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3rd November 2026
CDKN: 15 years of bridging knowledge and climate action While CDKN legacy activities will continue in several of our focal countries and the relationships, capacities and institutional changes built over the past 15 years will endure, CDKN in it's current form will end. Before that happens, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the journey that brought us here. The world has changed considerably since CDKN began in 2010. Lisa McNamara, CDKN programme lead, looks back.
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11th September 2016
Action Lab to take on Ugandan climate issues CDKN will co-host an Action Lab with the Netherlands Embassy in Kampala, Uganda to discuss climate smart dairy and livestock value chains and how to strengthen the resilience of migrants to environmental shocks and climate change.
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7th April 2011
New ideas stream from CDKN Action Lab Participants in CDKN's Action Lab created a colourful marketplace of ideas as the programme came to a high-energy close in Oxford.
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22nd September 2016
Action lab tackles Uganda's climate and migration challenges CDKN and the Netherlands Embassy co-hosted an Action Lab in Kampala that brought together development practitioners from government, donors, research organisations and implementation partners to identify research questions and other actions that could help Uganda tackle climate change. Suzanne Carter and Juliane Nier of CDKN share the key messages on climate-related migration.
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25th April 2011
CDKN Action Lab - videos of innovative prototypes now online Participants at the CDKN Action Lab developed a series of innovative prototype ideas for dealing with climate compatible development. Click here for a video summary of the Action Lab, and films of all the prototypes.
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10th February 2014
CDKN announces technical and financial support for "prototypes" from Colombia Action Lab CDKN, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MADS) of Colombia and MatizArt have announced the climate compatible development ‘prototypes’ to be selected for technical and financial support, following Colombia’s Action Lab.
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5th October 2016
Uganda Action Lab - developing climate smart value chains in the dairy and livestock sectors What would climate smart dairy and livestock value chains look like in Uganda? A recent action lab looked at ideas to enhance climate change outcomes for the east African country.
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Project : Resilient Cities Action Lab: Creating partnerships for climate risk preparedness in Latin America

This CDKN Innovation Fund project aims to identify mechanisms for strengthening resilience, highlighting opportunities where the private sector, including the insurance sector, and civil society networks can help build the capacity of government agencies to respond to climate-related risks.

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26th February 2015
Latin America ‘Action Lab’ aims to spark transformative agendas for climate policy In Quito, Ecuador, participants from 10 countries will gather to build momentum for this year's global climate negotiations, reports Jorge Villanueva of CDKN.
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3rd September 2013
Action LAB Colombia will look for articulated efforts among diverse climate actors Preliminary phase consisted in online sessions which allowed participants to know each other and thinking about the coordination challenges between climate actors, essaying possible solutions.
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11th July 2012
“Resilient Cities Action Lab” - a melting pot for collaboration among Latin America urban leaders In early June 2012, more than 40 Latin American leaders from the public sector, business and civil society gathered in the mountains outside Rio de Janeiro to discuss and create new cross-sector partnerships on urban resilience to climate change.
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Active
Youth in Climate Action Small Grants Initiative in Ethiopia

CDKN Ethiopia supports gender-equitable and socially inclusive climate-resilient action by strengthening the capacities and leadership of government and youth partners. From 2023, youth groups participated in Ethiopia's Gender Equality and Social Inclusion and Climate Change Community of Practice. A youth-led assessment subsequently mapped climate and environmental initiatives in Addis Ababa and identified limited access to finance, organisational capacity and networking opportunities as major barriers to youth-led action.