Safeguarding development aid against climate change: evaluating progress and identifying best practice

Nicola Ranger, Alex Harvey and Su-Lin Garbett-Shiels

Development in Practice, 2014, vol. 24, issue 4, 467-486

Abstract: Official development assistance currently totals around US$130 billion per year, an order of magnitude greater than international climate finance. To safeguard development progress and secure the long-term effectiveness of these investments, projects must be designed to be resilient to climate change. This article reviews 250 projects for three countries from two development organisations and finds that between 2% and 30% of these may require action now to “future-proof” investments and policies. Both organisations show improvements in the recognition of climate change in projects, but many projects are still not future-proof.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2014.911818

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