Background

Aim

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation created CEDRIG to help development and humanitarian actors determine whether existing and planned strategies and projects are at risk from climate change, natural hazards, and environmental degradation, and whether these interventions could further exacerbate GHG emissions, risks of natural hazards or environment degradation.

This analysis defines measures that help you avoid putting development investments at risk, avoid adverse impacts of an intervention, and look for entry points to generate synergies and co-benefits and thereby optimise an intervention.

Approach

CEDRIG follows an integrated approach to assess the risks for – and the unintended potential negative impacts of – a new or existing strategy or project. By its application, existing or planned interventions become more climate-, risk- and environment-smart. The two CEDRIG modules are CEDRIG Strategic, which helps you analyse ongoing or new strategies, and CEDRIG Operational, which applies to new or ongoing projects.

Structure of CEDRIG

Each of the two CEDRIG modules has two parts:

• In Part I, you conduct a context analysis of your intervention following steps that consider climate change, disaster risk and environmental exposure and vulnerabilities. The context analysis should preferably be conducted during the project or strategy development phase, but can be done at a later stage.
• In Part II, you assess the project or strategy’s potential risks from climate change, natural hazards and environmental degradation as well as the potential impacts the project or strategy may have on the climate, natural hazards and the environment. You then identify measures to optimise the project or strategy based on this assessment. Carrying out Part II calls for at least a draft of the project or strategy’s main components.

CEDRIG goes beyond the identification of risks and impacts, and aims at optimising a project or strategy. You should use the context analysis, the project or strategy analysis, and the available Thematic Integration Briefs to identify measures that minimise the risks that C/D/E pose to a project or strategy, that minimise the negative impacts of the project or strategy on C/D/E, and that create positive impacts on C/D/E as well as synergies and co-benefits.

• • Part I : Context analysis
  • Part II : Project/Strategy analysis
  • Thematic Integration Briefs

• Identification of project/strategy optimisations

  • Minimising risks that C/D/E pose to your project/strategy

  • Minimising negative impacts that your project/strategy has on C/D/E

  • Creating positive impacts on C/D/E, and on synergies and co-benefits

Procedure

If you are assessing a strategy, you should start with the context analysis of CEDRIG Strategic, and if you are assessing a project, start with CEDRIG Operational.

Once you finalise Part I, you should be able to develop your project or strategy in a way that takes C/D/E risks and impacts into account. With a draft project or strategy – or one you are already implementing – you may continue with Part II of CEDRIG Strategic or CEDRIG Operational. Part II is a workshop that includes all stakeholders, and applies the findings of Part I and the available Thematic Integration Briefs to guide the discussions.

See the decision tree below to find an approach suitable to your situation.

What kind of approach are you assessing?

• Project

  CEDRIG Operational

  Part I : Context analysis

  The Context analysis can be based on existing context analysis. It can be done by the team or by hiring an external consultant.

  Do you already have a concrete or draft project?

  • No :

    Develop draft project

    Use Context analysis (Part I) and Thematic Integration Briefs

  • Yes :

    Part II : Project analysis

    Use Context analysis (Part I) and Thematic Integration Briefs

• Strategy

  CEDRIG Strategic

  Part I : Context analysis

  The Context analysis can be based on existing context analysis. It can be done by the team or by hiring an external consultant.

  Do you already have a concrete or draft strategy?

  • No :

    Develop draft strategy

    Use Context analysis (Part I) and Thematic Integration Briefs

  • Yes :

    Part II : Strategy analysis

    Use Context analysis (Part I) and Thematic Integration Briefs