Themes: Adaptation and resilience

Themes: Adaptation and resilience

Feature
28th February 2020
India's grandmothers harvest new social status from climate-smart farming As they learn techniques to help them get a harvest even in the face of climate pressures, rural women are winning new respect and clout. Training in climate-smart agriculture is empowering women. Roli Srivastava reports.
Feature
19th February 2020
Residents of East Africa's informal settlements can now access better climate information As more and more people live in settlements that are particularly vulnerable to extreme we
Feature
12th February 2020
Ethiopian ministries pledge greater gender focus in climate action Robi Redda of CDKN describes how Ethiopian government ministries are aiming for two cross cutting development issues: climate change and gender, to be well integrated across the country's policies and programmes.
News
7th February 2020
Apply for a United Nations Climate Change Award The UNFCCC is now taking applications for its Momentum for Change Awards, 2020. Submit your entry under one of the categories: Women for Results, for Climate Friendly Investment or Climate Neutral Now - before the 30 April deadline.
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Assessing adaptation investment opportunities for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Bangladesh

This project is exploring climate change vulnerabilities, gender-sensitive adaptation practices and potential adaptation investment options for MSMEs in Southwest coastal Bangladesh.

Feature
30th January 2020
Neighbourhood in Cartagena, Colombia will lead the way on climate adaptation Boston, a poor neighbourhood in Cartagena on the Colombian Caribbean coast, has set itself the goal of becoming the first fully-adapted neighbourhood to climate change in the region.
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Strengthening regional climate change governance through integrating gender-responsive climate action in Namibia

This project focuses on achieving climate-resilient rural and community development in Namibia by strengthening climate change governance through the integration of gender-responsive climate action into regional plans and projects.

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Empowering women and transforming gender relations in the Volta delta, Ghana

This project focuses on raising awareness around the need to increase women’s access to land through changes in inheritance rights as well as to create opportunities for adaptive livelihoods within the Sogakope and Keta communities in Ghana.

News
24th January 2020
New evidence to better inform infrastructure investments in Central and Southern Africa The four-year UMFULA research project has made substantial advances in understanding the current and future climate of central and southern Africa. Declan Conway of the Grantham Research Institute discusses how critical it is to know how climate risk may affect major infrastructural investments being planned and implemented in the region. 
Feature
23rd January 2020
RURBAN solution might be the answer for India's water management A new platform and set of tools developed by ICLEI-South Asia called ‘RURBAN Platform’ seeks to help city managers work in a more collaborative and ‘climate-smart’ way.
Resource
17th January 2020
Guide: The IPCC’s Special Report on Climate Change and Land: What’s in it for Africa? CDKN has launched a new guide which unpacks the Special Report for decision-makers in Africa: 'The IPCC's Special Report on Climate Change and Land: What's in it for Africa?'
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17th January 2020
Guide: The IPCC’s Special Report on Climate Change and Land: What’s in it for South Asia? The IPCC's Special Report on Climate Change and Land for decision-makers in South Asia - with all the headline findings they need to know about the interaction of climate change and land and the impact on societies and ecosystems.