How To Open Universe In Information Design Tool

Welcome to the World Bank Climate and Disaster Risk Screening Tools

Climate and Disaster Risk Screening represents a proactive approach to considering short- and long-term climate and disaster risks in project and national/sector planning processes.

Screening is an initial, but essential, step to ensure these risks are assessed and managed to support mainstreaming of climate and disaster resilience into key development policies, programs, and projects.
Considering climate change and disasters in today's plans and projects, can increase the long-term success of development efforts, while realizing other co-benefits today.

Climate change and disasters pose a growing threat to development progress.

Over time, changes in temperature, precipitation patterns, and sea level will further threaten development.
For example, higher sea levels can flood coastal infrastructure, more frequent heat waves can threaten human health, and changing rain patterns can reduce agricultural yields.
Other hazards such as landslides, tsunamis, and extreme storms endanger communities, disrupt services, and damage property, setting back development progress.

Recognizing the challenges posed by climate and disaster risks to development progress, the World Bank is taking action.

The Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) commits to increasing the climate related share of the World Bank's portfolio to 28% by 2020.
As of July 2014, all operations funded by the International Development Association (IDA) must consider climate and disaster risks and address them as appropriate.
The screening commitment will continue under the new IDA18 replenishment.
As of July 1, 2017 the screening commitment also extends to all operations financed by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) as called for by the CCAP.

As part of the 17th IDA replenishment, IDA Deputies agreed to integrate climate change and disaster risk management into country planning, strategies, and financing. Specifically, they agreed that:

All IDA Country Partnership Frameworks (CPFs) should incorporate climate and disaster risk consideration into the analysis of the country's development challenges and priorities and, when agreed with the country, incorporate such considerations in the content of the programs and the results framework; and
All new IDA operations should be screened for short- and long-term climate change and disaster risks and, where risks exist, appropriate resilience measures should be integrated in the project design.

This screening commitment will continue under the 18th IDA replenishment beginning July 1, 2017.

The World Bank Climate Change Action Plan 2016-2020, endorsed in April 2016, commits risk screening to be extended to IBRD operations in early 2017, after a review of existing tools and the lessons drawn from application to IDA countries.

The Action Plan also reconfirms the World Bank's commitment to increase the climate- related share of its portfolio from 21 to 28 percent by 2020 in response to client demand, with total financing (including leveraged co-financing) of potentially $29 billion per year by 2020.

The Climate and Disaster Risk Screening Tools available on this website, can be used by development practitioners for high-level screening at an early stage of national level planning processes or project design:

An end-to-end sector specific guidance on how to use the screening tools can be found for the following sectors: Agriculture (click here to download), Water (click here to download), Energy (click here to download) , Health (click here to download) , Transportation (click here to download) and National/Policy Level (click here to download).
The tools link to climate projections, country adaptation profiles, and disaster risk data sources from the World Bank's Climate Change Knowledge Portal.
The data, combined with the user's understanding of the subject matter and country context, generates a characterization of risks to help inform dialogue, consultation, and planning processes at the project and program level. These tools can be applied to a range of development sectors in support of a) national plans and strategies and b) project level investments.
The greatest value of these tools is that they provide a self-paced, structured and systematic process for understanding climate and disaster risks to programs and investments.

Please note:

The ratings, while instructive, should be seen as informing further consultations and dialogue and as helping to determine the need for further studies in the course of project design or planning at the national/sector level.
The tools do not provide a detailed risk analysis, nor do they suggest specific options for increasing the project's resilience.

Application of these tools will help:

Learn about the climate trends and key geophysical hazards relevant to a specific country, or project.
Flag potential impacts and risks from climate and geophysical hazards in a systematic, consistent, and transparent way.
Inform the dialogue, consultation and planning processes at the project and program level.
Recognize the need for further detailed assessment during project preparation and or planning processes.
Identify other resources and tools to complement your assessments.

The tools apply an Exposure–Impact–Adaptive-capacity framework to assess risks.Click here for Methodology

Climate and disaster risk screening is most useful when carried out at an early stage of national level planning processes or project design.

