Most recent climate projections indicate a significant increase in climate change-related losses and damages, posing a growing risk to the sustainable development of least developed countries. Against this background, the GIZ is implementating the global programme “Risk Assessment and Management for Adaptation to Climate Change”. The programme aims at generating practical guidelines and recommendations on climate risk assessment and effective climate risk management. Within this framework, UNIQUE was contracted to conduct an in-depth climate risk assessment of potential economic and non-ecnomic lossess and damages in selected sub-basins of the Lake Rukwa Basin in Tanzania.

• Identification of regional and thematic focus areas based on a participatory process.
• Development of a context-specific methodology for climate risk assessment.
• In-depth assessment of climate change-related economic and non-economic losses and damages.
• Identification and prioritization of potential adaptation and risk management options.
• Capacity building of local institutions in conducting climate risk assessment.