This project aims to foster climate compatible development in African cities through working with informality and building climate resilience amongst the urban poor.

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.

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.

Ecosystem-based adaptation is listed in the Durban Adaptation Charter as a priority action for local and sub-national governments. This project brings together urban practitioners, policy makers and the scientific community/leading thinkers to draft a “framework” for smart decision-making criteria around Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) and ecosystems management for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).

In considering mitigation actions, policy makers not only need to consider the costs and benefits of embarking on a low carbon development path, they also need to consider the socio-economic implications of any action. CDKN is supporting a research project which will develop cutting edge methodologies to link sectoral and economy wide models in order to address issues critical to the development of climate-compatible policy.