Integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the cooperation framework: Lessons, good practices and opportunities ahead

This paper summarizes key lessons and good practices identified in the roll-out of Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in the Cooperation Framework: Guidance Note on Using Climate and Disaster Risk Management to Help Build Resilience Societies in 2020–2025. It will be followed by an update of the full Guidance Note, to be published in 2026, with more in-depth, step-by-step guidance for the design and implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework. 

Some of the key lessons identified include:

• Risk analysis and Cooperation Framework interventions must consider a broad range of both short-term and long-term risks, including those created or exacerbated by climate change.
• All potential Cooperation Framework interventions should be reviewed in light of how they contribute to reducing risk and vulnerability and enabling long-term resilience pathways. Stress-testing the Cooperation Framework against multiple risk and/or foresight scenarios can help to identify blind spots.
• Cross-cutting inter-agency DRR/risk management groups can play an important role, particularly when risk management objectives are not easily addressed through existing UNCT structures owing to limited capacity.
• Continued risk monitoring is needed – not just at the start of the Cooperation Framework design process.