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The UN Climate, Peace and Security Toolbox for practitioners was developed by the CSM with the support of partners from across and beyond the UN system. The toolbox has been designed to help practitioners:

• Conduct integrated analysis of compound climate-related peace and security risks, applying a gender and social inclusion lens;
• Apply climate-smart and conflict-sensitive analytical tools and methods for data collection & analysis;
• Assess possible entry points for inclusive peacebuilding, conflict prevention and climate adaptation;
• Use and combine different types of qualitative and quantitative data for assessment.

The Toolbox comprises four main guidance documents, available in English, Spanish and French (see the top right of the page to change the language):

• The Briefing Note provides a brief overview of the interlinkages between climate change, ecosystems and biodiversity loss, and peace and security, including illustrative examples.
• The Conceptual Approach outlines a common understanding of and approach to the assessment of climate-related peace and security risks in the UN system.
• The Conflict Analysis Checklist lists guiding questions for analysts to ensure climate change effects are taken into consideration during conflict analyses.
• the Data Sources document contains useful data sources to ensure assessments are informed by robust quantitative data.

This brochure provides an overview of FAO’s work in forced displacement contexts. The causes and consequences of forced displacement in rural areas interlink with longstanding vulnerabilities and recent/emerging crises. Increasing levels of violence and conflict, food insecurity and fragile agricultural livelihoods, socio-economic inequalities and the effects of climate change all compound forced displacement crises. To achieve durable solutions, we must therefore act on multiple fronts simultaneously.

In 2018 FAO approved its Corporate Framework to Support Sustainable Peace in the Context of Agenda 2030, committing FAO to a more deliberate and transformative impact on sustaining peace, within the scope of its mandate. The foundational element for FAO supported interventions to - at a minimum - do no harm, or to identify where they may contribute to sustaining peace, is to understand contextual dynamics and how they could interact with a proposed intervention. This is essentially what conflict-sensitive programming means. The FAO Programme Clinic Facilitation Guide includes climate variability and climate adaptation strategies as peace and conflict drivers.

The Guide to Context Analysis is an accessible and practical learning tool for non-conflict specialists in FAO decentralised offices to document and institutionalise their knowledge of the local context, and thus inform conflict-sensitive design of FAO interventions. The Guide can be read both a standalone instructional aid on context analysis, as well as an essential precursor to FAO’s Programme Clinic approach to design conflict-sensitive interventions (comprising both a facilitators’ and participants’ guides).