Development planners and practitioners need tools like the Community Driven Vulnerability Evaluation - Programme Designer. Conducting an analysis with CoDriVE-Programme Designer can help planners and their partners understand how a community may be vulnerable to climate change and why. With this knowledge and information,interventions may be adjusted to safeguard against climate change impacts, and to avoid development patterns that may make communities more vulnerable at a later date. 
  

The 2011 droughts in the horn of Africa deprived countless communities of water and food security. Two years later, devastating floods in Germany caused widespread urban destruction. These events showcase the early signs of dangerous climate change, which is already threatening the livelihoods, health, and well-being of millions, especially the poor and vulnerable who lack the financial, technical, human, and institutional resources to adapt to these changes.