Cameroon

Region: Cameroon

Cameroon:

Projects
4
Resources
3
Stories
11
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Urban Art for Climate in Cameroon

This knowledge-to-action (K2A) project provides a platform for young people to artistically express themselves and advocate for improved livelihoods resilient to climate change.

News
13th March 2024
From knowledge to climate-resilient action - five African organisations selected for CDKN grants As part of its commitment to turning climate knowledge into climate-resilient action, CDKN is providing Knowledge-to-Action (K2A) grants in Africa. After putting out an open call for locally-led adaptation initiatives last year, five K2A projects were chosen from an extremely competitive pool of over 1000 applicants. The selected K2A projects are in Benin, Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique and South Sudan.
News
28th December 2018
Clean, reliable power for Africa: The potential for mini-grids This short film highlights the potential of mini-grids to address the energy challenges in rural Africa, while tackling the global challenge of climate change.
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The Low Emission Development Strategies Global Partnership (LEDS GP)

The Low Emission Development Strategies Global Partnership (LEDS GP) facilitates peer learning, technical cooperation and information exchange to support the formation and implementation of low emission development strategies.

Resource
5th June 2018
Report: Bottom-up climate legislation in Cameroon To implement the Paris climate change agreement at the national level, countries will have to rev
Feature
3rd June 2016
Seeking capacity development results How can capacity development best be organised to generate good results? Klas Sandström of Niras looks at a CDKN-supported water project where over 130 professionals increased their capacity in climate resilient planning and a Pan-Africa network in climate adaptation work was established.
News
4th April 2016
New initiative will assist African governments to model, design and deliver low emission development New Africa LEDS Planning, Modeling, and Implementation Initiative will strengthen the capacity of African countries to plan and implement low emission, climate resilient development.
News
17th January 2016
Prestigious media prize for CDKN-supported journalist Arison Tamfu of Cameroon is awarded the Lorenzo Natali Media Prize for his reporting on the potential of renewable energy technologies in Africa. For the past year, he has been working with CDKN to cover important climate change issues in the region.
Feature
18th September 2014
Adapting institutions to meet climate change impacts in Cameroon Hervé Wouapi looks at the processes that constrain the resilience of a community in one of Cameroon's semi-arid 'hot spots' and finds that farmers are grappling with many weather- and climate-related risks.
Resource
7th August 2014
REPORT: Reducing Tropical Deforestation and the Protection of Ecosystem Services to Support Food Security in Southwest Cameroon This paper, Reducing Tropical Deforestation and the Protection of Ecosystem Services to Support Food Security in Southwest Cameroon, carried out an ecological and socio-economic evaluation including a system dynamic model using data collected from 131 subsistence agro-forest systems selected within the support zones of the Korup National Park and Douala-Edea Reserve.
Feature
20th December 2013
Capacity development is key to aiding smart decision-making Beatrice Mosello is cautiously optimistic about current work to assist African policy makers integrate water security and climate resilience into development planning.
News
26th November 2013
Country pilot studies for Future Climate for Africa programme CDKN is commissioning a series of pilot case studies across sub-Saharan Africa.