Africa

Region: Africa

Africa:

Projects
95
Resources
155
Stories
298
Feature
10th April 2014
Building leadership on local level adaptation Jenny Clover from ICLEI Africa reflects on efforts to establish a community of practice around Ecosystems-based Adaptation approaches within African cities
Feature
7th April 2014
Communicate both the IPCC findings and the process Katharine Vincent, an author of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, reflects on our growing understanding of vulnerability, impacts and adaptation to climate change - and how the IPCC itself has evolved.
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Lessons from national climate compatible development planning in Rwanda, Kenya, Mozambique and Ethiopia

African and developing country governments are increasingly calling for practical examples of how to advance climate

Feature
27th March 2014
How do you prepare for an uncertain future? How could 'Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making' help African communities to become more climate-resilient? Lindsey Jones introduces the latest findings from the African Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA).
Feature
25th March 2014
Legal Response Initiative trains Kenyan government on climate law The Legal Response Initiative (LRI) and Environmental Compliance Institute (ECI), supported by CDKN, trained Kenyan government officials on the international climate negotiations, and what a new global agreement could mean for the law in Kenya.
Feature
20th March 2014
Securing safe water and good hygiene practices through results-based-aid in Uganda Adam Harvey discusses preliminary results from a pilot study that hopes to improve local water governance and domestic hygiene practices through performance-based financial incentives.
Feature
12th March 2014
New wind farms bode well for Ethiopia’s green growth strategy The latest newsletter from the Ethiopian Ministry of Environment and Forest highlights progress on the roll out of renewable energies.
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Commissioning media coverage of climate and development – collaboration with WRENmedia

Journalists in East Africa face significant challenges to reporting on issues related to climate change including a l

News
24th February 2014
Getting to grips with the economics of climate change in Uganda A research consortium is working closely with the Government of Uganda to generate the numbers for a comprehensive national response to climate change.
Feature
12th February 2014
How can we grow more, sustainably, and pay for it? Financing agricultural intensification CDKN's Chief Executive Sam Bickersteth reflects on the challenge of growing more, nutritious food, with least environmental impact, and getting the institutional channels in place to finance it.
Feature
11th February 2014
Moving beyond a 'mitigation first' approach to development Development is the overriding policy priority in developing countries, a critical factor when considering climate mitigation efforts from a domestic developing country perspective.
News
6th February 2014
Workshop drives south-south collaboration in modelling the costs of mitigation actions A group of southern research institutions are breaking new ground in understanding the socio-economic costs of mitigation actions, like carbon taxes, on national economies.