This Handbook provides guidance for designing and implementing technical assistance on macroeconomic modelling to support climate resilient economic development in partner countries. It introduces macroeconomic modelling as an instrument to assess the economy-wide impacts of climate hazards, adaptation, and mitigation measures. The Handbook demonstrates how the results can inform key planning documents such as national adaptation plans (NAPs), nationally determined contributions (NDCs), (low emission) long-term strategies and other national development plans. The recommendations reflect learnings from two projects implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Algeria, Georgia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nigeria, Uganda and Vietnam.

This Handbook provides a detailed description of the macro-econometric (dynamic) input-output e3.kz (“energy-economy-emissions”) model in Kazakhstan. It serves as a manual for model builders and model users, and aims to support the active work with the e3.kz model. The model was developed as part of a Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) global project in Kazakhstan through The Institute of Economic Structures Research (GWS) and in cooperation with the Economic Research Institute (ERI).