Policy Domain 

Case Study P3b - International development assistance will focus on the mainstreaming of climate change in international development assistance. It will aim to provide strategic options to the EU and its member countries for mainstreaming and restructuring development assistance, such that it promotes climate mitigation and adaptation in ways that are acceptable to the donor and recipient communities. 

The overarching objective of this Case Study is to provide strategic options to the EU and its member countries for mainstreaming and restructuring development assistance, such that it promotes climate mitigation and adaptation in ways that are acceptable to the donor and recipient communities. The strategic options will be tested within ADAM’s Policy Appraisal Framework, Work Package P1.

Meeting this objective will require insights on the role of developing countries in the climate regime, as well as on the current effectiveness of mainstreaming development assistance. Three sub-goals of this Case Study are thus:

    * To provide insights on the broad issue of engaging developing countries into the climate-change mitigation/adaptation regime (this objective will be carried out in close collaboration with Work Package P3a Case Study on Post-2012 negotiations);

    * To survey current EU practices in mainstreaming climate-change goals into development assistance;

    * To assess the desirability and feasibility of mainstreaming EU development assistance to take account of climate goals in light of development assistance experience.