Guy Rudolph of CDKN describes a new Climate Information for Grains tool, which is designed to help farmers respond to climate change.

How would you feel if you faced climate hazards – in someone else’s shoes? How would your age, your physical and mental abilities, your health, the way other people treat you affect how you could respond? A new interactive role-playing game by CDKN uses a colourful cast of characters set in a fictional, small Ethiopian town to explore exactly these questions.

Weather and climate information provided by national meteorological services across East Africa can at times be technical and difficult for non-experts to understand. That’s why a partnership across the region has come up with an ingenious solution: Climate Cafés.

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...]