Africa

Region: Africa

Africa:

Projects
106
Resources
157
Stories
311
Completed
Project
Completed
Enhancing Direct Access to Adaptation Funding in Kenya

This project was designed to enhance Kenya’s prospects to access international sources of finance, in particular from the Green Climate Fund, by offering technical support to the GoK to develop an investment-grade adaptation project pipeline and proposals, a country-driven approach with a long-term programmatic view.

Completed
Project
Completed
Providing technical advisory support towards the implementation of Rwanda’s Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy

This project seeks to put in place technical support to the Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) to support in the implementation of the Strategy. This technical support will be provided through a drawdown pool of technical expertise in specific thematic areas identified by REMA.

Resource
31st January 2017
CASE STUDY: Benefits of low emission development strategies - The case of Kenya's Lake Turkana Wind Power Project The Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (LTWP), currently under construction, will add 310 megawatts (MW) of wind power capacity to Kenya’s national grid. A new case study from the Low Emission Development Strategies Global Platform (LEDS GP) assesses the development benefits of the project and some of the measures the developers and government have taken to manage social impacts and generate benefits locally.
Resource
31st January 2017
Image of people pulling water out of a well To accompany the project Raising Risk Awareness, CDKN is offering high-quality i
Event
31st January 2017
Raising Risk Awareness in Ethiopia In collaboration with Ethiopia's National Meteorological Agency and the Addis Ababa University, the RRA team invites you to a two-day event focusing on the science of extreme event attribution, analysis of the 2015 drought in Ethiopia and the implication it has for decision-making, and its implications for rebuilding and resilience efforts following such an event.
Feature
30th January 2017
Enhancing African capacity on climate and development knowledge African scientific experts have formed the 'October Group' to boost African contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report process gets underway.
Feature
25th January 2017
Yes, some extreme weather can be blamed on climate change A leading scientist explains that improved computing and statistics can tie extreme events to global warming.
News
25th January 2017
Initiative to raise awareness on climate change impacts An initiative has been formed to help African and Asian societies understand climate change-related impacts such as extreme weather events and prepare for future ones.
Resource
24th January 2017
Reality of resilience: Perspectives of the 2015–16 drought in Ethiopia This report highlights lessons from the 2015–16 drought in Ethiopia, including how and why different communities were impacted
Resource
24th January 2017
REPORT: Kenya ending drought emergencies policy review: scenarios for building resilience in ASALs This report highlights some of the political economy factors that affect the implementation of Kenya’s Ending Drought Emergencies (EDE) Common Programme Framework.
Resource
24th January 2017
REPORT: Attribution of extreme weather events in Africa: a preliminary exploration of the science and policy implications This report explains the methods and implications of different approaches to the attribution of extreme weather events with a focus on Africa.
News
24th January 2017
Africa gears up for first-of-a-kind climate impact study A scientific pilot in Kenya and Ethiopia seeks to identify the link between extreme weather events and global warming