the chapter argues for the need to sharpen the focus of these assessments in several ways targeting the importance of bringing inequalities to the fore it is also argued that engaging stakeholders policymakers experts and researchers vulnerable groups and local communities in the design of policy scenarios and in the discussion of policy options is critical to strengthening the political process through which policy decisions are made bringing forth the evidence provided by integrated climate impact assessments with full transparency regarding both the use of data and the assumptions built into the modelling tools that facilitate those assessments will critically improve the knowledge base policy options and political processes in countries seeking to build climate change resilience as an integral part of sustainable development policies in addition chapter iii focuses on areas where capacities need to be strengthened so that developing countries can expand the construction and use of assessments