Ensuring that the ongoing projects and their outputs are effectively utilised and embedded into decision making will be the critical success factor in building the capacity and resilience of the Region. Mapping of organisational decision making processes will assist in identifying touch points where climate adaptation could be incorporated into a range of aspects of the organisation including development and review of strategic and operational documents, budgeting, emergency management planning and the systems and tools used by decision makers in decision making processes.

Embedding climate adaptation into an organisation as early as possible will be rewarded by greater depth of integration and take-up by internal stakeholders in their decision making processes.

Further considerations for embedding climate adaptation into decision-making include: