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How to Use Ori

Ori is designed to serve a range of users working on adaptation and resilience finance. Select the user type that best matches your role to understand how Ori can support your work.

01

Investor / Financial Institution

For financial institutions and investment actors evaluating whether a financing activity or investment can reasonably be framed as adaptation- and resilience-aligned. Includes commercial banks, development finance institutions, asset managers, private investors, lenders, underwriters, credit teams, or investment committees seeking to understand eligibility, substantial contribution, and potential maladaptation risk.

Example Questions

  • How can a financial institution determine whether a proposed investment is adaptation- and resilience-aligned?
  • What are common maladaptation risks that investors should screen for before financing a project?
02

Issuer / Borrower

For entities seeking to raise, structure, or present financing linked to adaptation and resilience objectives. Includes corporates, project sponsors, municipalities, utilities, public agencies, infrastructure developers, NGOs, or other borrowers and issuers developing use-of-proceeds frameworks, project selection approaches, and reporting structures.

Example Questions

  • What should an adaptation and resilience financing framework include?
  • What information should an issuer provide to explain how proceeds will support climate resilience outcomes?
03

Program Designer / Facility Designer

For people shaping the design of programs, facilities, and financing mechanisms that aim to support adaptation and resilience. Includes strategy teams, technical advisors, consultants, facility designers, program architects, innovation teams, and fund designers working to define eligible activities and embed resilience objectives into design.

Example Questions

  • What is the difference between adapted investments and enabling investments?
  • How can a financing facility be designed around eligible adaptation and resilience activities?
04

Program Manager / Implementer

For users responsible for applying the guidance in day-to-day project or program operations. Includes program managers, project coordinators, implementation teams, portfolio managers, grant managers, delivery partners, or operations staff who need to screen activities, document rationale, and apply the framework consistently.

Example Questions

  • What information should be documented to show that a project is eligible for adaptation and resilience finance?
  • How can implementation teams apply adaptation and resilience criteria consistently across a portfolio?
05

M&E / Impact Specialist

For users focused on evidence, indicators, learning, and reporting. Includes monitoring and evaluation specialists, impact teams, ESG reporting staff, results-measurement advisors, data analysts, and verification partners who need to understand how adaptation and resilience outcomes can be measured and documented.

Example Questions

  • How should adaptation and resilience outcomes be measured and reported?
  • What types of indicators can demonstrate that an investment has improved climate resilience?
06

Policy / Government / Donor

For public and institutional actors interested in broader enabling conditions for adaptation and resilience finance. Includes ministries, regulators, central banks, bilateral and multilateral donors, foundations, and public policy teams seeking to align financing approaches with national priorities.

Example Questions

  • How can governments and donors create enabling conditions for private investment in adaptation and resilience?
  • What role do national or local adaptation strategies play in determining whether an investment is eligible?
07

Students and Early-Career Professionals

Use Ori to understand core concepts in adaptation and resilience finance, compare investment frameworks, and explore how resilience projects are classified, measured, and financed.

Example Questions

  • What is adaptation and resilience finance, and how is it different from general climate finance?
  • How can I tell whether a project makes a substantial contribution to climate resilience?

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