The Government of Ethiopia has benefitted from undertaking a ‘gender audit’ of its climate-smart development activities. Medhin Fissha, the former Gender and Social Safeguards Officer of Ethiopia’s Climate Resilience Green Economy (CRGE) Facility explains how.

CDKN’s long partnership with the Government of Ethiopia has yielded rich learning on the ways to integrate two completely cross-cutting aspects of development – gender and climate change – into government policy and its implementation. Robi Redda, Arsema Andargatchew and Lucia Scodanibbio report.

In the peri-urban areas of Addis Ababa Ethiopia, community members are collectively saving money to deal with multiple hardships posed by the global pandemic. Ephrem Tesema reports. This is the 36th in the series of stories from Voices from the Frontline initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN.

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...]