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Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA)
Integrating climate change considerations into water resources planning is increasingly important due to the impact of climate change on water-related disasters and water security. While climate science has provided a global overview of climate change and its impacts on the water cycle, it offers limited guidance for local adaptation. Water managers and planners face challenges in utilizing Global Circulation Models for local decision making due to their associated uncertainty and limitations. To meet this need, UNESCO and its partners developed the Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA) methodology, a participatory and bottom-to-up approach for integrating climate change into water resources planning. CRIDA offers a step-by-step process to address challenges in sustainable water management.
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CRIDA has gained worldwide recognition
since its publication and has been used in more than 25 case studies implemented in 22 countries from 2018 to 2022.
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CRIDA in International Frameworks
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International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management
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Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)
Contact: www.alliance4water.org/contact-us
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