Themes: Knowledge Brokering

Themes: Knowledge Brokering

Feature
29th March 2018
Co-producing climate knowledge - Great in theory, but how about practice? Estelle Rouhaud of the Future Climate for Africa's UMFULA project says that 'co-production' of climate knowledge sounds like a wonderful aspiration, but is far from easy to achieve in practice.
Resource
7th October 2017
ESSENTIAL: Building on local knowledge for climate compatible development Partners in the CDKN–ICLEI Subnational Learning Programme have explored a variety of approaches to identifying and leveraging local knowledge, combined with scientific data for informed decision-making and planning at local government level.
Resource
14th August 2017
Mainstreaming climate compatible development: Insights from CDKN's first seven years This flagship book draws from CDKN's experience of supporting climate-compatible development in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and provides practical recommendations on how to achieve low-carbon, climate-resilient development in low income and emerging economies.
Feature
2nd August 2017
Five lessons for communicating climate risk We share five lessons on communicating climate risk from our work with local scientists, media, policy-makers and practitioners in India, Kenya and Ethiopia through the Raising Risk Awareness (RRA) project
News
26th July 2017
Discover country leadership examples on integrating low emission action into national development LEDS GP has launched its country leadership tool, which allows users to discover how countries are integrating low emission action in their national development.
Resource
30th June 2017
CDKN Annual Report 2017 Throughout 2017, we provided guidance on the implementation of NDCs, integrating climate actions into economic sectors and supported access to finance from both public and private sources. In our Annual Report, we highlight key results from these projects across Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Resource
27th June 2017
ESSENTIAL: Six tips for funding impactful research This CDKN Essentials outlines the main lessons we have learned about commissioning through a research call model. It is aimed at other funders of research who want to influence policy, planning and practice in climate compatible development and beyond.
Feature
9th June 2017
CDKN - Reducing the environmental footprint of our publications Mairi Dupar shares lessons from CDKN’s seven years of feedback from developing country audiences about how they use our publications. She charts CDKN’s constant search for the most environmentally sustainable choices.
Resource
2nd June 2017
OUTLOOK: India Special Edition This 'Climate and Development Outlook - India Special Edition' celebrates CDKN's partnership work in India to expand the evidence base and trial new innovations in climate compatible development, and foster knowledge management solutions with success stories from our seven-year journey.
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Project
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Strengthening climate change communication towards COP20 - bringing together science, policy and journalism

The project offered a regional training workshop to journalists alongside other activities, including a regional webinar and a journalism fund to promote articles and/or investigation about climate change and development issues, linked to the importance of COP20.

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Project
Completed
Enhancing the effectiveness of Climate Knowledge Brokers

This project aimed to improve access to climate knowledge for developing country stakeholders by helping build the capacity of climate knowledge brokers.

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Project
Completed
Strengthening journalists' networks for NDC implementation in Latin America

The purpose of the project was to build and increase capacities and knowledge of Latin American journalists in order