African Centre for Technology Studies

The African Center for Technology and Science is a Nairobi-based international intergovernmental science, technology and environmental policy think-tank that generates and disseminates new knowledge through policy analysis, capacity building and outreach.

ACTS has programmes on Biodiversity and Environmental Governance; Energy and Water Security; Agriculture and Food Security.

The African Centre for Technology Studies, in partnership with colleagues in Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe and South Asia are undertaking an action research, testing tools for community adaptation, knowledge generation and capacity building project on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa (CBAA) project, funded by IDRC. This three- year project is being implemented with selected vulnerable communities in Kenya, Malawi, Sudan, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.