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This guidance note guides practitioners on integrating climate considerations into social protection, emphasising its importance, proposing adaptation strategies, and providing key resources.Climate change will reshape the challenges social protection policies address, necessitating significant adjustments.Social protection can help mitigate climate-induced poverty, support resilience and adaptation, and contribute to environmental sustainability. To remain effective, programs must expand coverage, adapt to mass climate shocks, and include vulnerable groups like migrants and urban populations.

• Bangladesh
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Niger
• Somalia
• Zambia
• Social Protection
• Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility (STAAR)
• 2023

This report outlines the status of international public climate finance going to social protection, focusing on three categories of climate finance providers, bilateral, multilateral development banks, and the climate funds. It proposes options for more efficient and targeted use of climate finance for social protection. The report reviewed existing literature that looks at climate finance and social protection and assessed the climate finance strategies and portfolios of the major international public climate finance providers.

• United Kingdom
• Social Protection
• Climate Finance
• Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility (STAAR)
• 2024

The blog written by written by Zac Lowndes-Bull, Engagement Manager Climate Finance, Pegasys, in collaboration with the STAAR Facility discusses the growing interest in integrating social protection measures into climate change responses. It highlights recent international developments, such as the formation of the Loss and Damage Fund and the Global Shield Initiative, which increasingly consider social protection in their strategies.

• Social Protection
• Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility (STAAR)
• 2024

This brief highlights how climate change disproportionately affects women and girls due to existing gender inequalities. Social protection systems can enhance their resilience and promote gender equality. Key recommendations include collecting gender-disaggregated data, conducting gender-specific climate risk analyses, and fostering women’s leadership in climate resilience planning. Collaboration with civil society and local actors is essential to integrating gender-responsive approaches into social protection policies and strengthening women’s capacity to cope with climate challenges.

• Gender Equity
• Social Protection
• Humanitarian
• Social Protection Technical Assistance, Advice, and Resources Facility (STAAR)
• 2024

In this brief, the Nature Facility provides recommendations to FCDO in Uganda and DRC for programming and policy engagement priorities with joint conservation, development, and climate change objectives. Recommendations are in line with the requirements of Official Development Assistance (ODA) and the “nature for climate and people” pillar of the UK’s International Climate Finance (ICF) strategy.

• Uganda
• Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• Diplomacy and policy influencing
• Nature Facility
• 2024

This report recommends investing in water-saving measures, traditional soil and water conservation techniques, agroforestry, livestock integration, and organic farming. It also suggests enhancing governance of land and natural resources, testing nature-based restoration in degraded areas, and building data infrastructure for climate-resilient agriculture.

• Morocco
• Agriculture, Land-use, and Forestry
• Diplomacy and policy influencing
• Nature Facility
• 2023

This tool guides FCDO staff in integrating five core environmental principles—integration, prevention, rectification at source, polluter pays, and precautionary—into policy development. It provides a structured framework with targeted questions to ensure environmental considerations are embedded in decision-making processes. After internal trials, the Energy, Climate and Environment Directorate implemented the tool across the FCDO on November 1, 2023, aligning with the statutory duty's commencement.

• United Kingdom
• Biodiversity / Ecosystem Conservation and Management (Terrestrial and Marine)
• Diplomacy and policy influencing
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Nature Facility
• 2023

This report considers how disability inclusion is integrated into climate justice frameworks and environmental and climate risk assessment processes. It concludes with key considerations for ensuring people with disabilities are included in analysis of risk and do no harm in climate, energy, and environment programmes.

• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Disability Inclusion Helpdesk
• 2023

This report provides a rapid review of the emerging evidence on best practice of disability inclusion in nature-based solutions programming.There is an increasing focus on Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) to address the climate crisis. Whilst there is increasing awareness of the importance of disability inclusion in climate action, there is limited evidence available on disability inclusion and nature-based solutions programming.

• Nature based solutions
• Disability Inclusion Helpdesk
• 2022

This evidence digest includes a guest blog on prioritising disability inclusion in climate action, and the latest evidence and guidance on disability inclusion, at time of writing. This includes programme learning, the impacts of COVID-19, and finance for disability inclusion.

• Zimbabwe
• Climate Resilience and Adaptation
• Disability Inclusion Helpdesk
• 2021