Themes: Adaptation and resilience

Themes: Adaptation and resilience

Active
Project
Active
Supporting local adaptation efforts to leverage scientific and Indigenous knowledge in western Mozambique

This knowledge-to-action (K2A) project seeks to help residents of Manica Province, Mozambique, better understand the climate risks they may face.

Feature
16th December 2024
Reflecting as we go: Lessons from CDKN’s open call for locally-led adaptation initiatives in Africa CDKN is providing Knowledge-to-Action (K2A) grants in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In Africa, an open call for locally-led adaptation (LLA) initiatives and a comprehensive selection process led to five K2A projects being chosen who received US$150,000 each in Benin, Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique and South Sudan. We intentionally adopted a learning approach and here we share our insights from the selection process.
Feature
13th December 2024
Resilience in action: Implementing locally-led adaptation in Bangladesh Bangladesh, a country vulnerable to a wide range of climate-related disasters, such as tropical cyclones, floods, coastal erosion, droughts and landslides, has limited coping capacity or budget to adapt and respond to these disasters at the community level. However, communities in coastal, drought-prone and flood-prone regions are demonstrating the power and effectiveness of locally-led adaptation (LLA) efforts to build resilience to climate-related challenges.
Feature
19th November 2024
New knowledge brief demonstrates the value of ecosystem-based adaptation across the Rio Conventions At the recent Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) COP16 in Cali, Colombia, the Friends of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (FEBA) released a knowledge brief illustrating how EbA supports the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF).
News
14th November 2024
CDKN’s knowledge brokering support to UNFCCC’s Needs-Based Finance project recognised in Adaptation Gap report The UN Environment Programme released its annual Adaptation Gap report last week, which calls for a dramatic increase in adaptation finance. As world leaders gather in Baku for COP29, the need for urgent climate finance is high on the agenda, especially for adaptation.
Feature
7th November 2024
Advancing equitable ecosystem-based adaptation work: Reflections from COP16 Following a busy COP16, CDKN’s Thematic Leads on Ecosystem-based Adaptation and Finance reflect on what they see as the key outcomes, concerns and next steps for advancing more equitable ecosystem-based adaptation work from local to global levels.
Resource
30th October 2024
Harnessing ecosystem-based adaptation to drive progress towards global targets Friends of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (FEBA), a collaborative network of over 100 organisations dedicated to advancing the awareness and uptake of ecosystem-based approaches in global adaptation and resilience efforts, has launched a pivotal report at COP26 in Cali, Colombia.
Feature
22nd October 2024
Democratising knowledge for transformative climate action Making knowledge systems more diverse to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders and audiences has been at the forefront of the climate change conversations, especially for adaptation. This blog explores how knowledge brokering could be co-created in an inclusive and innovative manner for resilience building at the local level.
Active
Project
Active
Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Priority action area

CDKN’s Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) work enhances knowledge and promotes Southern-led leadership on how ecosystem-based approaches for climate adaptation can be implemented in ways that are gender equitable and socially just, leading to positive outcomes for people and nature.

News
12th September 2024
International organisations join forces to boost South–South cooperation – with a focus on Africa SouthSouthNorth has joined the Global Landscapes Forum as a Charter Member. The organisations will address their alliance at GLF Africa 2024, the continent’s largest conference on ecological restoration this year, in Nairobi, Kenya, on the 17th September 2024.
Active
Project
Active
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.

News
6th August 2024
Launch of CDKN in Senegal seeks to accelerate inclusive climate action On the 16th July 2024, the CDKN programme was officially launched in Senegal, the first francophone country to join the programme in its third phase. Senegal joins Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Namibia as the fifth focal country in Africa, and will be led by ENDA ENERGIE.