
Building Better Resilience: Note on Avoiding Maladaptation

This document serves as guidance to enhance the efficiency of climate resilience and adaptation-related activities and avoid undesired outcomes. It introduces the concept, dimensions, and types of maladaptation; explores maladaptation drivers and ways to mitigate them; presents a framework to prevent maladaptation; and provides a checklist with potential guiding questions for project teams.
Project teams and environmental and social specialists can leverage this guidance to assess and improve the design and implementation of climate-related projects, reducing associated social and environmental risks.
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