Practical guidelines for building sustainable, gender-responsive digital climate advisory service business cases

These Guidelines offer a practical roadmap for developing Digital Climate Advisory Services (DCAS) that are sustainable, financially viable, and inclusive. They are designed to help governments, partners, and implementing agencies move from concept to action with clarity, structure, and confidence. At their core, the Guidelines recognize that effective DCAS is not only about technology. It is about understanding who needs climate information, how they access it, what barriers they face, and how institutions can work together to deliver services reliably and at scale. The framework walks decision-makers through stakeholder and user analysis, financial assessment, policy and regulatory choices, technical design options, governance arrangements, risk management, and monitoring systems.