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The OECD Green Growth Strategy, launched in May 2011, provides concrete recommendations and measurement tools to support countries' efforts to achieve economic growth and development, while at the same time ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the ecosystem services on which our well-being relies. The strategy proposes a flexible policy framework that can be tailored to different country circumstances and stages of development. OECD Green Growth Papers should not be reported as representing the official views of the OECD or of its member countries. The opinions expressed and arguments employed are those of the author(s). OECD Green Growth Papers aim to describe preliminary results or research in progress by the author(s) and are published to stimulate discussion on specific topics and obtain feedback from interested audiences. They complement the OECD Green Growth Studies series, which aims to provide in-depth reviews of the green growth issues faced by different sectors. This paper has been authorised for publication by Jon Lomøy, Director, Development Cooperation Directorate. The authors would like to acknowledge Stephanie Ockenden and Jan Corfee-Morlot from the OECD Development Cooperation Directorate Secretariat and Takayoshi Kato from the OECD Environment Directorate Secretariat for their careful review. Helpful comments and illustrative examples were also provided by members of the Network on Environment and Development Cooperation (ENVIRONET) and participants to the 16th ENVIRONET meeting, February 2014 in Paris. Helpful comments were also received from the David Kaluba, Government of Zambia Comments on Green Growth Papers are welcomed, and may be sent to:

OECD Development Co-operation Working PapersOECD Working Papers should not be reported as representing the official views of the OECD or of its member countries. The opinions expressed and arguments employed are those of the authors.Working Papers describe preliminary results or research in progress by the author(s) and are published to stimulate discussion on a broad range of issues on which the OECD works. Comments on the present Working Paper are welcomed and may be sent to juan.casadoasensio@oecd.org -the Development Cooperation Directorate, OECD, 2 rue André-Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France.This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area.You can copy, download or print OECD content for your own use, and you can include excerpts from OECD publications, databases and multimedia products in your own documents, presentations, blogs, websites and teaching materials, provided that suitable acknowledgement of OECD as source and copyright owner is given. All requests for public or commercial use and translation rights should be submitted to rights@oecd.org. COPYRIGHT © OECD 2016 1 MAINSTREAMING ADAPTATION IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING Mainstreaming Adaptation in National Development PlanningJuan Casado-Asensio, Anna Drutschinin, Jan Corfee-Morlot, and Gisela Campillo Abstract:This Working Paper explores progress in the integration or mainstreaming of adaptation and related objectives into national development planning. It first provides an overview of the international mechanisms, including finance, to support the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation into development planning and policies in developing countries. Through a review of relevant planning documents in fifteen developing countries, it then examines key features in adaptation planning and mainstreaming of adaptation into development planning. These countries were because they have been amongst the highest recipients of adaptation-related bilateral development finance. The research provides a snapshot of current practice. Despite heightened international efforts to support developing countries, evidence of mainstreaming adaptation was only found in a few of the countries and in a few of the sectors studied here. It also found that where mainstreaming is occurring, linkages exist with other policy objectives including poverty reduction, promoting biodiversity and ecosystems, and urban and rural development. The findings may be a useful starting point to guide policy-relevant research, such as to what extent mainstreaming may be occurring on the ground (or not) and how well this progress is reflected in planning documents, as well as how to improve the effectiveness of development co-operation targeting adaptation. The paper may also help inform international efforts under the UNFCCC that are designed to support developing countries to mainstream adaptation priorities int...