The guidance Tailor made training courses on climate change adaptation – a cookbook for different formats and target groups was developed by the Inventory of Methods for Adaptation to Climate Change (IMACC) project, a global project by GIZ funded through the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). The project aims at user-driven application and advancement of existing tools and methods for adaptation, developing capacities for adaptation action and supporting South-to-South exchange, particularly among its seven partner countries: Grenada, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines, Tunisia and South Africa. IMACC operates the platform AdaptationCommunity.net that provides introduction to key topics, examples of adaptation experiences as well as webinar recordings and an exchange forum.

The training course described in this publication and associated materials are based on an OECD Policy Guidance, Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation, published in May 2009. They were generously funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and developed by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and its Climate Protection Programme for Developing Countries in coordination with OECD and a broad range of reviewers from development agencies, NGOs, and research institutions from around the world. The additional modules on understanding climate science, finding climate information, dealing with uncertainty were developed by IMACC, while the new modules on monitoring and evaluation of adaptation were designed by IMACC in cooperation with the Climate Protection Programme for Developing Countries and the BMZ-funded project M & E Adapt. The training material on Ecosystem- based Adaptation was developed by the BMZ-funded programmes Implementing the Biodiversity Convention and Climate Protection.

The authors gratefully acknowledge the valuable feedback to this publication contributed by reviewers. The contributions made by fellow trainers and commissioners as well as the participants of the discussion series ‘Mainstreaming adaptation’ on AdaptationCommunity.net were very helpful in shaping the content effectively.