implementing and adaptively managing the activity.

While USAID has recently systematized its approach to climate risk management, USAID has been managing climate risks for years.

At USAID, doing climate risk management (CRM) entails more than just conducting a climate risk assessment. The assessment is important, but only part of a comprehensive, iterative four-phase process starting with planning and integrated into the design, implementation, and monitoring, evaluation and learning stages of the program cycle. CRM should not be viewed as a separate process but rather as an integral part of program design and implementation.