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315
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615
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1307
News
29th March 2023
Opportunité : Appel à notes conceptuelles - De la connaissance à l'action résiliente au climat dans les pays africains Le CDKN a le plaisir de vous informer du lancement d’un appel à notes conceptuelles, dans le cadre de la nouvelle phase de son programme. Cet appel axée sur le thème “Des connaissances à l'action résiliente au climat.
News
29th March 2023
Opportunity: Call for concepts - From knowledge to climate-resilient action in African countries CDKN is pleased to announce a call for concept notes under the programme’s new five-year phase. The ‘knowledge-to-action’ call will provide grants to projects led by African organisations that mobilise Indigenous and local knowledge to support locally-led and inclusive climate-resilient action in Africa.
News
23rd March 2023
Elevating the role of water resilience in food system dialogues Ensuring resilient food systems and sustainable healthy diets for all requires much higher water use, however, water resources are finite, geographically dispersed and volatile under climate change. A new paper co-authored by CDKN CEO Shehnaaz Moosa highlights the role of water use in the food system and how good governance is central to achieving water-resilient food systems.
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Project
Active
Knowledge for Change - learning about knowledge brokering

CDKN is working to better understand how knowledge and evidence on climate change can inform and translate into policy and implementation.

Feature
2nd March 2023
The role of climate-smart agriculture enterprises in women's empowerment Women in agriculture are often disproportionately affected by climate change and structural gender inequalities. Under the Gender Equality in a Low Carbon World (GLOW) programme, experts from Intellecap share progress in reorienting the private sector to women's empowerment in climate-smart agricultural solutions in East Africa.​​​​​​​
Event
22nd February 2023
Local voices from the global South: Community action at the centre of resilient water solutions The UN 2023 Water Conference took place from 22-24 March 2023 in New York and online. CDKN co-hosted a virtual side event with Fundación Avina to bring local voices from the global South to the fore in communicating water solutions to reduce climate change vulnerabilities.
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Completed
Gender Equality in a Low Carbon World (GLOW)

GLOW was a three-year programme that supported research on promising women-led solutions for green economies and climate action.

Resource
13th February 2023
The role of knowledge brokers in advancing climate action In the climate arena and more widely, there are many terms to describe activities within the ‘knowledge-to-action’ spectrum – what CDKN terms ‘knowledge brokering’. This CDKN journal article and accompanying Essentials brief summarises how CDKN defines and understands climate knowledge brokering.
Resource
3rd February 2023
From low-carbon consumers to climate leaders This report for the Gender Equality in a Low-Carbon World (GLOW) programme reviews the evidence on women's economic empowerment in low-carbon transitions. It identifies the gaps in the evidence base; and recommends how GLOW and other research initiatives and funders may further enrich the evidence, and inform policy and practice.
News
23rd January 2023
COP27 Resilience Hub report out now The COP27 Resilience Hub report provides a run down of the key resilience and adaptation outcomes from COP27 and the main messages and policy takeaways from the Resilience Hub. It has been developed from inputs from more than 70 Resilience Hub sessions, the four Regional Resilience Hubs that took place in the lead up to COP27, as well as over 15,000 people across the world who participated in-person and online.
News
30th November 2022
Opportunity: Open call launched by Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, recently opened its call for ideas for the 2023 cycle. This call focuses on adaptation and gender-responsive climate finance, as well as ideas from Brazil, India, and Southern or East Africa.
Resource
16th November 2022
A compendium of finance sources and instruments to support climate action in Bangladesh, India and Nepal This compendium provides an overview of the climate finance landscape in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, and includes recommendations for accessing, planning, using and monitoring climate finance in the three countries.