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Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA)

Collaborative Water Resource Planning for an Uncertain Future

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 at a glance

Language versions of the CRIDA manual are available

(English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic)

Countries have applied the CRIDA methodology

Case studies

3,096

People trained

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.

CRIDA Brochure

Map of Case Studies

CRIDA in International Frameworks

Since its inception, the CRIDA methodology has received a gradually increasing recognition in international frameworks. The World Bank's "Resilience Rating System: A Methodology for Building and Tracking Resilience to Climate Change" rates CRIDA as an A+ method for developing resilience projects in the water sector as of 2021. Additionally, CRIDA has been acknowledged by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) as one of the methods for addressing uncertainties and fostering adaptive planning in the GCF water projects design phase as indicated in the GCF Water Project Design Guidelines, published in 2023.