The following are required to use the tools:

Project concept: For the project-level tools, the user should have some initial understanding of the project components and location.
Subject matter expertise: The tools rely on an understanding of the country or project context as well as professional expertise, knowledge, and judgment to evaluate the impacts and risks of climate change and disaster. The users of the tool are not expected to have specialized knowledge of climate change and disasters. Users will be able to access relevant climate and disaster information through the World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP).
Consultations: Where needed, we recommend users engage in a consultative process with relevant sector and country specialists.
Time: Time requirements will vary depending on the user's knowledge and consultations. On average, the rollout of the tool is estimated to take about 30 minutes for the Rapid Screening Assessment and about 2 hours for the In-depth Screening Assessment.

The tools are being offered as an open resource for development practitioners worldwide. Click here for additional screening tools that can complement the World Bank's Climate and Disaster Risk Screening Tools, or click here for additional useful resources.

Agriculture Rapid Screening Assessment

For projects in subsectors related to crops & land management, irrigation & drainage, livestock, rural transport, and storage & processing.

Energy Rapid Screening Assessment

For projects in subsectors related to energy efficiency in heat, power & end use, hydropower, oil, gas & coal mining, other renewable energy, thermal power generation, and transmission & distribution of electricity.

Finance Rapid Screening Assessment

For projects related to financial institutions and facilities. Please note: if the main investment of the project is sector-specific and covered by other project level tools (agriculture, energy, health, transportation, etc.), please refer to those tools.

Health Rapid Screening Assessment

For projects in subsectors related to communicable diseases, health infrastructure, health systems & services delivery, injuries, non-communicable diseases & other, and maternal, newborn, & child health or nutrition.

ICT Rapid Screening Assessment

For projects related to the information technology & software development industries, public & private telecommunications, internet infrastructure, and other modes of communications & data transmission.

Industry Rapid Screening Assessment

For projects related to industries such as manufacturing, housing construction, petrochemicals and fertilizers & chemical processing; mining & metals; and solid waste management.

Natural Resources Rapid Screening Assessment

For projects related to biodiversity, forestry, fisheries/aquaculture, and coastal flood protection.

Urban Development Rapid Screening Assessment

For projects related to general urban development, such as improving emergency response infrastructure and capacity in an urban area. Please note: if the main investment of the project is sector-specific and covered by other project level tools (agriculture, energy, health, transportation, etc.), please refer to those tools.

Transportation Rapid Screening Assessment

For projects in subsectors related to aviation, marine transportation, multi-modal & transit systems, rail, river transportation, and roads.

Water Rapid Screening Assessment

For projects in subsectors related to dams & reservoirs, land use & watershed management, riverine flood protection, wastewater, water supply, and sanitation.

Agriculture In-Depth Screening Assessment

For projects in subsectors related to crops & land management, irrigation & drainage, livestock, rural transport, and storage & processing.

Energy In-Depth Screening Assessment

Health In-Depth Screening Assessment

Transportation In-Depth Screening Assessment

For projects in subsectors related to aviation, marine transportation, multi-modal & transit systems, rail, river transportation, and roads.

Water In-Depth Screening Assessment

For projects in subsectors related to dams & reservoirs, land use & watershed management, riverine flood protection, wastewater, water supply, and sanitation.

National Policy In-Depth Screening Assessment

For institutional strengthening, policy reforms & planning at a national level, sector wide strategies, and multi-sector development policy frameworks.

Several enhancements have been made to the Climate and Disaster Risk Screening tools for Agriculture, Energy, Health and Water projects, including:

Two new screening tools:
- a Rapid Screening Assessment and
- an In-Depth Screening Assessment
Links to new sector specific climate information in the Climate Change Knowledge Portal
Sector screening guidance notes for an end-to-end roadmap of the screening process
Updated complementary resources

The original National, General, Coastal Flood Protection, Roads and Transport tools are still available for relevant projects.

Both the new screening tools and original screening tools use the same Exposure–Impact–Adaptive capacity framework to assess risks.

Targets national plans, sector-wide strategies, and development policy and institutional strengthening and reforms. Sectors covered include non-road transportation (aviation, marine transportation, multi-modal and transit systems, rail, river transportation); community development; education; finance; industry; information and communication technology (ICT); mining and metals; natural resources (biodiversity, fisheries, and forestry); social development; solid waste; urban; and other. test check Coastal Flood Protection Tool test check Roads Tool

National/Policy Level Tool Methodology:

The national/policy level tool is designed to walk users through a series of steps to understand the level of risk posed by climate and other natural hazards at an early stage of planning and design of national or sector-wide strategies, development policy, institutional strengthening and/or reforms. The tool does this by making data on climate change (historic, projected) available in an accessible manner. The tool helps the user connect this information to the broader development context at the sector level. The tool includes an Institutional Readiness Scorecard (IRS), which provides a rapid assessment framework to score current client institutional and adaptive capacity at the national/sector level. There are four distinct, but interrelated, stages that users follow.

