This Green Guide project took forward the notion of 'greening’ as a process and not just an outcome, focusing on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. This goes to the heart of development planning by positioning the twinned issues of the green economy and climate change as an opportunity for equitable and inclusive development. The project tackled questions such as where to start?, what next? and how to make this work for the poor?, taking a step towards ’climate-proofing’ policy and the mainstreaming of climate compatible development (CCD) in practice.

Project outputs and resources:

• Research brief: Locating the Policy Space for Inclusive Green Growth within the SADC Extractive Sector
• One pager: Going Green with Equity: our approach
• One pager: Considering Growth and Equity in SADC Today
• One pager: SADC Parliamentarians as Green Growth Leaders
• One pager: From Research to Results: Greener Pathways for the SADC Region
• Academic article: Greening growth in the South: practice, policies and new frontiers

Lead: Leisa Perch (International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, UNDP)

Project Partners: Paul Msoma (SADC Parliamentary Forum); Adeolu Odusote (Independent Consultant); Md Taher (Independent Consultant); Andrew Bilski (Independent Consultant)

CDKN Funding: £80,000