Ethiopia

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Region: Ethiopia

Ethiopia:

Projects
25
Resources
48
Stories
48
Resource
29th January 2018
POLICY BRIEF: Promoting green urban industrialisation in Ethiopia A recent CDKN study across the towns of Kombolcha and Mek’ele in Ethiopia, both of which host new industrial parks, investigated whether taking a corridor approach to urban-industrial development can support more sustainable patterns of urban growth.
Resource
23rd January 2018
Working Paper: Aligning energy and climate objectives in NDCs The effectiveness of national energy policy will be decisive for achieving Paris Agreement objectives and the 2030 Agenda. A new CDKN Working Paper assesses how Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana and Peru are aligning these goals.
Feature
15th January 2018
Hydropower plans in eastern and southern Africa could put electricity supply at risk Hydropower dams planned for eastern and southern Africa could put electricity supply at risk for vast regions because they rely on similar rainfall patterns for electricity generation—and so will suffer lack of water from droughts at the same time. This is the warning from new research led by Professor Declan Conway.
News
4th October 2017
Ethiopia receives $50 million "direct access" support from GCF CDKN's Tesfaye Hailu reports on the approval of a project to provide a sustainable water supply, which will benefit one million climate-vulnerable Ethiopians.
Resource
14th August 2017
REPORT: Extreme drought in Ethiopia stretches drought management systems This factsheet, from the Raising Risk Awareness initiative, examines the impact of the 2015-16 drought on Ethiopia's drought management systems. The drought was an extremely rare event that only happens approximately once every few hundred years in north-eastern and central Ethiopia.
Feature
2nd August 2017
Five lessons for communicating climate risk We share five lessons on communicating climate risk from our work with local scientists, media, policy-makers and practitioners in India, Kenya and Ethiopia through the Raising Risk Awareness (RRA) project
Resource
24th July 2017
Attributing extreme weather events (Amharic version) What if we could better prepare for hazards like flooding and heat waves by understanding the changing risks of extreme weather events? This short film, presented in Amharic, explains the process behind attribution science and its importance in preparing for the future.
Resource
29th June 2017
Science summary: The drought in Ethiopia, 2015 The worst drought in decades gripped north and central Ethiopia in 2015, affecting nearly 10 million people. As part of the Raising Risk Awareness initiative, a partnership of scientists have conducted an analysis to determine whether climate change played a role in the drought.
Resource
15th May 2017
Learning from Raising Risk Awareness Artist Jorge Martin captures the learnings from the Raising Risk Awareness learning event in a digitized graphic, illustrating the importance of engaging policy makers on disaster risk reduction. This emerged out of the RRA East Africa workshop where participants discussed putting into practice the science around extreme weather events.
Resource
26th April 2017
The changing risk of extreme weather: Insights from Raising Risk Awareness Raising Risk Awareness held a three-day learning event, hosted in Nairobi, to bring together 65 members of the Raising Risk Awareness team from across the globe. A series of short films were produced on the takeaway messages of the learning event and the importance of climate science attribution.
Completed
Project
Completed
Water Resilience and Climate Resilience in the Horn of Africa Reference

This CDKN project explores potential opportunities in designing a comprehensive, regional water security and climate resilience programme for IGAD.

Resource
27th March 2017
Making informed decisions to prepare for extreme weather events Raising Risk Awareness (RRA) brings together scientists, vulnerability experts and knowledge brokers to assess the role of climate change in extreme weather events. This presentation explains the process behind attribution science and provides information on the RRA initiative.