The assessment of the vulnerability and adaptation of a socio-economic system thus makes sense insofar as it makes it possible to:

• Identify the importance and location of threats in the short and long term,
• Responding to the impacts of natural disasters and climate change,
• Facilitate early warning in the face of natural disasters and adaptation to climate change,
• Understand underlying vulnerability and coping capacities,
• Help identify and classify current and potential adaptation needs,
• Guide and support appropriate interventions.

The objective of the sectoral vulnerability and adaptation studies of socio-economic sectors was to analyze the vulnerability of these sectors to climate variability in the past and to assess their vulnerability to future climate change, to propose a national adaptation strategy including adaptation measures as well as concrete projects to deal with them and to define the modalities of integrating this strategy in the context of sustainable socio-economic development and preservation. of the environmental, social and economic balance in the country.