Africa

Region: Africa

Africa:

Projects
95
Resources
155
Stories
298
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Improving journalists’ capacity to cover climate change: the Climate Change Media Partnership

Over two years, CDKN supported the Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) to improve the quality and quantity of climate change coverage in the developing country media, enhance the capacity of journalists to cover the issues and ensure developing country voices are heard in global debates.

Feature
21st December 2011
December newsletter - CDKN's analysis from Durban In December's e-newsletter, CDKN presents coverage and analysis from Durban and highlights our new publication series, Inside Stories, which explores a range of climate compatible development policies and programmes in developing countries.
Feature
16th December 2011
CDKN Africa at CoP17 - Interview with Carl Wesselink, CDKN Africa Regional Director Interview at CoP 17 with Carl Wesselink about how Africa is taking charge of its own climate and development agenda.
Feature
15th December 2011
CDKN at CoP17 - videos from our debates on climate compatible development View videos from the many side events CDKN sponsored at CoP17 on the subject of climate compatible development.
Feature
15th December 2011
Nations on course for a multilateral legal framework on climate mitigation Tim Ash-Vie and Mairi Dupar of CDKN review the outcomes of CoP17 in Durban.
Feature
15th December 2011
Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change - what hope for Ethiopia’s water sector? Naomi Oates, Research Assistant at CDKN, reports how developing countries such as Ethiopia will need to respond quickly if they are to cope with predicted future climate impacts. The question is: how should they respond, and what does adaptation to climate change look like in practice?
Event
15th December 2011
CoP17 side event - water security and climate resilience in Africa Highlights of the official side event at CoP17 on increasing finance and investments for wate
Event
15th December 2011
CoP17 side event - addressing climate change in Kenya Highlights from the official COP17 side event:
Event
9th December 2011
CDKN live at CoP-17! Read CDKN's live feed reporting from CoP-17 in Durban. We will be posting updates, videos and pictures with news and views from the negotiations as they happen.
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Kenya Climate Change Action Plan: a flagship model for Africa

Led by Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources (MEMR), the Government of Kenya, supported by CDKN, is developing a Climate Change Action Plan that cuts across sectors to implement Kenya’s National Climate Change Response Strategy (NCCRS), finalised in 2010.

Resource
8th December 2011
INSIDE STORY: From vulnerability to resilience - farmer managed natural regeneration (FMNR) in Niger Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration brings increased crop yields, income and food security to impoverished rural communities in Niger. It also holds climate change mitigation potential.
Resource
8th December 2011
INSIDE STORY: Working together for REDD+ - developing a national readiness strategy in Tanzania This Inside Story discusses the establishment of Tanzania's National Taskforce which aims to develop a National Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) Strategy by December 2012.