[health-vn] CRiSTAL Website Launched by IISD [integrating climate change adaptation into development interventions]

[Vern Weitzel]

CRiSTAL Website Launched by IISD

http://www.cristaltool.org

More and more organizations and governments across the world are realizing the 
importance of integrating climate change adaptation into their development 
interventions. This has led to a growing worldwide interest in CRiSTAL 
(Community-based Risk Screening Tool – Adaptation and Livelihoods), which is a 
screening tool designed to help project designers and managers integrate risk 
reduction and climate change adaptation into community-level projects.

CRiSTAL was developed by the International Institute for Sustainable Development 
(IISD), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Stockholm 
Environment Institute - United States (SEI-US) and the Swiss Foundation for 
Development and International Cooperation (Intercooperation).

Using feedbacks and recommendations from CRiSTAL users, IISD is improving the 
tool on a regular basis. It is now offered in various formats (Excel and hard 
copy) and multiple languages (English, French, and soon Spanish).

Training workshops on CRiSTAL are being conducted in different regions around 
the world. Two training of trainers workshops were organized by IISD in 
sub-Saharan Africa (Mozambique and Ghana) in 2007 and another one was conducted 
in Francophone Africa (Niger) in 2008. IISD is also partnering with different 
organizations to adapt CRiSTAL to their specific needs, organize staff training 
workshops, explore synergies with other adaptation tools, and support the 
application of CRiSTAL in development projects across the world.

As a result of this growing interest for CRiSTAL, and with financial support 
from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), IISD is now 
launching the CRiSTAL website: www.cristaltool.org.

For more information on CRiSTAL, please contact Anne Hammill (ahammill at iisd.org) 
or Béatrice Riché (briche at iisd.org).