TOM DOWNING
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT
BANK GROUP

OVERVIEW OF CSS

BASED ON THE PROJECT CYCLE
Task Managers are faced with a well-defined project cycle and outputs. Projects must meet investment safeguarding standards.
Country planning is a scoping exercise that involves more than one stakeholder and bringing together a wealth of information for the
Bank's planning but also for public use.

• Envelopes of climate change: Uncertain futures

KNOWLEDGE BASE

KNOWLEDGE BASE
With Climate Systems
Analysis Group, University of
Cape Town:
• Agroecological zones
• Downscaled climate envelopes at the station level
• Templates for describing climate information for country strategy and at station-project level
Supporting documents & links

• Purpose: Determine what additional measures are required
• Outcome: Assignment of a project into one of three categories
• Method: Sectoral scorecards

CLIMATE SCREENING

Principles behind the screening tool
NOT dependent on projected climate impacts
NOT lengthy all-risk assessment
Designed with the Bank and for their portfolio in Africa
Easy and quick to apply
Highly transparent process
Simple but not simplistic
Additive scoring

SCORING AND PROJECT CATEGORIES

Project category definitions

• Purpose: Incorporate adaptation plans into project design
• Outcome: Selected measures for project documents
• Method: Filtering of purpose, components and activities based on simple criteria

AREP

PRINCIPLES
NOT prescriptive: many possible adaptation plans for a project
NOT driven by uncertain climate scenarios
NOT forcing all projects to conduct full climate audits
Highly transparent: Bank has control over the process
Time spent in mainstreaming adaptation is proportionate to the project category
Cost of adaptation activities is proportionate to financial risks
Driven by planning outputs and robust decision-making despite climate uncertainties

STEPS FOR THE 3 CATEGORIES

SELECT PURPOSE & COMPONENTS

SELECT ACTIVITIES

COMPLETE THE RLF

• Transparency: Fully managed by the Bank
• Accountability: Documents each step of the analysis as operational safeguard
• Results: Proactive management of projects to achieve climate resilience
• Tracking finance: Proportion assigned to ‘additional climate finance’ is relative to category of project

Tdowning@ClimateAdapttion.cc
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT
BANK GROUP
Partners:
• CSAG, UCT
• Atkins (water)
• iSpace (tools)

FOUNDATIONS
The Climate Risk
Management and
Adaptation Strategy sets a target to screen 80% of the Bank's projects by
2012
Implemented through the Climate Change
Action Plan 2010-2014

CATEGORY THRESHOLDS
The total score enables us to classify a project in one of the three categories.

USE CASES
Timothy works in the AfDB.
He has received a project proposal and been assigned to…
Use cases are a formal method in software design
Actor + Decision environment + Outcome
We have run hundreds of use cases at every stage to ensure our methods provide solutions to specific tasks in the Bank's project cycle