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302
Resources
608
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1272
Feature
8th September 2016
Integrating resilience into infrastructure – a wicked problem Climate change is an opportunity for governments to put into place long overdue policies and practices around infrastructure--says CDKN Africa’s Dr Shehnaaz Moosa, who spoke at World Water Week.
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Project : Supporting the Government of Ethiopia with developing and refining climate finance pipeline proposals

This project will build on CDKN’s previous support to the Government of Ethiopia in the development of various sector proposals for submission to the Green Climate Fund.

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Project : Strengthening climate change development programmes in Uganda

This project looked at how Uganda can strengthen climate-smart value chains, specifically in the dairy sector in southwest region and in the livestock sector, as well as the emerging issue of interest in Uganda and other partner countries in environment/climate related migration.

Feature
26th August 2016
The Paris Agreement in action - implementing Bangladesh’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) James Harries of Ricardo of Energy & Environment shares his observations as part of a CDKN project to assist the Government of Bangladesh implement its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC).
Event
24th August 2016
Mainstreaming climate resilient infrastructure How do we ensure that we are not promoting climate resilient poverty and how do we ensure robust decision-making in planning for and implementing water infrastructure that takes into account climate resilience? These are some of the questions panelists will be discussing at CDKN's official side event at this year's World Water Week in Stockholm.
Feature
24th August 2016
Coping with heatwaves CDKN is supporting stakeholders to develop a heatwave management plan for Karachi, Pakistan. Syed Muhammad Abubakar, Knowledge Officer for CDKN Asia, highlights how this project will initiate a process at the local level.
Feature
23rd August 2016
Paris to Dhaka Munjurul Hannan Khan, CDKN's country advisor for Bangladesh, Areej Riaz CDKN's country programme manager for Bangladesh and Syed Muhammad Abubakar, CDKN's KN Officer for Asia, shed light on Bangladesh’s preparation and implementation of INDC which will help to make its economic sectors climate resilient, towards a low-carbon economy.
News
20th August 2016
Getting climate finance ready - Experience from Bangladesh and Pakistan In this first of three sets of video presentations from the workshop ‘South-South Learning Exchange on Developing Bankable Climate Projects’, Jorge Villanueva and Zabreen Hasan of CDKN pose questions to climate finance specialists from South Asia: Iftikhar Hossain and Nazmul Haque of Bangladesh and Fawad Hayat of Pakistan.
Feature
19th August 2016
Lessons for climate compatible development from African agriculture CDKN Africa's Nkulumo Zinyengere shares six lessons from the Regional Climate Smart Agriculture Conference, which he recently attended. He looks at the detailed efforts to advance climate smart agriculture in southern Africa.
Feature
12th August 2016
Saving the vulnerable Syed Muhammad Abubakar of CDKN Asia, highlights CDKN's role in supporting Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority to develop a risk transfer mechanism. This will eventually contribute to developing a National Disaster Insurance Framework in order to help the vulnerable communities better manage natural hazards.
Feature
10th August 2016
Public learning - Harnessing the power of exhibitions for transformative change What happens when ordinary citizens are confronted with images that are either deeply familiar or unfamiliar to their everyday life and experience of urban risk? When and how does such learning of the city have the potential to trigger transformative change? Adriana Allen reports from Lima, Peru.
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Project : Institutional strengthening and Capacity building of Indonesia’s NDA to access GCF readiness funds

The project aims to improve national climate finance readiness for Indonesia and is in line with CDKN’s focus of mobilising and leveraging funds for climate compatible development.