First, the user identifies priority sectors required to achieve country goals, which the user will rate for risk in the rest of the tool.
Second, the user gathers information on climate and other hazards in the country and rates the potential impact of the hazards on each priority sector.
Third, the user rates the institutional readiness, which is a measure of the country's ability to respond successfully to the hazards.
Fourth, the user determines overall risk by jointly considering the potential impacts and institutional readiness, along with the larger economic and social context that could influence the level of risk.

For detailed information, click here to download the full methodology document for the national/policy level tool.

Project Level Tool Methodology:

The project tools are designed to walk users through a series of steps to understand the level of risk posed by climate and other natural hazards at an early stage of project design. The tools do this by making data on climate change (historic, projected) available. The tools help users connect this information to project components and allow users to account for non-physical components such as institutional capacity and the larger development context. Through this process they help users arrive at the risk to the outcome/service level intended from the project.

There are four distinct, but interrelated, stages that users follow.

First, the user evaluates the extent to which their project/location will be exposed to each hazard.
Second, the user combines this information with their understanding of the project's physical components to assess potential impact from each hazard.
Third, the user examines how relevant non-physical factors, such as institutional capacity and the larger economic and social context, influence the level of risk posed to the project.
Fourth, based on these considerations, the user rates the overall risk to the project outcome. A PDF of the overall project risk profile is produced.

For detailed information, click here to download the full methodology document of an illustrative example of the approach of a project-level tool, the Roads tool.

Key Terms:

Adaptive capacity: The ability of systems, institutions, humans, and other organisms to adjust to potential damage, to take advantage of opportunities, or to respond to consequences of hazards.¹
Climate hazard: A physical process or event (hydro-meteorological or oceanographic variables or phenomena) that can harm human health, livelihoods, or natural resources. A hazard is not simply the potential for adverse effects.²
Exposure: The presence of people, livelihoods, species or ecosystems, environmental services and resources, infrastructure, or economic, social, or cultural assets in places that could be adversely affected by a hazard.¹
Geophysical hazard: Natural land processes and events with the potential to cause harm to human health, livelihoods, systems, or natural resources. In this tool, "hazard" refers to the physical event itself, not its potential for adverse effects.²
Potential impact: The potential effects of hazards on human or natural assets and systems. These potential effects, which are determined by both exposure and sensitivity, may be beneficial or harmful.
Resilience: The capacity of a social-ecological system to cope with a hazardous event or disturbance, responding or reorganizing in ways that maintain its essential function, identity, and structure, while also maintaining the capacity for adaptation, learning, and transformation.¹
Risk: The potential for consequences where something of human value (including humans themselves) is at stake and where the outcome is uncertain.1 This tool defines climate risk as a combination of hazard exposure, sensitivity to impact, and adaptive capacity. It does not define risk as the product of the probability of hazardous events and the consequences of those events, as is frequently used.
Sensitivity: The degree to which a system, asset, or species may be affected, either adversely or beneficially, when exposed to climate variability or change or geophysical hazards.¹

¹ Definitions adapted from IPCC, Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2014) (http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/)
² N. Brooks, "Vulnerability, Risk and Adaptation: A Conceptual Framework" Working Paper No. 38 (Tyndall Centre, 2003) (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200032746_Vulnerability_Risk_and_Adaptation_A_Conceptual_Framework)

Why did the World Bank develop these screening tools?

The International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's fund for the poorest countries, is one of the largest sources of assistance for the world's 77 poorest countries. As part of the IDA 17 Replenishment of $52 billion in December 2013, IDA Deputies agreed to the following policy commitments: (i) all IDA Country Partnership Frameworks (CPFs) incorporate climate and disaster risk consideration into the analysis of the country's development challenges and priorities and, when agreed with the country, incorporate such considerations into the content of the programs and the results framework; and (ii) to screen all new IDA operations for short- and long-term climate change and disaster risks and, where risks exist, integrate appropriate resilience measures.

