Africa

Region: Africa

Africa:

Projects
95
Resources
155
Stories
298
News
28th March 2013
Kenya's National Climate Change Action Plan is officially launched After 18 months of development and an extensive consultation process across sectors of society, Kenya launched its National Climate Change Action Plan yesterday. Tim Ash Vie, CDKN East Africa Hub Lead, reports from Nairobi.
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Project : Climate change counts: Strengthening SADC universities' contributions to climate compatible development

The 'Climate Change Counts' mapping study provides a valuable opportunity for university stakeholders to come together to build partnerships for collaboratively producing and using knowledge on climate compatible development at country and regional levels, and to better understand and respond to the specific knowledge and research needs of community, policy and private sector stakeholders.

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Project : CORDEX-Africa: enhancing the use of climate information in decision-making

This project will further advance outreach and capacity building efforts by developing guidance materials that will allow climate model data to be used across disciplines and decision-making contexts.

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Project : Exploring local access to the Green Climate Fund (GCF)

The objective of this project is to ensure that the Green Climate Fund is directly accessible to sub-national stakeholders, including local authorities, civil society organisations and knowledge institutions, in order for them to design and implement sustainable adaptation strategies.

News
18th March 2013
New approaches to promoting flexible and forward-looking decision making Drawing on insights from complexity science, this paper describes what processes are needed to promote Flexible and Forward-looking Decision Making (FFDM).
Feature
8th March 2013
An introduction to the CFAS recommended reading Sven Harmeling of Germanwatch introduces the Climate Finance Advisory Service’s ‘Recommended reading guide’ to topical issues in climate finance, and invites readers to contribute their ideas.
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8th March 2013
Climate finance advisory service - policy briefs As part of it's service, CFAS will be producing a series of policy briefs on any topics that are large or complex enough to warrant a detailed review.
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8th March 2013
POLICY BRIEF: Towards the Fifth Review of the UNFCCC’s Financial Mechanism CDKN's new policy brief, and the first from the Climate Finance Advisory Service, concerns the Fifth Review of the UNFCCC's Financial Mechanism and is targeted at the climate finance community.
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Project : Renewable Energy Empowerment in Sierra Leone: A Vision to Electrify Rural Sierra Leone

This project aims to build a national renewable energy knowledge base for Sierra Leone from which an inclusive and participatory national renewable energy policy may be developed.

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6th March 2013
Tracking climate finance Climate finance advisory service recommended reading on tracking climate finance
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6th March 2013
Improving coherence and delivery of climate finance Climate finance advisory service recommended reading on improving coherence and delivery of climate finance
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6th March 2013
Mobilising resources and financial instruments Climate finance advisory service recommended reading on mobilising resources and financial instruments