Africa

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Region: Africa

Africa:

Projects
95
Resources
155
Stories
297
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Project : Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA): Helping policy-makers understand rural adaptation

The Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) has developed the Local Adaptive Capacity framework (LAC), to frame its research. CDKN is funding ACCRA over a 6-month period to July 2011 to help it undertake deeper engagement with country governments and policy-makers.

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21st March 2011
World Forestry Day reflections - what next for REDD+? World Forestry Day on 21 March allows us to reflect on the many and varied benefits of forests to communities around the world. In a guest blog, Kristy Graham of the Overseas Development Institute looks at how the Cancun Agreement on REDD+ sought to safeguard the multiple benefits of forests, and discusses the challenges of integrating forests and REDD+ into low-carbon development strategies.
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12th March 2011
Postcard from Addis Ababa- When bull elephants fight In this latest in our 'Postcards' series, Geoff Barnard reports from the AfricaAdapt Symposium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He finds that Africa needs to find a way of blending sources of knowledge if it is to adapt successfully to a changing climate.
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Project : Making climate finance work for Africa

Within just a few months of the launch of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), our rapid response service fast-tracked a new project for the African Development Bank (AfDB) to provide urgent technical support on climate finance for the continent.

News
3rd January 2011
CDKN's annual partner survey - results are in Read the findings from CDKN's annual partner survey, with feedback on our products and services, performance and the experience of working with CDKN.
Resource
21st December 2010
In conversation... with Negash Teklu, Population Health Environment Integration CDKN speaks with Negash Teklu of Population Health Environment Integration in Ethiopia about impacts of climate change on human wellbeing and development prospects in Ethiopia, differential impacts on women, role of media in raising awareness and catalyzing action on climate change.
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Project : Rwanda's new Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy

H.E President Kagame and the Government of Rwanda asked CDKN and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to help it develop a National Climate Change and Low Carbon Development Strategy (NCCLCDS). The strategy, which was developed by the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment (SSEE) at the University of Oxford and completed in August 2011 involved nine months of discussions with stakeholders across ministries, the private sector and civil society.

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Project : Improving access to knowledge on climate and development

CDKN is working with the online information gateway, Eldis, to improve access to key research on climate and development.

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1st December 2010
REPORT: Regional implications of the AGF recommendations: Africa - Précis The United Nations Secretary’s High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Finance recently reported on ways to raise US$100 billion per year for climate change investment in developing countries by 2020. This summary details the key implications of the report for Africa.
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1st December 2010
REPORT: Regional implications of the AGF recommendations: Africa - Special Issue The United Nations Secretary’s High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Finance recently reported on ways to raise US$100 billion per year for climate change investment in developing countries by 2020. This Special Issue brief outlines the implications of the report recommendations for Africa.
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Project : Making the most of climate finance

AGF members asked CDKN to help developing country decision-makers to respond to the AGF's recommendations. CDKN supported climate finance experts at Vivid Economics to prepare reports on the opportunities and risks presented by the AGF’s findings to countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Small Island Developing States.

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27th November 2010
POLICY BRIEF: Is REDD+ an opportunity to support climate compatible development in developing countries? This policy brief looks at whether the new policies that have emerged to provide developing countries with international finance in order to implement REDD+ offer new opportunities to support climate compatible development.