The Climate and Disaster Risk Screening Tools have been developed as a direct response to support these two discrete but interlinked IDA 17 policy commitments, which became effective on July 1, 2014.

The tools have broader application beyond the IDA countries and their investments and are being offered as an open resource to all development practitioners.

While these tools are not mandatory (task teams can use other screening tools or approaches as relevant to their sector), these have been widely applied. Specifically, around 500 projects across sectors and regions used the screening tools between July 2014 and December 2016.

Who are the screening tools for?

The tools are designed to be used by development practitioners, including World Bank Staff, who are designing or working on:

National strategies and diagnostics (e.g. poverty reduction strategies, systematic country diagnostics (SCDs), Country Partnership Frameworks (CPFs), and development policy operations (DPOs);
Sector-wide strategies and development policy reforms; or
Project investments in key sectors.

The tools may also be used for awareness raising and for general training and capacity building, in particular for better understanding the relevance of climate and disaster risks in development planning and the design of investments.

What do the tools do?

The tools provide a structured and systematic way to undertake due diligence and flag potential risks at the national/policy level and at the project level (covering seven key project areas). At all of these levels the tools follow a user-friendly step-by-step approach so that users can understand the potential risks to which programs and investments may be vulnerable. It should take about two hours, on average, to apply each of these tools.

Have the tools been updated?

Yes. The Climate and Disaster Risk Screening tools have been updated for four pilot sectors: Agriculture, Water, Health and Energy. These updates include: a) two new screening tools, one Rapid Screening Assessment and In-Depth Screening Assessment; b) links to new sector specific climate information; c) sector screening guidance notes for each of the four sectors; d) updated complementary resources and e) inclusion of gender and migrants/displaced populations considerations.

The original tools are still available for the remaining sectors and for the National and General tool.

What do I need to apply the tools?

The following are required to use the tool:

Project concept: For the project-level tools, the user should have some initial understanding of the project components and location.

Subject matter expertise: The users of the tool are not expected to have specialized knowledge of climate change and disasters. However the tools rely on an understanding of the country or project context as well as professional expertise, knowledge, and judgment to evaluate the impacts and risks of climate change and disasters. Users will be provided with relevant climate and disaster information through the World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP).

Consultations: Where needed, we recommend that users engage in a consultative process with relevant sector and country specialists.

Time: Time requirements will vary depending on the user's knowledge and consultations. On average, the tool is estimated to take roughly two hours.

Which tool should I use?

The national/policy level tool targets national plans, sector-wide strategies, development policy, and institutional strengthening and reforms.

The project level tools target a range of sectors. Once inside of the tool, you will be prompted to select the relevant subsectors that apply to your project.

Select the tool that your project predominantly covers. Each investment should require the application of no more than one tool. If your project is multisectoral, select the tool that covers the predominant work of your project. If you cannot find your project's subsector within a one of the specific project level tools, use the General Tool, which covers a range of sectors. You will be invited to select the relevant sector once you commence using the General tool.

How can I learn more about the tools without actually using them?

You can browse the tools and see sample reports within them to help you get started.

To browse the tools, please log in using the information below. The demo profile cannot be used for actual assessment of projects, as it will not save your inputs.

Login: Demo

Password: Demo1

You can also view a sample report of the tools to see what you can get out of them. The tools generate a PDF report, which includes summary matrices of the exposure, impacts, and risks to key selected priority sectors/project components for current and future (2050) conditions. The output highlights some of the key drivers underlying climate and disaster risks. The national/policy level tool also provides an overview of some of the institutional needs and gaps with respect to climate and disaster risk management based on an institutional readiness score.

Click on a tool below to view a sample report.

National/Policy Level Tool
Project-level tools
- Agriculture
- Coastal Flood Protection
- Energy
- Health
- Roads
- Water
- General

Is there a way to get trained in using the tools?

What other tools are available for climate and disaster risk assessment?

There are many tools available within and outside of the World Bank that can support the climate and disaster risk screening process. Click here to learn about the types of tools that can complement the World Bank's Climate and Disaster Risk Screening Tools.

What should I do after screening?

Project teams should articulate climate and disaster risk vulnerabilities wherever relevant in project documents. Project teams can also use screening results to inform further consultations and dialogue and help determine the need for further studies in the course of project design or planning.

Do I have to create a log in account?

