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GUIDELINE ON MAINSTREAMING CLIMATE RESPONSIVENESS AND RESILIENCE INTO URBAN PLANNING 1GUIDELINE ON MAINSTREAMING CLIMATE RESPONSIVENESS AND RESILIENCE INTO URBAN PLANNING 1About this guideSeveral government stakeholders were consulted and included in the process of scoping and developing the Guideline on Mainstreaming Climate Responsiveness and Resilience into Urban Planning (the Guideline). The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment (DFFE), the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), and the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD), the South African LocalGovernment Association (SALGA), and the South African Cities Network (SACN), together with National Treasury%u2019s Cities Support Programme and the metropolitan municipalities, were key stakeholders and contributors in the process.This Guideline provides process-related guidance and recommendations on how to go about integrating climate responsiveness and resilience (CR&R) into planning. The aims of this Guideline are to provide guidance to all municipalities:1. To integrate CR&R priorities into strategic planning processes and instruments,2. To integrate CR&R into spatial targeting and prioritisation, particularly through the identification of climate risk zones, and3. To be able to assess and report on CR&R mainstreaming progress and outcomes.The intended users of this Guideline include those working in local government1 and involved in long-term planning, term-of-office planning, budgeting, and reporting, particularly in those municipalities that include national urban nodes and regional development anchors, as identified in the National Spatial Development Framework (2022). Figure 1: Outline of Guideline illustrating how each of the Sections build on one another (solid arrows), and how Sections relate back to previous Sections (dashed arrows).1 Including metropolitan municipalities, intermediate city municipalities, local municipalities, and district municipalities. Also see definition of %u2018urban planning%u2019