Mozambique

Region: Mozambique

Mozambique:

Projects
15
Resources
3
Stories
30
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.
Feature
4th March 2016
The impact of 2014 elections on climate change governance in Mozambique After the presidential elections in 2014, Mozambique underwent significant changes in government to reduce bureaucracy and government spending. Celso Tamele, a biosystems engineer and consultant, considers the consequences for climate change governance.
News
14th February 2016
New book: Citizen participation in climate compatible development planning Citizens have knowledge and access to resources that enable them to develop a sustainable vision for their community. This is one of the findings from a CDKN-funded project in Maputo, Mozambique. Vanesa Castán Broto, one of the project leads, talks about the newly published practitioners’ handbook that looks at ways to engage with communities for climate compatible development.
Feature
18th December 2015
Scarcity in the midst of plenty: Climate impact in the Limpopo Basin What exactly is involved in compiling a climate resilience strategy? Shravya K. Reddy, Principal at Pegasys Strategy and Development, discusses her experience in designing such a strategy for the Limpopo River Basin in Mozambique, where water abundance and scarcity are significant issues.
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Project : Embedding climate change into university curriculum in southern Africa

This CDKN project worked with universities in southern Africa to strengthen their contributions to addressing climate change in the region.

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Project : Climate change, health, agriculture and disaster analysis

The project is the second of a two phase effort that seeks to facilitate and develop a prioritised and costed policy research agenda and a Plan of Action approved by the Ministry of Health in Mozambique.

Feature
1st September 2015
Water-climate nexus will be central to Sustainable Development Goals Sustainable Development Goals and the climate change negotiations were high on the agenda at World Water Week, a global event celebrated in Stockholm, Sweden in late August. CDKN Africa’s Ronald Mukanya and Claire Mathieson write.
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Building climate resilience in the Limpopo basin

Infrastructure development is seen as one of the key investment areas in enhancing water security in Africa.

Event
26th January 2015
Learning from CDKN’s city experience CDKN presents a webinar on the effect of extreme heat on public health, examining the implementation of Ahmedabad's Heat Action Plan. The webinar will take place on 3 February.
Resource
16th January 2015
POLICY BRIEF: Using climate information to achieve long-term development objectives in coastal Ghana and Mozambique Accra, Ghana and Maputo, Mozambique face many development challenges, such as poor transport and drainage infrastructure, as a result of inadequate regulation and law enforcement. Climate change could lead to flooding and coastal erosion and will compound these challenges. Could better use of climate information in planning hold the answer? A new policy brief from the Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) programme and CDKN lays out some options.
Feature
10th September 2014
Contextualising climate services in Maputo and Accra Joseph Daron of the University of Cape Town looks at ways in which local decision-makers might be able to deliver more effective climate services.