FEATURE: CDKN film series – African experts urge ‘accelerated action’ on adaptation
CDKN is delighted to present six new video interviews with African adaptation experts, as part of a short film series ‘Adaptation Voices’. [more...]
Latest stories
FEATURE: Mbarara, Uganda – informal community uses collective savings to deal with Covid-19
The slum dwellers in Mbarara city, Uganda are using collective savings to deal with the global pandemic and invest in new businesses. Sarah Nandudu reports. This is the 40th story from the Voices from the Frontline series by ICCCAD and CDKN. [more...]
FEATURE: Siaya, Kenya – Repositioning skills for food security amid the Covid-19 pandemic
In a remote village, located in Siaya County, Kenya, a group of women have taken up vegetable farming as a means to fight against the Covid-19 induced food insecurity. Rosemary Atieno reports. This is the 38th story in the Voices from the Frontline series by ICCCAD and CDKN. [more...]
FEATURE: Generating accessible and uniquely African climate information – The story of FCFA
Across Africa, people need useful, actionable climate information if they are to manage climate risks effectively for a more resilient future. The Future Climate For Africa (FCFA) programme has shown how climate research and collaboration across disciplines, countries and even continents can produce relevant, accessible climate information, while also building the capacity of African decision-makers to use the information. [more...]
CDKN Resources
FILM: Adaptation Voices - Dr Youba Sokona, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
In an interview with CDKN, Dr Youba Sokona of the IPCC shares his hopes that increased interest in climate change from African political leaders, scientists and academics will accelerate adaptation action and lead to greater climate resilience. [more]…
FILM: Adaptation Voices - Claire Nasike Akello, Hummingbird Foundation and Greenpeace Africa
Young people are channeling their energies into ecological farming and land restoration, in self-help efforts to provide food security and create decent work - says Claire Nasike Akello, founder of Kenya’s Hummingbird Foundation and an environmental campaigner for Greenpeace Africa, in an interview with CDKN. [more]…
Resources from our partners
Investing for sustainable climate services: Insights from the African experience
https://www.odi.org/publications/17784-investing-sustainable-climate-services-insights-african-experience
The report ‘Investing for sustainable climate services: Insights from the African experience’ looks at the support provided to strengthen weather and climate information services in several African countries from 2016
Resilience of local communities: Lessons from COVID-19
https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/resource/brief-resilience-of-local-communities-lessons-from-covid-19/
When a crisis hits, community organisations can draw upon six social dimensions of resilience. This brief highlights learnings from how communities in the Global South responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Projects
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PROJECT: Strengthening regional climate change governance through integrating gender-responsive climate action in Namibia
This project focuses on achieving climate-resilient rural and community development in Namibia by strengthening climate change governance through the integration of gender-responsive climate action into regional plans and projects. [more...]
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PROJECT: Empowering women and transforming gender relations in the Volta delta, Ghana
This project focuses on raising awareness around the need to increase women’s access to land through changes in inheritance rights as well as to create opportunities for adaptive livelihoods within the Sogakope and Keta communities in Ghana. [more...]
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PROJECT: Mitigating the effects of climate change on grain quality and post-harvest losses in East Africa
This project focuses on promoting climate change adaptation initiatives that are designed to positively impact agricultural productivity in the grain sector, and therefore improve food security in the East African region. [more...]
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PROJECT: Mobilising Investment for NDC implementation in Ethiopia
The Mobilising Investment project in Ethiopia is working to identify the current regulatory and financial barriers to the growth of the mini-grid sector and opportunities for productive use. [more...]
