Asia

Region: Asia

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Gender Equity and Social Inclusion: Priority action area

The GESI priority area focuses on empowering those most affected by climate change, including women, girls, youth, Indigenous communities, people living with disabilities (PLWD), and other disadvantaged groups.

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10th July 2025
Challenges of climate change adaptation: Insights from vulnerability assessments of Dhulikhel and Karjanha Municipalities in Nepal The following blog, by Manju Adhikari and Rahul Singh of CDKN Asia, highlights Nepal’s significant vulnerability to climate change.Vulnerability assessments highlight that impact is disproportionately felt by those facing marginalisation. As a result, localised adaptation plans need to address both climate hazards and the needs of marginalised groups.
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30th April 2025
Empowering Himalayan communities with solar micro-grids in Ladakh This case study examines the role that solar micro-grids have played in empowering remote communities in Ladakh, a region high in the Indian Himalayas. These systems have provided an alternative in areas that have long struggled with limited power due to harsh terrain and sparse populations, which have made extending the national grid unfeasible. Prior to this, many households relied on polluting and inefficient fossil fuels like kerosene, diesel, and firewood, sources that posed health risks and contributed to climate change.
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26th March 2025
What do knowledge brokers working on locally-led adaptation need to get right to enhance their impact? This was one of the questions we posed to project partners involved in the Step Change initiative, who recently met in Arusha, Tanzania. CDKN facilitated a session using the 'All hands on deck' card game to bring out the most important aspects of their knowledge brokering approaches.
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7th February 2025
How better urban planning and design can help Rajkot beat the heat Rapid urbanisation and global climate change are contributing to the urban heat island (UHI) effect in cities across the world. Anuradha Adhikari of ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability South Asia (ICLEI South Asia) and Nilesh Prajapati (GFA Consulting Group GmbH) share recommendations for reducing the urban heat island effect in Rajkot, India, providing an example for other cities.
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30th January 2025
Landmark science-policy assessment highlights the importance of integrated strategies in addressing interlinked global crises CDKN's EbA lead, Nadia Sitas, was a coordinating lead author and part of the negotiation team for the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Nexus Assessment. She reports on the latest global assessments, which were approved in December 2024.
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29th January 2025
'All hands on deck' knowledge brokering card game This set of reflection cards was developed to facilitate more dynamic, playful meetings that focus on serious issues. The cards have multiple uses, from being a tool to surface challenges, solutions or priorities - at an individual or organisational level - to being a game that can be played to share deeper reflections or conversations about what matters in our work.
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13th December 2024
Resilience in action: Implementing locally-led adaptation in Bangladesh Bangladesh, a country vulnerable to a wide range of climate-related disasters, such as tropical cyclones, floods, coastal erosion, droughts and landslides, has limited coping capacity or budget to adapt and respond to these disasters at the community level. However, communities in coastal, drought-prone and flood-prone regions are demonstrating the power and effectiveness of locally-led adaptation (LLA) efforts to build resilience to climate-related challenges.
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6th December 2024
Unlocking the potential of locally-led action: Anticipating the IPBES transformative and nexus assessments Two upcoming assessments by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) hold the promise of transformative ecosystem based solutions that are evidence-based and agreed on through multilateral science-policy processes.
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2nd December 2024
How do we surface and address power dynamics for more inclusive and equitable co-creation processes? The CDKN and CLARE teams share some collective knowledge on holding co-creation processes with diverse participants, particularly when it comes to surfacing and addressing power dynamics.
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26th November 2024
CDKN reacts to the COP29 outcomes CDKN's CEO, Shehnaaz Moosa, reacts to the COP29 outcomes agreed in Baku over the last two weeks, particularly the new global finance goal, which falls far short of what developing countries urgently need. The deal leaves a big “out” and does not sound like the leadership we need to right historic climate injustices.
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19th November 2024
New knowledge brief demonstrates the value of ecosystem-based adaptation across the Rio Conventions At the recent Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) COP16 in Cali, Colombia, the Friends of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (FEBA) released a knowledge brief illustrating how EbA supports the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF).