Climate change adaptation and social protection in agroforestry systems: enhancing adaptive capacity and minimizing risk of drought in Zambia and Honduras Climate change adaptation and social protection in agroforestry systems: enhancing adaptive capacity and minimizing risk of drought in Zambia and Honduras

POLICY BRIEF: How should the new international disaster framework address gender equality? The lack of attention to, and misunderstanding of, gender inequality prevents the effective reduction of disaster risks. This policy brief by Dr Virginie Le Masson and Lara Langston highlights the need for specific gender-related measures to be included in the successor agreement to the Hyogo Framework for Action.

REPORT: How to win the argument on climate change - a five-point plan Climate change policy is contested, and – like all policy – has winners and losers. Simon Maxwell presents a five-point plan on how to win the public and policy argument on climate change.

Community-led disaster risk reduction in Mongu, Zambia: Project effectiveness review Community-led disaster risk reduction in Mongu, Zambia: Project effectiveness review

Climate variability and gender: Emerging experiences from Western Zambia Climate variability and gender: Emerging experiences from Western Zambia

The climate change agenda in Zambia National interests and the role of development cooperation The climate change agenda in Zambia National interests and the role of development cooperation

Climate-Smart Agriculture? A review of current practice of agroforestry and conservation agriculture in Malawi and Zambia Climate-Smart Agriculture? A review of current practice of agroforestry and conservation agriculture in Malawi and Zambia

WORKING PAPER: Supporting international climate negotiators - a monitoring and evaluation framework This Working Paper describes how CDKN has developed a tailored system for monitoring and evaluating the Negotiations Support programme, using an adapted outcome mapping approach alongside a logical framework (logframe)

The Plumbing of Adaptation Finance: Accountability, Transparency, and Accessibility at the Local Level The Plumbing of Adaptation Finance: Accountability, Transparency, and Accessibility at the Local Level

Equity Lessons from Multilateral Regimes for the New Climate Agreement This Working Paper looks at various trade, human rights, and environmental regimes - such as the Montreal Protocol - to see how they address equity, and draws out the lessons that the UNFCCC can learn from these regimes.

REPORT: Supporting climate negotiations - examining the evidence This paper draws on the findings of a study commissioned by CDKN and undertaken by Ricardo-AEA which reviews the existing evidence base and a range of case studies to (i) understand how effective past and present negotiation support efforts have been, and (ii) how to strengthen future negotiation support efforts.

OUTLOOK: Climate Finance Special Edition CDKN’s Climate and Development Outlook (November 2013) comes to grips with one of the hottest topics for discussion at the 19th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Warsaw, Poland: how developing countries will pay for climate compatible development and how the world can support them.