Africa

Region: Africa

Africa:

Projects
106
Resources
159
Stories
308
News
12th February 2019
Global Resilience Partnership launches innovation challenge The Global Resilience Partnership and USAID have joined forces with KPMG to launch an innovation challenge - designed to identify and nurture novel examples of resilience in Africa and Asia.
News
12th February 2019
African reporting fellowships available The Pan African Media Alliance for Climate Change (PAMACC) encourages East African journalists to apply for fellowship opportunities to report on the social and political implications of delivering weather and climate services in East Africa.
News
4th February 2019
15 opportunities for private climate investment in South Africa Blaise Dobson of SouthSouthNorth describes how aligning national priorities, the private sector’s interests and multilateral climate finance frameworks can make investments in climate action a reality. A new study, commissioned by the Southern Africa Climate Finance Partnership, uses this approach to identify 15 opportunities ready for climate investment in South Africa’s transitioning economy.
Feature
28th January 2019
Livestock at risk in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands Research by the Pathways to Resilience in Semi-Arid Economies (PRISE) project is changing how Kenyan decision-makers think about and approach their support for pastoralist agriculture. Robina Abuya and colleagues explain.
Feature
23rd January 2019
Weather Chasers of Malawi care for communities - and the climate Katharine Vincent describes how a dedicated group of Malawian citizens began by communicating weather forecasts to communities -- and then broadened its mission to plant trees and actively restore the environment.
News
23rd January 2019
Near-term climate prediction ‘coming of age’ Grahame Madge of the UK Met Office reports on new directions in climate science that will support policy and planning everywhere. The emergence of near-term climate predictions will especially benefit developing countries facing many climate stresses and vulnerabilities.
Feature
18th January 2019
How climate researchers and businesses began speaking the same language: A case from Senegal Researchers from the action-research project, PRISE, describe how new knowledge partnerships are making development more environmentally and economically sustainable in Senegal.
Feature
14th January 2019
Hike in record-dry months for Africa's Sahel worries scientists A recent study reveals alarming trends in the lack of rainfall in Africa's Sahel region - reports Laurie Goering of ThomsonReuters.
News
28th December 2018
Clean, reliable power for Africa: The potential for mini-grids This short film highlights the potential of mini-grids to address the energy challenges in rural Africa, while tackling the global challenge of climate change.
Feature
17th December 2018
East African climate services connect with local communities Met departments and others are strengthening climate services in East Africa and it is having a positive impact on development, reports Bill Leathes of the Met Office, the UK’s national meteorological service.
Feature
11th December 2018
Modelling Mozambique's low-emissions future Almeida Sitoe, Sadie Cox and Tim Woods report on a major low-emissions project that is modelling future development pathways for Mozambique and providing scenarios for the next version of its NDC.
Completed
Project
Completed
Future Climate for Africa

Future Climate for Africa is a 5-year project that aims to generate fundamentally new climate science focused on Africa, and ensure this science has an impact on human development across the continent, through making infrastructure, urban and rural plans and investments more climate resilient.