This Technical Brief focuses on appraising and prioritising options for climate resilience with a view to informing water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programme and project design. <br> This Technical Brief:<br> - provides a simple scorecard/checklist approach to use as a starting point for appraising and prioritising options, and as an awareness-raising activity - covers all aspects of WASH<br> - has a predominantly rural focus, to align with the rest of the Strategic Framework and Technical Briefs<br> - focuses on current and near future options over the next 15–20 years, which fits in with WASH programming timescales and development<br> - includes WASH examples to show how the approach can be applied.