Guidelines for integrating Climate Change Considerations into Commune Development Planning - General, 2014 (Cambodia)

The Guidelines for Integrating Climate Change Considerations into Commune Development Planning is in the form of a Working Training Manual. The Manual is an output of the Coastal Adaptation and Resilience Planning Component (CARP) as initiated by the Cambodia Climate Change Alliance (CCCA). The objective of CARP is to increase resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems to climate change through adaptation planning, demonstrated targeted local interventions and provision of practical learning experience in adaptation planning. The Manual identifies potential means whereby climate change related issues could be identified and addressed such as hotspot maps, detailed land use maps, problem maps, data books and the like. The Manual is  designed to add Climate Change considerations into the planning process for communes to complement existing data/analysis, so that decisions and investments can be made with an understanding of climate change projections and/or the expectation of extreme weather events. These considerations are particularly intended to assist assessment of evidence of climate change in the specific areas being studied, using existing data; whether any such climate change is significantly affecting the economic, social and/or environmental conditions in the areas being studied; whether the vulnerability of the area and/or its population to climate change is changing over time; and whether there are adaptation measures which can be incorporated into the planning process to increase the resilience of the area and/or its population to climate change.