Severe heat wave grips India: Authorities can draw on insights from Ahmedabad experience CDKN's Mihir Bhatt reports from Ahmedabad, in India's current heat wave zone - and reflects on how learning from CDKN's innovative partnership project in Ahmedabad could help save lives all over again.

More equality and justice in climate action Why does gender equality matter in climate related programming? This event, hosted by Sam Bickersteth and Caroline Harper will gather experts from the social development, climate change and disaster risk reduction communities.

"You cannot turn back from Paris" - Sam Bickersteth Sam Bickersteth, Chief Executive of CDKN, has led this global alliance of southern and northern organisations delivering innovative solutions for climate compatible development since 2011. Here, he talks about the Paris agreement and its implications for developing countries: where do we go from here?

What if gender became an essential, standard element of vulnerability assessments? Hosted by Oxfam, this webinar will draw on experiences from development practitioners and consider what we have learnt on the importance of integrating gender issues into Vulnerability Assessments.

Delivering Nationally Determined Contributions - An opportunity for gender mainstreaming On International Women’s Day, Ricardo Energy & Environment’s Outi Korkeala, Nidhi Mittal and Nipunika Perera review the ways in which gender issues can be factored into implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions.

The gender and climate change debate – Equal rights or uniform roles? In celebration of International Women’s Day on 8th March, Mehrunisa Malik, Learning and Knowledge Networks Associate for CDKN Asia, argues that a more sophisticated analysis is needed of women’s roles and influences in different cultures. Only then can women and men contribute fully to climate compatible development where they live.

Climate change and women - A view from Pakistan Climate change is gravely affecting women, says Syed Abubakar. He reports on an expert roundtable on ‘Gender and Climate Vulnerabilities: Future Directions for Policy Research and Action’.

New resource pack shows why gender approaches are important for climate compatible development Agnes Otzelberger introduces the Gender and Climate Change 'Key Issues Guide' by the Institute of Development Studies, which was created with CDKN support. She says gender and social inequality need to be addressed in creating climate compatible development solutions. The Guide provides insights on how to do this.

The politics of integrated planning for water, energy and food in Kenya Making decisions over water, energy and food issues in a changing climate can open opportunities for integrated thinking – and raise tensions among different interest groups. How does it work in Kenya? Barbara Schreiner of Pegasys presents initial results from her team's research.

Gender and climate change - India Pavilion at COP21 highlights work to be done Aditi Kapoor, Director Alternative Futures, recaps her experiences from an event on gender and climate change at the India Pavilion at COP21. Alternative Futures has been a partner of CDKN working on gender and climate change in India.

CDKN launches new e-book 'Mainstreaming climate compatible development' CDKN has launched a new e-book presenting insights from five years of designing and delivering climate compatible development across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. We invite your comments and suggestions.

For a safer future: Insights on climate resilience from India A new film released by CDKN with the Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group, ICLEI and TERI tells the story of how local communities and government in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India are preparing for the more frequent and damaging floods caused by climate change.