The CARE Climate Resilience Marker
The Climate Resilience Marker is CARE’s innovative tool designed to ensure that our projects around the world effectively address the growing impacts of climate change. It’s a framework that helps our teams build strong, climate-smart projects from the ground up, preparing communities to better withstand climate-induced shocks and stresses like droughts, floods, and extreme weather events.
This tool is a strategic evolution of our previous resilience framework, with a specific focus on climate and environmental risks. By targeting these core hazards, the marker helps us address the root causes of vulnerability, strengthening a community’s capacity to cope with risks and ultimately building its overall resilience.
The Climate Resilience Marker Guidance Note
This provides a theoretical background on climate resilience, the marker, and the scoring.
How does the Climate Resilience Marker work?
The Climate Resilience Marker is integrated at every stage of a project, from its initial design to its final review, serving several key purposes:
- Project Design: The marker is used during the proposal phase to ensure that all new projects are designed with climate risks in mind. This helps build robust solutions that are more likely to succeed and have a lasting impact.
- Learning and Adaptation: The marker is a vital tool for reflection. By using it during project reviews and evaluations, our teams can identify areas for improvement and make necessary adjustments to enhance a project’s climate resilience.
- Accountability and Impact: The marker also helps track our progress by enabling CARE to collect and analyze data on the level of climate resilience integration across our entire portfolio, allowing us to measure and demonstrate our collective impact.
The Climate Resilience Marker Vetting Form
This is used for scoring programs and projects.
Note on the tool:
The CARE Climate Resilience Marker (CRM) is the updated successor to the original Resilience Marker. While the previous version laid the foundation for integrating resilience into our programming, this version has been specifically enhanced to address the accelerating urgency of climate and environmental risks. For historical reference or to view earlier resilience integration models, you can still access the original Resilience Marker here.