Projects

Projects

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Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Priority action area

CDKN’s Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) work enhances knowledge and promotes Southern-led leadership on how ecosystem-based approaches for climate adaptation can be implemented in ways that are gender equitable and socially just, leading to positive outcomes for people and nature.

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Accelerating gender equitable and socially inclusive climate action in Namibia

The Namibia programme aims to improve access to climate finance for locally-led adaptation, and amplify the impact of Namibian researchers as they contribute to climate policy and global scientific data that forms the basis for climate action in Africa.

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Building water resilience in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid land areas

This project aims to inform inclusion and meaningful participation of communities and collaboration with key stakeholders in decision-making, implementation and management of locally-led water investments, to ensure their efficacy and sustainability.

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Ethiopia Community of Practice for Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) in climate change

This project aims to facilitate GESI integration in climate action across the work of various national stakeholders in Ethiopia.

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Resilience Evidence Coalition

This project aims to connect existing initiatives and gather evidence on resilience that can be used to inform and shape policies, plans and investments to deliver a resilient future.

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Africa Regional Resilience Hub

The Africa Regional Resilience Hub plays a central role in elucidating and communicating regional priorities, actions, solutions and challenges to be amplified at the global scale.

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Knowledge for Change - learning about knowledge brokering

CDKN is working to better understand how knowledge and evidence on climate change can inform and translate into policy and implementation.

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Gender Equality in a Low Carbon World (GLOW)

This project is supporting research on promising women-led solutions for green economies and climate action.

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Justice in a changing climate

This project is amplifying local climate knowledge and solutions so they are better recognised and supported, as well as advocating for the financing of these locally-shaped responses.

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Innovation small grant accelerator platform

This programme aims to promote scaled-up adaptation at the local level, focusing on civil society, non-governmental organisations, and women and youth innovators.

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Heat action in cities in Bangladesh and Nepal

This project supported the cities Rajshahi in Bangladesh and Nepalgunj in Nepal to improve urban heat resilience before the next heat season.

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Supporting climate resilience in Ghana

CDKN has been working with the University of Ghana since 2019 to inform the implementation and mainstreaming of the National Climate Change Policy in Ghana.