This guideline provides a methodology that was developed based on some early risk and vulnerability assessments carried out by HELVETAS, in different sub-sectors and countries, for integrating issues of climate risks and vulnerabilities into market systems.
The overall objective of the guideline is to identify the most climate-resilient sub-sectors in a given context and to determine the potential impacts and relevant measures in the field of adaptation to climate change and disaster risk management to further increase resilience in market systems.
The guideline can be applied in the following exemplary (not exclusive) cases:
- Actors identify best options for the selection of the most resilient sub-sectors
- Actors adapt their involvement in a market system based on climate risk resilience
- Actors determine options to make a sub-sector more climate resilient
- Actors understand the impacts of climate change on natural resource based sub-sectors in the short term (1 to 5 years) and mid-term (6 to15 years).
The guideline was developed by a pool of experts at the Advisory Service Department at HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation in Switzerland and the country programme of Nepal.
Useful for:
Programme staff and partners as they adapt to climate shocks in their sectors of focus.