The document proposes a Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (CSDRM) approach to strengthen climate resilience. The approach has three pillars:
1. Tackle changing disaster risks and uncertainties by integrating climate adaptation, disaster risk management, and development efforts across sectors and scales through collaboration.
2. Enhance adaptive capacity by strengthening the ability of communities, organizations, and networks to innovate through learning and reflection, and ensuring flexible, accountable policies.
3. Address poverty and vulnerability by promoting equitable and just economic systems, advocating for basic rights, and empowering communities to influence decisions through participatory and transparent processes.
The approach is intended to guide planning, policy, programs and evaluation to build