'Proofing' policies involves addressing relevant risks early in the policy formulation process, to identify any obvious effects on other sectors or objectives. The practice of proofing policies is well-established in other sectors, such as health, and rural development (Urwin and Jordan 2008: 188).
Develop policies that ensure goals are not negatively affected due to climate change.
Climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability are a result of many actors interacting and making many interrelated decisions.
There is a direct predictable relationship between policies and outcomes.
1. Identify relevant institutions and actors 2. Document analysis and interviews with actors on policy development 3. Analyse impacts of climate change on policy goals 4. Develop improved policies
Improved policies in the context of climate risks.
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Dasgupta and Baschieri (2010) analyse poverty reduction strategies and climate impacts on the rural poor in Ghana. They find that rural poverty reduction strategies do not account for climate impacts, and focus on money-metric indicators of poverty. They find that mainstreaming climate change into development strategies, which would mean including broader indicators of poverty, is necessary to protect poverty reduction goals.
This section is based on the UNEP PROVIA guidance document | 
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| 1. | You want to identify adaptation options. | |
| 2. | Your focus is on public actors and on collective actions. | |
| 3. | There is no simple coordination solution. | |
| 4. | It is not sufficient to describe actors and institutions. | |
| 5. | Outcomes of institutional arrangements can be predicted. | |
| 6. | Policy design and mainstreaming have been addressed. | |
| 7. | Climate risks for the relevant policy are known. |
