The National Climate Change Policy was developed in 2012 and is intended to be a reference framework for the integration of climate change in all sectors of socio-economic life in the country. The Government's vision in the fight against climate change is as follows: “A State that promotes development that is resilient to the harmful effects of climate change.”

This strategy is intended to operationalize this National Climate Change Policy. It provides a solution to the constraints of coordinating interventions for mitigation/adaptation to climate change by proposing an institutional framework as well as a strategy for mobilizing adequate funding to ensure the implementation of the proposed programs and therefore the long-term adaptation of Burundi to the harmful effects of climate change.