• Gender analysis of the Paris Agreement and implications for Africa - briefing note 

  African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change (2017)

  Societies construct acceptable roles for men and women-which determines what they are expected to do, the knowledge they have, their control over power and resources, and their decision-making capacity. These gender ...
• Gender-responsive framework for implementing the Paris Agreement in Africa 

  African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change (2017-05)

  The African Union Gender Policy and forthcoming Climate Change Strategy, together present an opportunity to ensure that implementation of the Paris Agreement in Africa contributes to gender equality. The latest legally-binding ...
• Gender analysis of the Paris Agreement and implications for Africa 

  African Working Group on Gender and Climate Change (2017-04)

  The latest legally-binding outcome under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the Paris Agreement, signed at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC in December 2015, and due ...
• Strengthening evaluation capacity in organisations to improve adaptation outcomes 

  Beaulieu, Nathalie; Diouf, Aliou; Jobbins, Guy (Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2016)

  The paper draws lessons useful for building evaluation capacity and for cultivating an evaluative culture; it considers the challenges to effectively evaluating climate adaptation in Africa and to building related capacity ...
• Climate change in semi-arid Malawi : perceptions, adaptation strategies and water governance 

  Joshua, Miriam K.; Ngongondo, Cosmo; Chipungu, Fellistus; Monjerezi, Maurice; Liwenga, Emma (AOSIS Publishing, 2016-04)

  Recommendations drawn from project findings suggest development of an appropriate institutional framework to form a strong basis for equitable distribution of water for irrigation in areas most vulnerable to extreme climate ...
• Regional economic communities and climate change adaptation in Africa : background paper on lessons learned from CCAA 

  Denton, Fatima; Kituyi, Evans; Lo, Henri; Wouapi, Hervé (Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2016)

  Regional institutions have a critical role to play in supporting solutions to trans-boundary issues related to a changing climate, including adaptation. Focusing on the eight Regional Economic Communities (RECs) recognized ...
• Institutions and adaptation : lessons learned from the climate change adaptation in Africa program 

  Adjei-Nsiah, Samuel; Dieye, A.M.; El Mzouri, E.; Gueye, B.; Gueye, C. (Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2015)

  An optimal institutional framework for climate change adaptation is sometimes impeded by the nature of research, which focuses on a small number of contexts. This report synthesizes findings from a number of participatory ...
• Pathways to transformational change in the face of climate impacts : an analytical framework 

  Mapfumo, Paul; Onyango, Mary; Honkponou, Saïd K.; El Mzouri, El Houssine; Githeko, Andrew (Taylor & Francis, 2015)

  Unprecedented impacts of climate change and climate variability in the twenty-first century are likely to require transformational social, organizational and human responses. Yet, little existing empirical work examines ...
• Managing rainfall variability in arid rainfed agriculture using adaptive varieties and in-situ water harvesting 

  Babiker, Kawkab Elsir; Mohamed, Abdelhadi A.W.; Ali Babiker, Imad-eldin; Mohammed, Hussni O. (Sudan Academy Publishing and Distribution House, Khartoum, SD, 2015)

  This investigation was to establish a water harvesting technique for adaptation to rainfall variability in rainfed sorghum production and relate it to yield in Gedarif area. A field experiment was conducted for two successive ...
• Development and validation of climate and ecosystem-based early malaria epidemic prediction models in East Africa 

  Githeko, Andrew K.; Ogallo, Laban; Lemnge, Martha; Okia, Michael; Ototo, Ednah N. (BioMed Central, 2014)

  Background: Malaria epidemics remain a serious threat to human populations living in the highlands of East Africa where transmission is unstable and climate sensitive. An existing early malaria epidemic prediction model ...
• Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) final report 

  IDRC. CCAA Program (Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA), IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2012-06)

  As much as climate change variability and other physical processes, it is very often poverty – in terms of lack of resources or choices – that creates vulnerability. For example, reduced rainfall doesn’t have to be disastrous ...
• Climate Change Adaptation in Africa Program : 2010-11 in brief 

  IDRC. CCAA Program (Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA), IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2011)

  To achieve its overarching goal of building capacity for adaptation in Africa, the CCAA strategy weds participatory research, capacity strengthening, and knowledge sharing. We built this three-pronged approach recognizing ...
• Strategies 

  IDRC. CCAA Program (Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA), IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2011)

  The Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) program aims to improve the capacity of African countries to adapt to climate change in ways that benefit the most vulnerable.
• Stories from the field : weathering drought in the Greater Horn of Africa 

  IDRC. CCAA Program (Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA), IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2011)

  The Greater Horn of Africa, in the continent’s east, depends on rain-fed agriculture and is highly vulnerable to drought. Even with normal rainfall, the region does not produce enough food to meet its needs. Devastatin ...
• Stories from the field : helping African cities prepare for climate change 

  IDRC. CCAA Program (Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA), IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2011)

  According to United Nations figures, 40% of Africa’s one billion people currently live in urban areas; 60% of this group live in slums without adequate water supply and sanitation. Urbanization in Africa is occurring at ...
• Stories from the field : confronting sea level rise on Egypt's Nile Delta coast 

  IDRC. CCAA Program (Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA), IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2011)

  Focusing on a section of coastline from Gamasa to Ras El Bar, the research team is assessing social and economic vulnerabilities, building on spatial mapping of the likely physical impacts of sea level rise. The aim is to ...
• Stories from the field : addressing leishmaniasis in Tunisia's changing climate 

  IDRC. CCAA Program (Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA), IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2011)

  It is widely recognized that climate change will have major impacts on human health, by increasing weather-related disasters and changing the distribution of water- and vector-borne diseases. But our attempts to adapt ...
• Reflections : using participatory action research to manage uncertainties in adaptation 

  IDRC. CCAA Program (Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA), IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2011)

  The Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) program has supported applied research to inform adaptation policies and practices that can reduce the climate vulnerabilities of African societies. A key challenge has ...
• Reflections : making an adaptation network work for Africa 

  IDRC. CCAA Program (Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA), IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2011)

  This year, the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) program approved a second two-year phase for AfricaAdapt, the successful knowledge-sharing initiative. In its first phase, AfricaAdapt established itself as a ...
• Reflections : approaching climate change adaptation as a means to reduce poverty 

  IDRC. CCAA Program (Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA), IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2011)

  Within the developing world, where immediate needs are so pressing, it is difficult to implement adaptation to deal with future risks if it does not also support development. Since development generally focuses on reducing ...

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