designing integrated and coherent policies will strengthen the resilience to climate hazards of the most vulnerable not only by addressing issues crucial to their livelihoods but also by taking advantage of potential cobenefits while avoiding unintended consequences and maladaptation the success of interventions aimed at building resilience depends on the participation of all stakeholders especially stakeholders representing those groups a broader participation can help policymakers identify development objectives and assess how to achieve them through building synergies and addressing the underlying causes of vulnerability policymakers must fully embed uncertainty into their longterm plans using iterative and adaptive processes this requires a more flexible policy process capable of incorporating the new information and emerging knowledge needed to scope assess implement and monitor policy interventions integration implies vastly different policyframeworks policies institutions and capacities