CRIDA Training Programme

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.