There is considerable potential for more locally-led anticipatory action to prepare people for extreme weather and climate events and avoid loss and damage - reports Myriam Castaneda Solares of the START International network, from a COP26 Resilience Hub event. [more...]
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. [more...]
Michael Carter – Director of Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk & Resilience – shares examples from Mali, Bangladesh, Mozambique and Tanzania where risk management tools are helping rural families not only withstand shocks, but move towards greater prosperity. [more...]
This week Mayor Aki-Sawyerr of Freetown, Sierra Leone, will appoint a Chief Heat Officer, to protect the well-being of city residents. Kathy Baughman McLeod reports from the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center. [more...]
CDKN, ODI, SNV, CARE and Mercy Corps have launched a new guide, entitled Advancing gender equality and climate action: A practical guide to setting targets and monitoring progress. [more]…
This issue of Ethiopia's NDC Highlights newsletter focuses on the country's REDD+ programme and green technology development and transfer. [more]…
This policy brief highlights actions that funding partners could take to ensure that future climate services programmes result in improved, sustainable, impactful, equitable and locally owned services with positive impacts on partners and society.
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
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. [more...]
CDKN has been working with FCFA and the Wikimedia Foundation to enhance the quality and accessibility of climate change information on the world's largest online encyclopaedia. [more...]
CDKN has been working to promote non-motorized transport (NMT) in Nairobi, one of Africa's fastest growing cities, since November 2019. [more...]
CDKN has been working to support NDC implementation in Ethiopia through the Climate Action Enhancement Package (CAEP). [more...]
