Namibia

Region: Namibia

Namibia:

Projects
5
Resources
4
Stories
17
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12th June 2025
Improving local access to climate finance: Lessons from the CDKN Namibia country programme This blog, by Amanda April and Margaret Angula, dives into the critical challenge of ensuring climate finance effectively reaches local communities in Namibia. It examines the complexities of current funding flows, highlighting significant barriers and offering practical recommendations to bridge the gap between national climate goals and essential on-the-ground adaptation efforts.
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Amplifying voices of African researchers

This regional action area seeks to strengthen the science-policy-practice interface through knowledge brokering and supporting African researchers.

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Accelerating gender equitable and socially inclusive climate action in Namibia

The Namibia programme aims to improve access to climate finance for locally-led adaptation, and amplify the impact of Namibian researchers as they contribute to climate policy and global scientific data that forms the basis for climate action in Africa.

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21st August 2023
Key insights: Convening national and sub-national actors in Namibia to scale adaptation action CDKN’s Amanda April, Fatema Rajabali and Margaret Angula reflect on the Namibia country programme inception meeting, where key stakeholders laid the groundwork for collaboration to build resilience, enhance adaptation and promote sustainable practices. The authors share eight insights that emerged from the collaborative meeting.
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5th October 2021
Learning Story: Lessons from mainstreaming climate change in Namibia This learning story recounts the lessons learned by researchers and practitioners in Namibia over seven years of implementing different research projects on climate adaptation and resilience.
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3rd August 2021
Namibia: Parliament as a vehicle for climate action A team from the Desert Research Foundation of Namibia, the University of Namibia and Reos Partners were invited to translate climate knowledge into action. Here, they describe how they rose to the challenge - and trained Namibian Parliamentarians on the implications of 1.5 degrees of global warming.
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10th June 2021
Namibia is heating up: what global warming of 2°C means for this climate change hotspot A new animation from a CDKN-funded project in Namibia highlights the impacts of 2°C global warming on the country's vulnerable sectors, including agriculture, health and the economy, and recommends urgent adaptation action.
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31st May 2021
Film: Adapting to climate change in the Oshana Region, Namibia The Oshana Region of Namibia has been hard-hit by climate change, especially droughts, which have drastically disrupted farming practices and livelihoods. This film explores the experiences of community members in adapting to the changing climate.
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16th January 2021
Building an enabling environment for inclusive rural wellbeing It is time to address capacity gaps in water users associations in Namibia and make the most of their potential to support adaptation to climate change – say Salma Hegga, Irene Kunamwene and Gina Ziervogel of the University of Cape Town. This is one of a series of blogs to frame the Africa anchoring event of the Climate Adaptation Summit, January 2021.
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22nd October 2020
What does global warming of 1.5 degrees mean for Namibia? As part of the CDKN-funded project, Strengthening regional climate change governance through integrating gender-responsive climate action, the University of Namibia team have produced a graphic harvest on  what global warming of 1.5°C means for Namibia.
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21st October 2020
What does global warming of 1.5 degrees mean for Namibia? A CDKN-supported project in Namibia has produced a graphic harvest to highlight the implications of the latest research findings on what global warming of 1.5°C means for Namibia, a climate change hotspot and an already very dry, hot and water-stressed country.
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1st April 2020
Why reflect? Because it opens the door to rich learning on climate action Lucia Scodanibbio describes CDKN's recent efforts to learn with its partners in Namibia about effective 'climate knowledge brokering', a concept explained further in this blog. With contributions from Margaret Angula, Amanda April, Emma Baker, Ester Nangolo, Bernadette Shalumbu and Cecil Togarepi.