Hydropower dams planned for eastern and southern Africa could put electricity supply at risk for vast regions because they rely on similar rainfall patterns for electricity generation—and so will suffer lack of water from droughts at the same time. This is the warning from new research led by Professor Declan Conway.

CDKN’s Tesfaye Hailu reports on the approval of a project to provide a sustainable water supply, which will benefit one million climate-vulnerable Ethiopians.

Ethiopia was recently approved for US$10 million’s worth of funding from the United Nations Adaptation Fund. Looking at this success, Leonie Joubert describes the lessons CDKN has learned from working with four East African countries in order to get them ‘climate ready’.

Dr Abiy Zegeye of Addis Ababa University discusses his experience of working with Raising Risk Awareness, and his take-home messages regarding Ethiopia’s extreme weather attribution. [more...]

This report highlights lessons from the 2015–16 drought in Ethiopia, including how and why different communities were impacted [more...]

The changing climate can offer considerable opportunities for countries like Ethiopia to adopt green technologies and pursue a green economy. This working paper shares lessons from the country’s national experience in planning climate compatible development. [more...]