If you are using the external site http://climatescreeningtools.worldbank.org/, then yes, to begin to apply the tools,

you must register and create your own user name and password

, which is your user information. You will not be required to provide any other personal information and indeed you are not encouraged to do so. You are encouraged, however, not to add any sensitive information to the Tool, since there is no absolute guarantee of security on any website.

Who else will have access to my account information?

Your application information and other information submitted will only be accessible to you and the World Bank as Administrator of the account; and the World Bank will comply with the provisions of the World Bank Data Policy with respect to your user information. Your user information, but not the content provided, may be used by the World Bank to generate statistics of usage and coverage of the screening tools. User information will not be disclosed by the World Bank to third parties, nor will it be used for any purpose other than in connection with the screening tools.

What are the tool's privacy settings?

To use the tools you will need to register and create your own user name and password which will protect the information you enter. All of the application information you enter into the tools will be password protected. You will not be required to enter any personal or sensitive information. Iindeed, you are encouraged not to do so, since there is no absolute guarantee of security on any website. Your application information and other information submitted will only be accessible to you and the World Bank as Administrator of the account; and the World Bank will comply with the provisions of the World Bank Data Policy with respect to your user information. Your user information, but not the content provided, may be used by the World Bank to generate statistics of usage and coverage of the screening tools. User information will not be disclosed by the World Bank to third parties, nor will it be used for any purpose other than in connection with the screening tools.The PDF inputs will not be stored beyond 30 days.

What should I do if have trouble using or completing a tool?

How should the tools be referenced?

The tools should be referenced as follows:

Disclaimer

User Information and Use of Tools and Linked Resources: To begin to apply the tool, you must register and create your own user name and password , which is your "User Information". No other personal information is collected. All of the project information entered into the tool will be password protected. You are encouraged not to add any sensitive information to the Tool, since there is no absolute guarantee of security on any website. User and Project Information submitted will only be accessible to you and the World Bank as Administrator of the account. The World Bank will comply with the provisions of the World Bank Privacy Policy with respect to your User Information. The Word Bank may use your User Information, but not project information, to generate statistics of usage and coverage of the screening tools. User information will not be disclosed by the World Bank to third parties, nor will it be used for any purpose other than in connection with the screening tools,and in accordance of the World Bank Data and Privacy Policy.

You understand and agree that the use of the screening tools website is at your own sole risk. The World Bank provides the tools, and linked data resources from the Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP), "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE." Under no circumstances shall the World Bank, any other member of the World Bank Group, or any other content provider, be liable to you for any loss, damage, liability or expense incurred or suffered which is claimed to result from use of or in connection with any activity in relation to the Screening Tools or the CCKP or as a result of the transmission or disclosure of confidential or partially disclosed data or information (including, without limitation, anything – including any tools made available through the tools or the CCKP – that may personally identify you or your location) through the access to or use of the screening tools or otherwise provided thereby, including without limitation, any fault, error, omission, interruption or delay with respect thereto as well of any loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, unauthorized distribution, modification or destruction of content or information provided or transmitted by you, or by forging of your e-mail or user information. You can Browse the tool to get familiar, or for general awareness.

Output Reports: The output reports of the World Bank's Climate and Disaster Risk Screening Tools will be generated and delivered in a .pdf format(see sample reports).These reports are yours to keep and use as you wish. The World Bank will not retain a copy of the reports, so please save it as necessary. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in the reports are those of the individual who applied the tool and should be in no way attributed to the World Bank, to its affiliated institutions, to the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent. The information, interpretations and conclusions presented in the output reports are for informational purposes only and shall not be used or relied on by the user, including defining or declaring a climate disaster in any formal way. Nor shall the tool or the output reports be construed as providing investment advice. Although the World Bank makes reasonable efforts to ensure all the information presented in the tool and the CCKP is correct, its accuracy and integrity cannot be guaranteed. Use of this tool is at the user`s own risk and under no circumstances shall the World Bank be liable for any loss, damage, liability or expense incurred or suffered which is claimed to result from the use of this tool and any output reports resulting from use of the tool. This tool and the data it contains do not imply any opinion, judgment or endorsement on the part of the World Bank, and the findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed in the data are those of various contributors.

Acknowledgements

The World Bank Climate and Disaster Risk Screening Tools are a result of contributions from a wide range of sector and thematic specialists across the World Bank Group. We thank everyone who contributed to the design, approach, content, as well as the testing and validation at various stages of the tool development.

The Climate and Disaster Risk Screening Tools were developed by the World Bank Group's Climate Change Vice-Presidency Unit. The Bank team, led by Kanta Kumari Rigaud, and a core team comprised of Ana Elisa Bucher, Raffaello Cervigni, Nathan Engle, Varuna Somaweera, Tobias Baedeker, Kazi Ahmed, Catherine Nakalembe, and Meerim Shakirova worked under the supervision of Jane Ebinger and Geeta Sethi. Advice on disaster risk component and datasets was provided by Sofia Bettencourt and Alanna Simpson. Rosina Bierbaum provided strategic and technical advice throughout the project. We would like to thank Maarten Van Aalst and all of the members of the Technical Advisory Team of the Climate Change Knowledge Portal, who guided the improvement of climate data access and visualization within the Portal.

Management oversight was provided by Rachel Kyte, James Close, Mary Barton Dock, Fionna Douglas, Marianne Fay and Karin Kemper. The team also received guidance from Sector Board management, including Jose Luis Irigoyen and Juergen Voegele. Robert Bisset, Bianca Adam, Stacy Morford, Annika Ostman, and Venkat Gopalakrishnan supported communication and outreach efforts to partners and the media. Samrawit Beyene, Patricia Braxton, Perpetual Boateng and Maria Cristina Sy provided valuable support to the team.

We acknowledge with gratitude ICF International and REI Systems for their contributions towards the development of the Climate and Disaster Risk Screening tools. The design of the tools benefited greatly from inputs from World Bank Group colleagues, including Anjali Acharya, Mitsuyoshi Asada, Pierre Audinet, Julie Babinar, John Baffes, George Banjo, Laura Bonzanigo, Benoit Bosquet, Henrike Brecht, Julia Bucknall, Mirianna Budimir, Ashley Camhi, Jack Campbell, Jean-Christophe Carret, Vikas Choudhary, Louis Croneberg, Christophe Crepin, Richard Damania, Andreas Dietrich Kopp, Hari Bansi Dulal, Irina Dvorak, Milen Dyoulerov, Svetlana Edmeades, Asif Faiz, Erick Fernandes, Armin Fidler, Marc Forni, Luis Garcia, Elisabeth Goller, Roger Gorham, Stephane Hallegate, Stephen Alan Hammer, Ellen Hamilton, Nagaraja Harshdeep Rao, Valerie Hickey, Astrid Hillers, Ross Hughes, Habiba Gitay, Yoshiyuki Imamura, Gabrielle Izzi, Michael Jacobsen, Robert Jauncey, Pravin Karki, Yoonhee Kim, Jolanta Kryspin-Watson, Camilla Israel Lema, Vanessa Lopes, Dahlia Lotayef, Catherine Lynch, Marcelino Madrigal, Marilia Magalhaes, Pier Mantovani, Muthukumara S. Mani, Montserrat Meiro-Lorenzo, Jean Baptiste Migraine, Carolina Monsalve, Laurent Msellati, Stephen Muzira, Maria Margareta Nunez, Samuel Oguah, Elisa Portale, Christopher Pusch, Jumana Qamruddin, Tamer Samah Rabie, Kulwinder Rao, Liana Razafindrazay, Robert Reid, Markus Repnik, Diego Rodriguez, Giovanni Ruta, Daniel Mira Salama, Artessa Saldivar-Sali, Maria Sarraf, Kavita Sethi, Jitendra Shah, Tara Shirvani, Iain Shuker, Vladimir Stenek, Michael Vaislic, Sonam Sultanali Velani, Milen Vollen, Pieter Waalewijn, Xiaoping Wang, Monika Weber-Fahr, Samuel Wedderburn, Marcus Wijnen, Marcus Wishart, and Carmen Yee.

We would like to thank dozens of other World Bank staff who participated in training sessions for their useful feedback and suggestions. We are also grateful to numerous University of Michigan graduate students for their valuable contributions at key stages of this work.

Finally, the tools benefited from contributions of other Multilateral Development Banks and Bilateral partners through the two workshops on Climate Screening and Risk Management convened by the World Bank and the German Government in March and November 2014.

The Help Desk can provide support in the following areas:

IT assistance: Support with IT problems and glitches in the tools.
Feedback: We welcome your feedback on the tool.

To reach the Help Desk contact: climatescreeninghelpdesk@worldbankgroup.org