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GUIDELINE ON MAINSTREAMING CLIMATE RESPONSIVENESS AND RESILIENCE INTO URBAN PLANNING 13GUIDELINE ON MAINSTREAMING CLIMATE RESPONSIVENESS AND RESILIENCE INTO URBAN PLANNING 13Figure 5: An example of a network map that indicates local, regional, national, and global partners (Source: https://thrivingresilience.org/trcc-overview-kumu-map-guide/)4.4.Establish an evidence base of climate change risks, adaptation opportunities, and prioritiesInformation and data around climate change, its impacts, and possible responses are essential to inform and guide planning and decision-making. Reliable and trusted evidence needs to be available in a form that is relevant to planning and that offer sufficient detail at the right spatial and temporal scale. A clear understanding of the problem, and the availability of common sets of data (data covering various dimensions of development that is used in all long-term strategic planning across the municipality), provide a basis for constructive and transversal engagement. Assessing vulnerability, the likelihood of hazards to occur, and the exposure to these hazards (i.e., climate risk and climate risk zones), as well as developing climate response and adaptation actions, is an interdisciplinary exercise by technical people, complemented by research partners, networks, and external consultants, if necessary. Drawing from network partners and stakeholders across sectors, allows for the identification of synergies, co-benefits, and tradeoffs across adaptation and mitigation efforts. See Section 5 and Box 7 for additional information on spatialising climate risk. Useful resources such as the DFFE%u2019s National Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Framework (See Box 10), and the CSIR%u2019s GreenBook (See Box 11) provide useful frameworks and information to develop climate risk and vulnerability profiles with data and maps, and to identify appropriate response measures. The DDM SpatialisationGuidelines offer guidance on the spatialisation of development priorities, programmes, and budgets (CoGTA, 2023), proving an essential foundation of good planning practices for effective mainstreaming of CR&R.Box 7: The planning-value of spatialised climate risk informationAn implicit aim of climate change response, and in particular adaptation, is to reduce an area%u2019s, or system%u2019s, vulnerability, and exposure to climate-related hazards. However, insufficient knowledge on the state of the system and the impact climate change may have in disturbing the system, will make it difficult to facilitate effective decision making dThfidiikdliifidd